My research in cultural and historical criminology examines images of rural people, places and crime in popular culture. I also explore media portrayals of girls, women, and criminality in the media. My current work combines criminology and archival research to examine a string of arsons that broke out in my hometown of Greenland, NH in the late 1940s.
Hayden, K.E. (2023). Cultural criminology and representations of rural crime. In Harkness, Petersen, Bowden, Pedersen and Donnermeyer (Eds.) The encyclopedia of rural crime. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
Hayden, K. E. (2021). The rural primitive in American popular culture: All too familiar. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Hayden, K. E. (2020). Society and law. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
To get a sense of how much Merrimack men's basketball's reputation has grown on the national stage, all you have to do is look at the response to head coach Joe Gallo's social media post teasing plans for his renowned "Make Chaos" zone defense.
