Dr. Myunghoon Roh

Areas of Expertise

• Criminology theory, juvenile delinquency, correction, comparative criminology research, legal reaction to AI, human microbiome on criminal offending.

Education

• B.A. in English, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (2003)
• Master of Public Administration, Brown University (2009)
• Ph.D. in criminology and justice policy, Northeastern University (2017)

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What's My Why?

In my first criminology theory class at Northeastern University in 2011, I realized that most contemporary criminological theories had been proposed and developed by white male criminologists. From the perspective of an immigrant Ph.D. student, this seemed absurd, as crime occurs everywhere, at any time, across the world. Since then, I have been testing the generalizability and applicability of criminological theories to delinquent behaviors among South Korean youths, Caribbean youths and youths in European countries. My most recent study tested Agnew’s (2005) general theory of crime and delinquency on deviant behaviors among Albanian youth. 

Professional Experience

As a comparative criminologist testing the generalizability and applicability of theories, any country with any cultural heritage serves as my research site. In line with this, I visited nine countries in the Western Balkans - including Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania - in July 2024 to collaborate with researchers. During my visits, I met with government officials, law school professors, criminologists, psychologists and U.S. embassy personnel in each country. My office is the world, and the researchers I meet along the way are my colleagues.

Selected Publications

Dhamija, S., Yadav, T. P., Lee, J., Singh, H., & Roh, M. (Eds.). (2025). Criminological Analyses on Global Honor Killing. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-7240-1

Cho, S., Nolasco, C., & Roh, M. (2024). On the Number and Pattern of Developmental Trajectories of Delinquency Among Korean Male Adolescents: Testing the Generalizability of Agnew’s General Theory of Crime and Delinquency. Deviant Behavior, 1–19. (https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2405934)

Gomez-Baya, D., Martin-Barrado, A.D., Muñoz-Parralo, M., Roh, M., Garcia-Moro, F.J., & Mendoza, R. (2023). “The 5Cs of Positive Youth Development and Risk Behaviors in a Sample of Spanish Emerging Adults: A Partial Mediation Analysis of Gender Differences”. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 13(11), 2410-2427 (https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/13/11/170)

Roh, M., Cho, Nolasco, Kim, Kim, & Gentle-Genitty. (2022) “The Impact of Life Domains on Delinquent Behaviors in the Five Caribbean Countries: A partial Test of Agnew's General Theory of Crime and Delinquency”. Violence and Victims, Vol. 37, No.1, pp.3-25, ISSN: 1945-7073 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-20-00206)

Lee, B., Jeong, S., & Roh, M. (2018) “Association between Body Mass Index and Health Outcomes Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Traditional and Cyber Bullying Victimization”. BMC Public Health, Vol. 18, No.1, pp.674, ISSN: 1471-2458 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5390-0)