Dr. Phil Mulvey

Associate Professor

Criminal Justice Sciences

Office

Schroeder Hall - SCH 415

Office Hours

Monday 12:30PM to 2:00PM

Office Phone

(309) 438-0640office
phone

pwmulve@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Dr. Philip Mulvey is an associate professor in the department of Criminal Justice Sciences. His academic focus is on exploring the experiences of disenfranchised individuals across the life course. Historically he has done this by conducting research with individuals who are in the mental health and criminal justice systems - essentially investigating how the systems of beneficent social control (mental health) and coercive social control (criminal justice) shape and execute policies for offenders with mental illness. His academic endeavors have evolved to consider policies for other marginalized populations too (e.g. the homeless, veterans, families of incarceration and youth sentenced to life without parole). He also works with multiple specialty courts around the state of Illinois for specialty populations. His academic work appears in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Punishment & Society, and Criminal Justice & Behavior. Before entering academia, Phil was the project manager at the Health Disparities and Public Policy program for over five years at Northwestern University. The program's primary focus was the Northwestern Juvenile Project - the first large-scale longitudinal study of mental health needs and outcomes of delinquent youth in the United States.

Current Courses

311Criminalizing Mental Illness

Teaching Interests & Areas

Research Methods (both undergraduate and graduate) Justice Policy (both undergraduate and graduate) The Criminalization of Mental Illness (undergraduate) Forensic Psychology (undergraduate) Race, Ethnicity and Justice (summers online)

Research Interests & Areas

My areas of research interest generally include the interface of mental illness and deviance, justice policy and benevolent/coercive social control.

Ph D Criminology and Criminal Justice

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

Psychology and Law Certification Degree

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

MA Counseling/Clinical Psychology

Boston College

Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts

BS Psychology

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, IL

CAST College Outstanding Researcher Award (pre-tenured category)

College of Applied Science and Technology - Illinois State University

2018

Research Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2018

Book, Chapter

Taylor, M., Mulvey, P., Russell, K., & Terpstra, B. Examining the Presenting Characteristics, Short-Term Effects, and Long Term Outcomes Associated with System-Involved Youth. Springer (2018)

Rabe-, C., Mulvey, P., & Foster, M. Crime, Injustice & Politics. Corruption, Accountability & Politics. Emerald Publishing (2017)

Journal Article

Mulvey, P., Tersptra, B., Rabe-Hemp, C., & McDermott, C. Mothering through mental illness: Exploring the experiences of motherhood for criminally involved women on mental health probation. Crime & Delinquency (2021)

Terpstra, B., & Mulvey, P. Specialty probation officers as street-level bureaucrats: Exploring how discretion is perceived and employed on a mental health caseload.. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2021)

Mulvey, P., Larson, M., & Terpstra, B. Understanding the nature and implications of romantic relationships among criminally involved individuals with mental illness. Justice Quarterly (2020)

Mulvey, P., & Larson, M. Assessing the influence of risk/need domains on probation completion among a sample of offenders with mental illness.. Journal of Crime & Justice 42.4 (2019): 462-479.

Taylor, M., Kaplan, T., Mulvey, P., & Miller, M. Perceptions of waived juvenile defendants across mental health diagnoses and demographic characteristics. International Journal of Law & Psychiatry 66.5 (2019): 1-8.

Other

Pande, A., Shafer, M., Mulvey, P., & Staples, V. Report to the Governor of Arizona's office for Children, Youth, and Families, Deivison for Substance Abuse Policy: Final Implementation Evaluation of the Arizona Department of Corrections Co-Occurring Services Pilot Project (2009)

Presentations

Moethring and Mental Illness in Criminally Involved women. American Society of Criminology. (2016)

Early termination from Severely Mentally Ill (SMI) probation: Examining predictive factors for offenders who complete SMI probation prior to the expiration of their original sentence. International Congress of Law and Mental Health. (2015)

Families coming together in prison: Peering inside the black box of visitation.. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. (2015)

Toward a meaningful, multi-sited, big-data qualitative data analysis.. Qualitative Research in Management Conference. (2014)

The impact of mental illness on women's pathways to the criminal justice system. American Society of Criminology. (2013)

Use of force, suspect resistance & police legitimacy: Examining the impact of reciprocal aggression. American Society of Criminology. (2013)

Coming of age in the military after 9/11: Offending, substance use, and relationship instability among a new generation of veterans.. American Society of Criminology. (2012)

The implications of age: An examination of charging decisions in cases of sexual assault involving minors.. American Society of Criminology. (2011)

Re-Entry programming for offenders with co-occurring disorder: Assessing impacts with a mixed methods approach. Annual College of Problems on Drug Dependence. (2010)

The formation of organizational culture involving substance abusing probationers: An analysis in community corrections. American Society of Criminology. (2010)

Grants & Contracts

Exploring the Lives of Veterans in the Criminal Justice System. National Institute of Justice. Federal. (2017)