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Marisa Booty

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Criminal Justice

      • Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae  

Expertise

Public Health And The Criminal Legal System, Substance Use Disorder Treatment And Recovery, Incarceration And Reentry, Gun Violence Prevention, Photovoice, Egocentric Network Analysis

Biography

Marisa Booty is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at Temple University whose research focuses on the intersection of public health and the criminal legal system. The goals of public safety and social control vs. public health and harm reduction are often at odds, and she is interested in how communities prioritize health given institutional constraints across the levels of the socioecological model (e.g., individual, interpersonal, community).

Marisa's research examines the health outcomes of individuals during the reentry period given the cross-system involvement and networks in which these individuals are enmeshed. Recently, she has examined the ways in which formal (e.g., incarceration) and informal (e.g., family and friends) networks influence substance use disorder recovery. Prior to her doctoral program, she worked as a research data analyst for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence solutions, where she collaborated with academics and community members on research related to gun violence reduction. Marisa holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kentucky and M.H.S. in mental health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Selected Publications

  • Booty, M., Culbertson, M., Taylor, M., Heise, D., Stone, H., Kommer, K.L., Gulley, J., Hart, J., Nentwick, C., & McGladrey, M. Applying Photovoice to Uncover Fundamental Causes of Health Inequality in Local Health Contexts. (2026) Frontiers in Public Health, 14, 1737022.
  • Booty, M.D., Richardson, M.K., Jackson, D.B., & Mattingly, D.T. (2026). Factors associated with handgun carriage among US adolescents, 2021–2022. Preventive Medicine Reports, 103426.
  • Booty, M.D., Olvera, R., Balvanz, P., Oser, C.B., Shouse, A., & McGladrey, M. (2025). “I’m not a bad mom, I’m a sick mom”: Using Photovoice to examine parental recovery narratives given institutional constraints. Sociology of Health & Illness, 47(5), e70056.
  • Balvanz, P., Olvera, R.G., Booty, M., McSwiggan, J., Damato-MacPherson, C., Ellison, S., Farmer, A., Klingler, K., Kuntz, A., Lewis, N., Oser, C.B., Martinez, L.S., Stitzer, S., Surratt, H., Yamoah, O., Berkshire, A., Carter, T., Campbell, K., Dynes, S., Gealy, B., Harris, F., Herrington,  B., Matthews, S., Myers, D., Rapier, C., Shouse, A., Szelagowski, S., McGladrey, M. (2025). A participatory Photovoice investigation of community assets, barriers, and opportunities to curb the opioid epidemic. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 176, 209741 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209741.
  • McGladrey, M., Booty, M., Stitzer, S., Knudsen, H.K., Walsh, S.L., Goetz, M., Mattingly, H., Lofwall, M., Fanucchi, L., Oller, D., Fallin-Bennet, A., & Oser, C.B. (2025) The importance of contextually specific support relationships in implementing programs to link people to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment during reentry from county jails. Health & Justice, 13(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-025-00330-y.
  • Booty, M.D., Harp, K., Batty, E., Knudsen, H.K., Staton, M., & Oser, C.B. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to the use of medication for opioid use disorder within the criminal justice system: Perspectives from clinicians. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2023.209051.
  • Booty, M., O’Dwyer, J., Webster, D., McCourt, A., & Crifasi, C. (2019). Describing a “mass  shooting”: the role of databases in understanding burden. Injury Epidemiology, 6, 1-8, 8, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-019-0226-7.
  • Booty, M.D., Williams, R.G., & Crifasi, C.K. (2019). Evaluation of a Crisis Intervention Team Pilot Program: Results from Baltimore, MD. Community Mental Health Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00474-w.

Courses Taught

  • CJ 3102