Matthew Gricius

Matthew Gricius is a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He is passionate about research in corrections, quantitative criminology, theory, and white-collar crime. He originally was interested in computer engineering, but he became passionate about criminology after taking a sociology class. His thesis examined the impact of having minor children on reentry outcomes for parents returning to the community from prison. He is currently working on his dissertation which seeks to integrate his passion for criminology and computers by investigating the prospect of utlizing machine learning for systematic social observation of disorder cues using drone photography.