Suraiya H. Shammi

Graduate Research Assistant

Guilty pleas, Miranda rights, Procedural justice, Police interrogation

Suraiya Shammi is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. Her research interests include legal decision-making, focusing on guilty plea, Miranda rights, procedural justice, and police interrogation.

Selected Publications

Redlich, A. D., Zottoli, T., Dezember, A., Schneider, R., Catlin, M., Shammi, S. (2022). Emerging issues in the psycho-legal study of guilty pleas. In D. DeMatteo & K. Scherr (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Shammi, S., & Beichner‐Thomas, D. (2023). Rape and Sexual Assault as Crimes. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 1-3.

Teasdale, B., Harris, M. N., Bradley, M., Shammi, S. H., & Ivanich, J. D. (2022). Adult-Onset and Adolescent-Limited Suicidal Ideation: A Development Approach to Suicide. J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare, 49, 25.

Recent Presentations

• Shammi, S., Redlich, A.D., & Katelyn S., (November 2022). Decision Making During a Police Encounter. Paper presented at the Annual conference at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Drummond C.B. & Shammi, S., (April 2022). Prosecutorial Discretionary Power Through the Lens of Institutional Logics and Legal Endogeneity Theory. Paper presented at Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference.

• Shammi, S., Redlich, A.D., & Katelyn S., (March 2022). Decision Making During a Police Encounter. Paper presented at the Annual conference at the American Psychology-Law Society, Denver, Colorado.

• Shammi, S., Dezember, A., Redlich, A.D., & Quas, J. A. (March 2021). Impact of Mental Health and Intelligence on Knowing, Intelligent and Voluntary Plea Decision-Making. American Psychology-Law Society Virtual Poster Session.