Jon'a Meyer, Associate Professor of Criminology (B.A. California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D. University of California at Irvine) has published on many aspects of criminal justice, including judicial attitudes and bias in sentencing, Native American legal systems, prison industry and reform, community oriented policing, infanticide and neonaticide, and issues in children's courtroom testimony. Dr. Meyer is the author of Doing Justice in the People's Court: Sentencing by Municipal Court Judges and Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory Suggestibility or Obedience to Authority? She is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship for her research of Navajo courts.

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Books:
Meyer, J. (1997). Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory, Suggestibility or Obedience to Authority? New York: Haworth Press.

Meyer, J. and Jesilow, P. (1997). 'Doing Justice' in the People's Court: Sentencing by Municipal Court Judges. New York: State University of New York Press.

Meyer, J. and Grant, D. (2003). The Courts in Our Criminal Justice System. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Journal articles and book chapters:

Meyer, J. (in press). Unintended consequences for the youngest victims: The role of law in encouraging neonaticide in the 17th to 20th centuries. Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 18(4).

Meyer, J. (2005). Bi_ háí'áázh ("I am his brother"): Can peacemaking work with juveniles? In, M.O. Nielsen and J.W. Zion (Eds.), Navajo Nation Peacemaking: A Collection, University of Arizona Press.

Meyer, J. (2004. Home confinement with electronic monitoring. In, G. Caputo, Intermediate Sanctions. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press.

Meyer, J. (2002). Restoration and the criminal justice system. In, L.J. Moriarty, Controversies in Victimology. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson.

Meyer, J. (2002). "It is a gift from the Creator to keep us in harmony": Original (versus alternative) dispute resolution on the Navajo Nation. International Journal of Public Administration, 25, 1379-1401.

Meyer, J. and Bogdan, G. (2001). Co-habitation and co-optation: Some intersections between Native American and Euroamerican legal systems in the nineteenth century. American Transcendental Quarterly, 15, 257-273.

Meyer, J. (2001). Strange science: Subjective criteria in parole decisions. Journal of Crime and Justice, 24, 43-70.

Jesilow, P.J. and J. Meyer. (2001). The effect of police misconduct on public attitudes: A quasi-experiment. Journal of Crime and Justice, 24, 109-121.

Meyer, J. and Zion, J. (2000). Old solutions to new problems: Crime control in the Navajo Nation. In, G. Barak (Ed.), Crime and Crime Control: A Global View. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 103-115.

Franco, M.L., Gray, T., Gregware, P. and Meyer, J. (1999). Dependency, cultural identification, and elder abuse among Americans of Mexican heritage. Journal of Elder Abuse, 11(3), 37-51.

Meyer, J. with Bogdan, G. (1999). The elders were our textbooks: The importance of traditional stories in social control. In, J. Ferrell and N. Websdale (Eds.), Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance and Control. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 25-46.

Meyer, J. (1997/1998). Computerized slideshows: A modern extension of accelerated learning techniques. Journal of Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 22(3), 3-32.

Meyer, J. (1998). Tradition and technology: Computers in criminal justice. In, L.J. Moriarty and D.L. Carter, Criminal Justice Technology in the 21st Century. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Publishing, 3-16.

Meyer, J. (1998). History repeats itself: Restorative justice in Native American communities. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 14, 42-57.

Meyer, J. and Jesilow, P. (1996). Obedience to authority: Possible effects on children's testimony. Psychology, Crime & Law, 3, 81-95.

Meyer, J. and Grant, D. (1996). The privatization of community corrections: Panacea or Pandora's box? In G.L. Mays and T. Gray (Eds.), Privatization and the Provision of Correctional Services: Context and Consequences. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 89-102.

Meyer, J. and Gray, T. (1996). Peer coaching: An innovation in teaching. Teaching in the Community Colleges (Electronic) Journal, 1(3), 1-12.

Meyer, J. and Jesilow, P. (1996). Research on Bias in Judicial Sentencing. New Mexico Law Review, 26, 107-131.

Jesilow, P., Meyer, J and Namazzi, N. (1995). Public attitudes toward the police. American Journal of the Police, 19(2), 67-88.

Meyer, J. and Geis, G. (1994). Psychological research on child witnesses in abuse cases: Fine answers to mostly wrong questions. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 11, 209-220.

McMahan, S., Ericson, J. and Meyer, J. (1994). Depressive symptomatology in women and residential proximity to high-voltage transmission lines. American Journal of Epidemiology, 139, 58-63.

Meyer, J. and Jesilow, P. (1993). 'Doing justice': Judicial attitudes toward community service sentences. The IARCA Journal on Community Corrections, 5(5), 10-12.

McMahan, S., Ericson, J. and Meyer, J. (1993). Residential proximity to high voltage transmission lines and depressive symptomatology. In M. Blank (Ed.), Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine. San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 453-456.

Other Publications:

Rhodes, H. and Meyer, J. with Gloria, G. (2001). Sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination: A scientist's lifetime endeavor at defeating the terrible three. Multicultural Diversity, 7(3) 1-2,6-7.

Meyer, J. (2001). The hunt for Leges Henrici and restorative justice, Navajo style. The Forum, 9(1), 1-5.

Meyer, J. and Bogdan, G. (2001). Our "First Education." In, L. Berry, A Pilgrimage of Color: 2001 National Conference, Social Science Monograph Series. Morehead, KY: Morehead State University, 205-228.

Meyer, J. (2000). Infanticide and neonaticide. In, D. Luckenbill and D. Peck (eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, volume 2, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis publishers, 294-296. C.D. Bryant, editor-in-chief.

Meyer, J. and Paul, R. (1999). Fighting a new naayéé': Domestic violence on the Navajo Reservation. The Forum, 7(2), 4-7.

Meyer, J. (1998). Peacemaking as restorative routine. The Forum, 6(2), 16-17.

Meyer, J. (1995). Mexico's La Mesa Penitentiary: An Experiment in Humanity. American Jails, 9(3), 101-104.

*Reprinted as "Readaptation: Work and family in a Mexican prison village" in T. Gray (Ed.). (2001). Exploring Corrections: A Book of Readings. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 185-189.

Chew, K., McCleary, R., Sandeen, B. and Meyer, J. (1991). Who cares about public schools? American Demographics, 13(5), 38-39.

2000 Provost's Teaching Award, Rutgers University
1998 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council
1997 Faculty Fellow, Rutgers University Teaching Excellence Center
1993 American Sociological Association Dissertation Support Funds
1993 President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California
1993 Meritorious Service Award (Disabled Student Services), UC Irvine
1989-93 NIMH Training Grant- American Sociological Association
1990-91 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UC Irvine
1990-91 Cross Cultural Center Fellow, UC Irvine
1988 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award of Achievement, California State University, Dominguez Hills