Author Archives: Lacey Wallace

Lacey Wallace, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, earned her doctorate at Penn State University. She previously worked with D. Wayne Osgood and the PROSPER Peers Project at Penn State, studying adolescent social networks and their effects on delinquency. Specializing in quantitative methods, families and juvenile delinquency, Lacey’s research involves 1) the influence of siblings and peers on delinquency and substance use through social networks; 2) weapon carrying, gun ownership and gun acquisition behavior; and 3) the effects of intervention and policy on these processes.

Armed second amendment activists prepare to march through Olmos Park and to the front door of its City Hall to demand the resignation of Police Chief Rene Valenciano.

Gov & Politics

Could a National Buyback Program Reduce Gun Violence in America?

by Lacey Wallace August 28, 2019January 31, 2020

Commentary: Gun owners feel strongly about their identities as gun owners, making it difficult to create a strategy for taking guns off the streets.