Melissa Hamilton

Experience

• –present
  Visiting Criminal Law Scholar, University of Houston Law Center

Education

• 2006 
  University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D
• 1989 
  University of Texas School of Law, J.D.

Publications

• 2015
  Back to the Future: The Influence of Criminal History on Risk Assessment, 20 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 75
• 2015
  Adventures in Risk: Predicting Violent and Sexual Recidivism in Sentencing Law, 47 Arizona State Law Journal 1
• 2015
  The Reliability of Assault Victims’ Immediate Accounts: Evidence from Trauma Studies, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 269
• 2015
  Risk and Needs Assessment: Constitutional and Ethical Challenges, 52 American Criminal Law Review 231
• 2014
  McSentencing: Mass Federal Sentencing and the Law of Unintended Consequences, 35 Cardozo Law Review 2199
• 2014
  Prison-by-Default: Challenging the Presumption of Prison in Federal Sentencing, 51 Houston Law Review 1271
• 2014
  Sentencing Policy Adjudication and Empiricism, 30 Georgia State Law Journal 375
• 2013
  Adjudicating Sex Crimes as Mental Disease, 33 Pace Law Review 536
• 2012
  The Child Pornography Crusade and its Net Widening Effect, 33 Cardozo Law Review 1679
• 2012
  Reinvigorating Actus Reus: The Case for Involuntary Actions by Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 16 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 340
• 2011
  The Efficacy of Severe Child Pornography Sentencing: Empirical Validity or Political Rhetoric?, 22 Stanford Law & Policy Review 545
• 2011
  Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence, 26 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1559
• 2011
  Public Safety, Individual Liberty, and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws, 83 Temple Law Review 697
• 2009
  Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence ,

Professional Memberships

• American Psychological Association
• American Psychology-Law Association
• State Bar of Texas