Cody Jorgensen, Ph.D.

Doctorate of Philosophy
Criminology, University of Texas at Dallas

Dissertation: Badges, bongs, bookies, and brothels: Police officers’ attitudes toward vice.

Chair: Dr. John Worrall

Committee Members: Dr. Alex Piquero, Dr. Nicole Piquero, Dr. Robert Taylor

Master of Science
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

Thesis: Public perceptions matter: A procedural justice study examining an arrestee sample.

Chair: Dr. Justin Ready

Committee Members: Dr. Michael White, Dr. Charles Katz

Bachelor of Science
Forensic Science, Weber State University Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science
Anthropology, Weber State University

Associate Professor, Boise State University

Assistant Professor, Boise State University

Instructor/Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas

Research Assistant, Caruth Police Institute/University of Texas at Dallas

Survey Interviewer, The Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, Arizona State University

Intern, Weber County Crime Scene Unit

• Drug Policy
• Gun Violence
• Biosocial and Developmental Criminology
• Policing and Forensics
• Quantitative Methods

• Comer, B., Jorgensen, C., and Carter, D. (2021) “Reported crime frequencies: A statistical comparison of state annual crime reports and the UCR.” American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1-25.
• Jorgensen, C. and Wells, J. (2021) “Is marijuana really a gateway drug? A nationally representative test of the marijuana gateway hypothesis using a propensity score matching design.” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-21.
• Jorgensen, C and Harper, A. (2020). “Examining the effect of marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington on clearance rates: A quasi-xperimental design.” Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-22.
• Walsh, A., Jorgensen, C., and Wells, J. (2020) “Evolution and Punishment.” Sage Handbook on Evolutionary Psychology, Thousand Oaks: CA.
• Walsh, A., and Jorgensen, C. (2020) Criminology: The Essentials, 4th Ed. Sage, Thousand Oaks: CA.
• Jorgensen, C. (2018). “Badges and bongs: Police officers’ attitudes toward drugs.” Sage Open Oct. 2018.
• Jorgensen, C. (2018). “Badges and brothels: Police officers’ attitudes toward prostitution.”
  Frontiers in Sociology, 3:16.
• Walsh, A., and Jorgensen, C. (2018). “Evolutionary theory and criminology.” Oxford Handbook on Evolution, Biology, and Society. Oxford: UK.
• Walsh, A., and Jorgensen, C. (2017). Criminology: The Essentials, 3rd Ed. Sage, Thousand Oaks: CA.
• Jorgensen, C., Anderson, N., and Barnes, J.C. (2016). “Bad brains: Crime and drug abuse through a neurocriminological perspective.” American Journal of Criminal Justice, 41: 47-69.
• Barnes, J.C., Jorgensen, C., Pacheco, D., and Teneyck, M. (2014). “The biosocial explanation: The puzzling relationship between age and criminal behavior: A biosocial critique of the criminological status quo.” In Beaver, K., Barnes, J.C., and Boutwell, B (Eds.), The Nurture versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.
• Barnes, J.C., Jorgensen, C., Boutwell, B., Beaver, K., and Wright, J. (2014).“Arrest prevalence in a national sample of adults: The role of gender and race.” American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1-9.

• Jorgensen, Cody. (2022) “Idahoan’s expectations of police performance on solving crimes.” Idaho Policy Institute.
• Jorgensen, Cody. (2019) “How marijuana legalization would benefit the criminal justice system.” The Blue Review, Retrieved from: https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/1919/12/30/how-marijuana-legalization-would- benefit-the-criminal-justice-system/
• Jorgensen, Cody. (2017). “Is marijuana really a gateway drug?” The Blue Review, Retrieved from: http://thebluereview.org/gateway-drug/

• Jorgensen, C. “An empirical assessment of constitutional carry laws in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, and Wyoming.” Violence and Victims.
• Harper, A. and Jorgensen C. “Crime in a time of cannabis: Estimating the effect of legalizing marijuana on crime rates in Colorado and Washington using the synthetic control method.” Journal of Drug Issues.
• Henry, D., Shumar, M., Jorgensen, C., and Hampikian, G. “Attorney type impact on case outcomes in Ada County, Idaho: Public defenders, private attorneys, and pro se defendants.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

• Wells, J., Jorgensen, C., and Comer, B. “MAOA, 5-HTTLPR, and alcohol use outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of gene-environment interaction effects.”
• Jorgensen, C. and Wells, J. “A genetically sensitive test of the marijuana gateway hypothesis.”
• Comer, B., and Jorgensen, C. “Bringing the firepower: Examining the role muzzle energy of ammunition in the outcome of mass shootings.”
• Walsh, A., and Jorgensen, C. Criminology: The Essentials 5th Ed.
• Jorgensen, C. Gun Violence: The Essentials. (Book Proposal: Sage)
• Jorgensen, C. “Crime, drug abuse, and offending from a neurocriminology perspective.” Routledge Handbook on Disability, Crime, and Justice.

American Criminal Justice Society Meeting: Las Vegas, Nevada.
Harper, A., and Jorgensen, C., “Crime in the time of cannabis.”

Western Association of Criminal Justice Meeting: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Wells, J., Jorgensen, C., and Comer, B. “MAOA, 5-HTTLPR, and alcohol use outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of gene-environment interaction effects.”

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana. Jorgensen, Cody. “A nationally representative test of the marijuana gateway hypothesis: A propensity score matching approach.”

• Western Association of Criminal Justice Meeting: Las Vegas, Nevada. Boise State University Roundtable: Working with local agencies.
• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting: Denver, Colorado. Jorgensen, C., Barnes, J.C., and Walsh, A. “The dopaminergic interaction effects on violence over the life-course.”

• American Society of Criminology Meeting: San Francisco, California. Jorgensen, Cody. “Give us all your (drug) money: The curious link between asset forfeiture and vice attitudes among police.”
• Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice Meeting: South Padre Island, Tx. Jorgensen, Cody. “Police officers’ attitudes toward vice crime.”

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting: Dallas, Texas. Jorgensen, Cody. “Religiosity and squeaky clean behavior.”

• American Society of Criminology Meeting: Chicago, Illinois. Jorgensen, Cody. “Getting arrestees to cooperate with the police.”
• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Meeting: New York City, New York. Jorgensen, Cody. “Public perceptions matter: A procedural justice study examining an arrestee population.”

• Introduction to Police
• Introduction to Police (Online class)
• Communities and Crime
• Police and Society
• Police and Society (Online class)
• Introduction to Crime and Criminology
• Statistics
• Statistics (Online class)
• Senior Seminar in Biosocial Criminology (Online class, Quality Matters certified)
• Senior Seminar in Biosocial Criminology
• Theories of Crime
• Theories of Crime (Online class)
• Gun Violence (Online class)

• Law and Social Control
• Theories of Crime
• Statistics
• Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
• Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences (Online class)

Peer Reviewer for Police Quarterly, Criminal Justice Studies, Criminal Justice Review, Journal of Experimental Criminology, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Police Practice and Research, Crime and Delinquency, Substance Use and Misuse.

Review Editor for Frontiers in Sociology: Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology (2015-2019)

Drug Overdoses in Idaho Research Committee – 2021

• Boise State University School of Public Service Working Group on New Programs – 2016
• Faculty Search Committee (two positions) – 2016
• Faculty Advisor for Lambda Alpha Epsilon – 2016 to 2019
• Graduate PAR Committee – 2017 to 2018
• Undergraduate PAR Committee – 2018 to 2019
• Online CJ Program Development Committee (feasibility) – Spring 2019
• Online CJ Program Development Committee (design) – Fall 2019
• Online CJ Degree Committee – Spring 2020 to current
• School of Public Service Promotion and Tenure Committee – 2019 to current
• School of Public Service Curriculum Committee – 2019 to current
• CJ Faculty Search Committee – 2021
• Faculty Advocate for BroncoLife – 2021 to current
• Criminal Justice Representative to the School of Public Service PhD Program – 2022 to current
• Criminal Justice Scholarship Committee – 2022 to current

• Jesenia Robles – McNair Scholar Faculty Mentor 2016
• Eva Fontaine – Thesis Committee 2016 to 2018
• Benjamin Comer – Thesis Chair 2018 to 2019
• Kylene Collette – Thesis Committee 2019
• Stephen Keely – Project Chair 2018 to 2021
• Chris Lavelle – Project Committee 2018 to 2020
• Karen Armenta – Thesis Committee 2019 to 2020
• Terry Wilson – Project Committee Chair 2021
• Jaime Negrete – Thesis Committee 2021
• Dave Henry – Thesis Committee 2021 to 2022
• Audry Byrum – Thesis Committee 2022 to current
• Abby Neef – Thesis Committee 2022 to current
• Dave Henry – Dissertation Committee 2022 to current
• Megan Orozco – Thesis Committee 2022 to current

• December 2015, Boise State Public Radio
• January 2016, Boise State Public Radio
• February 2021, Allure Magazine
• March 2021, KMVT – Twin Falls
• July 2021, Idaho Press
• January 2022, Coffee or Die Media
• July 2022, Idaho Press

• January 2016, Boise State Students for Sensible Drug Policy – Marijuana Policy Town Hall
• April 2017, Boise State School of Public Service – Research on the Marijuana Gateway Effect
• October 2018, Boise Hempfest – Cannabis Town Hall Expert Panel Member

• American Society of Criminology
• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
• Western Association of Criminal Justice