Matthew Vanden Bosch, Ph.D.
Matthew Vanden Bosch, Ph.D.
Dr. Matthew Vanden Bosch is an assistant professor in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on hate crimes, scale development, sexual violence, and public opinion on crime and criminal justice. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University. He has published in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Criminal Justice, among others. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Publications:
Vanden Bosch, M. (2025). Communities collide: Hate crime myth acceptance in the campus context. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287251330778. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287251330778.
Vanden Bosch, M., Lantz, M.R., & Mills, J.M. (2026). Addressing ceremonious compliance and problematic agency-level hate crime reporting: Charting progress, promises, and policy possibilities. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 37(1), 73-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/08874034251372852.
Vanden Bosch, M., & Lantz, B. (2025). Differential compliance with the reporting of hate crime statistics as a function of state laws. Journal of Criminal Justice, 98, 102415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102415.
Lantz, B., Vanden Bosch, M., Mills, J.M., Wenger, M.R., & Malcom, Z.T. (2026). Hate-motivated violence in America: Conceptualizing an expanded and updated typology using latent class analysis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 42(1), 113-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-025-09619-5.
Vanden Bosch, M., & Chouhy, C. (2025). Creating punitiveness: Examining the impact of election proximity on public punitiveness. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 50(6), 1274-1301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-025-09823-w.