Sylwia J. Piatkowska received her Ph.D. in Sociology from State University of New York at Albany. Her areas of interest include hate crime, immigration and crime, and both international and comparative criminology.
Crime and Deviance | Hate Crime | Comparative and International Criminology | Immigration and Crime | Advanced Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., 2016, Sociology, State University of New York at Albany
B.A. /M.A., 2006, Sociology, Opole University
The Consequences and Impacts of Hate Crime and Post-Victimization Experiences: The Longitudinal Hate Crime Victimization Survey (LHCVS). National Institute of Justice ($942,512), Co-Principal Investigator, 2025-2027.
Bias-Motivated Victimizations and Observed Hate: Unraveling the Contextual Effects Using Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey: School Crime Supplement. Florida State University, Council on Research and Creativity ($84,947), Principal Investigator, 2025-2026.
Understanding Hate Crime Victimization and Reporting. National Science Foundation ($236,985), Principal Investigator, 2021-2023. Hate Crime Victimisation and Reporting: An Analysis of Data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. British Academy, Leverhulme Small Research Grants (10,000£), Co-Principal Investigator, 2022-2025.
Digital Extremism, Physical Hate Crimes, and Mass Shootings: A Novel Analysis using Natural Language Processing and Econometric Modeling. Council on Research and Creativity, Florida State University ($21,389), Principal Investigator, 2022-2023.
The Role of Structural, Legal and Law Enforcement Agency Characteristics in Hate Crime Victimization and Reporting. Council on Research and Creativity, Florida State University ($12,208), Principal Investigator, 2021-2022.
The Effects of the Contextual Characteristics on Racial Hate Crime Reporting: A Multilevel Analysis of Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. First Year Assistant Professor Summer Award, Florida State University ($20,000), Principal Investigator, 2020.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J., Daly Santana*, and Steven F. Messner. 2024. “Underlying Dimensions of Racial Residential Segregation and Police-Caused Homicide of Blacks: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Core Based Statistical Areas.” (Online First) Justice Quarterly.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J., Sohoni, Tracy, and Briana Paige.* 2024. “Mental Illness, Focal Concerns, and Intersectionality: The Relationship between Types of Mental Illness, Type of Crime, and Race and Gender in Sentencing in State Courts.” (Online First) Journal of Criminal Justice.
Whittington, Whitney* and Sylwia J. Piatkowska. 2024. “Far-Right Extremism, Elections, and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia.” (Online First) British Journal of Criminology.
Abreu-Rivera, Laisa* and Sylwia J. Piatkowska. 2024. “Immigrant Threat, Perception of Risk, and Political Articulation of Immigration and Multiculturalism in European Countries.” European Journal of Criminology 21(6), 830-858.
Ramos, Javier, Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Young-An Kim, and John Hipp.2024. “Immigrant-Ethnic Activity Space (IEAS), Prisoner Concentration, and Recidivism.” Crime & Delinquency 70(11), 3016-3050.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J. and Brian Stults. 2022. “Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Social Problems 69(4):968–996.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J. and Brendan Lantz. 2021. “Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales.” British Journal of Criminology 61(3): 648-669.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J. and Steven F. Messner. 2022. “Group Threat, Same-Sex Marriage, and Hate Crime Based on Sexual Orientation.” Justice Quarterly 39(4): 802-824.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J., Steven F. Messner, and Andreas Hövermann. 2020. “Black Outgroup Marriages and Hate Crime Rates: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 57(1): 105–135.
Piatkowska, Sylwia J., Steven F. Messner, and Tse-Chuan Yang. 2019. “Understanding the Relationship between Relative Group Size and Hate Crime Rates: Linking Methods with Concepts.” Justice Quarterly 36(6): 1072-1095.