Personal profile
About
Dr. Webster joined the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University Chicago in Fall 2018. She studies court operations and courtroom workgroup decision making at every stage of processing, but particularly postconviction. Her research, “A Postconviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration,” which explores prosecutors’ decision making in wrongful conviction cases, was funded by the National Institute of Justice. Her current research projects include defendants’ experiences of bond court, and exonerees’ perceptions of their postconviction legal process. She is a former communications professional at the Innocence Project, and an alum of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.
Research Interests
- Miscarriage of Justice
- Criminal Justice Policy
- Courts
- Corrections
- Law and society
- Theories of crime
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Crime and the Media
- Gender and Crime
- Race and Crime
Disciplines
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
Research output
- 11 Article
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“Court Can Happen Anywhere”: Courtroom Workgroup Members’ Perceptions of the Challenges and Opportunities of a Transformed Workplace
Webster, E., Huebner, B. M., Early, A. M. & Torres, L. C., Nov 2023, In: Criminal Justice and Behavior. 50, 11, p. 1737-1756 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Satan’s Minions’ and ‘True Believers’: How Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Employ Quasi-Religious Rhetoric and What It Suggests About Lawyering Culture
Webster, E. H., Powell, K., Lageson, S. E. & Baćak, V., Apr 22 2022, In: Justice System Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Postconviction Workgroup: Cooperation Between Adversaries in Exoneration Cases
Webster, E., Oct 2022, In: Criminal Justice Policy Review. 33, 8, p. 870-890 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet
Lageson, S., Webster, E. H. & Sandoval, J., Jan 29 2021, In: Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners
de Rassenfosse, G., Griffiths, W. E., Jaffe, A. B. & Webster, E., Dec 14 2020, In: Journal of Law Economics & Organization.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review