Dr. Michelle L. Malkin

Michelle L. Malkin, JD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and the Director of the Gambling Research and Policy Initiative at East Carolina University. Dr. Malkin’s research interests include a focus on gambling-related harms, gambling-motivated crime, and the gambling prevalence, behavior and risk of marginalized and
under-researched communities. Her research on Problem Gambling, General Strain Theory and Gender received the 2022 Dr. Durand Jacobs Dissertation Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling. She is currently conducting several research studies relevant to further understanding of gambling and gambling-related harms including projects on college-student gambling risk and behavior, gambling behavior and risk among LGBTQ+ individuals, the national landscape of self-exclusion based on jurisdictional legality, and an evaluation of the Clark County Gambling Treatment Diversion Court.