Connie Hassett-Walker

Connie Hassett-Walker completed her doctorate in criminal justice at Rutgers University in 2007. She also holds a Master's of Public Administration (concentration: public policy) from the Wagner Graduate School at New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts in French from Rutgers University. Before coming to Norwich University in July 2020, Dr. Hassett-Walker taught at Kean University in New Jersey and worked as a research associate at the Violence Institute of New Jersey.

Her work has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. She has also written for the scholarly magazine The Conversation and for The Washington Post. Dr. Hassett-Walker authored two books, most recently Guns on the Internet: Online Gun Communities, First Amendment Protections, and the Search for Common Ground on Gun Control (2018, Routledge/Taylor & Francis).

In 2021 and 2022, Hassett-Walker received Vermont Biomedical Research Network research grants. In 2021, she received at $25,000 Pilot Award for her project, “Impact of Criminal Conviction and Incarceration on Long-Term Health & Substance Use.” In 2022, she received a $71,140 Project Award for her project “What is the Impact of COVID-19 on Substance Abusers’ Recovery?”

Hassett-Walker, C & Shadden, M. (2020) Life course transitions in smoking behavior subsequent to arrest: Race, ethnicity and gender differences among a U.S. sample. Tobacco Use Insights, 13, 1-12.

Hassett-Walker, C. (2019). “What if my parents get deported?” Hispanic youths’ feelings about the Trump Presidency. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 17(3), 254-268.

Hassett-Walker, C. (2018). Guns on the Internet: Online Gun Communities, First Amendment Protections, and the Search for Common Ground on Gun Control. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.