Department of Criminal Justice
- Army ROTC
- Women's & Gender Studies
- School of Communication
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Lab
- Department of English
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Department of Criminal Justice
- Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Psychology
- SMART Lab
- Department of History
- Department of Political Science
- Center for Police Practice, Policy and Research
- Sociology
- Law
- Wicked Initiatives
Dr. Stacey Clifton
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
INTERNSHIP COORDINATOR

BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech
- M.S., Trident University International
- M.S., Radford University
- B.S., Radford University
- A.A.S., Patrick Henry Community College
Dr. Clifton joined the Radford University faculty in 2022.
INTERESTS
Dr. Clifton’s research investigates the impact of the police subculture on the development of coping strategies among law enforcement using social network analysis. Other areas of interest include police socialization, wellbeing of law enforcement, drugs and the criminal justice system, and criminological theory.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Clifton presented findings from her research on the development of coping strategies among police recruits at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in March 2022 and at the Southern Criminal Justice Association conference in Daytona Beach, Florida in September 2021. Dr. Clifton has also recently published in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology and in the American Journal of Criminal Justice.