Jhon A. Pupo, Ph.D.

Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor

Chilton Hall 273G

940-565-4971

Jhon.Pupo@unt.edu

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About

Dr. Jhon Pupo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at UNT. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University in 2025. Dr. Pupo’s research focuses on the juvenile justice system, the correlates of juvenile (re)offending, and the role of community context in producing variation in crime and justice-system outcomes. His past research has examined racial and ethnic disparities across multiple stages of the juvenile justice system, the impact of county political and religious contexts on juvenile court outcomes, and the link between concentrated disadvantage, co-offenders, and violent incidents involving firearms. His forthcoming research examines the extent to which the community ethnic context contributes to ethnic disparities in juvenile court outcomes and whether the causes of school violence differ from those of community (out-of-school) violence. 

 
Dr. Pupo’s work has appeared in numerous outlets, including Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime & Delinquency, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. His teaching interests include courts and punishment, juvenile justice and delinquency, research methods, and criminological theory.