Attleboro Native Bryana Killion Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/09/2012)(readMedia)-- Attleboro native Bryana Killion will be one of 50 students from Stonehill College working with faculty members at the College this summer on research projects through the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. The SURE Program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

Killion, a junior psychology and criminology double major at Stonehill, along with one other student, will work with Ann Marie Rocheleau, assistant professor of Sociology and Criminology, on The Relationship between Prisoner's Activities and Serious Prison Misconduct and Testing Self-Control Theory on Prison Misbehavior and Violence.

These studies strive to determine whether prisoner misconduct and violence are related to other factors, namely participation in prison activities or level of self-control. Killion will use data collected from prisoners and staff members during 2009 and 2010 in their analysis. The intended result of this study is the submission of research articles to a peer-reviewed journal in the field as well as the presentation of the findings at the New England Sociological Association or Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences conferences.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 17th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. SURE Scholars will engage in weekly meetings to discuss the progress of their projects and other topics of general interest, and will be paid a stipend for their full-time service. All SURE Scholars will present summaries of their summer's work at an all-campus poster session in the early fall.

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