Robert T. Perdue

• Green Criminology
• Environmental Justice
• Cybercrime
• Mass Incarceration
• Appalachia

• Ph.D. in Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
• M.S. in Sociology, Virginia Tech
• B.A. in History, Virginia Tech

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2023. “Trashing Appalachia: Coal, Prisons and Whiteness in a Region of Refuse.” Punishment & Society 25(1), 21-41.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Who Needs the Dark Web?: Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 46(6), 1006-1017.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry: From Roots to Repercussions.” Critical Criminology 29, 897-913.

Perdue, Robert Todd and James Hawdon. 2021. “Predicting the Emergence of Novel Psychoactive Substances with Big Data.” In, Big Data in Psychiatry and Neurology. Edited by Ahmed Moustafa. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Perdue, Robert Todd and James Hawdon. 2019. “Gateway or Cul de Sac? Using Big Data to Assess Legal Recreational Marijuana and Changes in the Use of ‘Hard’ Drugs.” Sociation18(2), 20-28.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2018. “Linking Environmental and Criminal Injustice: The Mining to Prison Pipeline in Central Appalachia.” Environmental Justice 11(5): 177-182.

Perdue, Robert Todd, James Hawdon and Kelly M. Thames. 2018. “Can Big Data Predict the Rise of Novel Drug Abuse?” Journal of Drug Issues 48(4): 508-518.

Perdue, Robert Todd and Kenneth Sanchagrin. 2016. “Imprisoning Appalachia: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Prison Development.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 23(2): 210-223.

Perdue, Robert Todd and Christopher McCarty. 2015. “Unearthing a Network of Resistance: Media Analysis of the Anti-Strip Mining Movement in Central Appalachia.” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 66: 35-61.

• 2012-2013 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Law and Social Sciences Section ($19,152)