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Rebecca (Jingyi) Fei 

Rebecca is a PhD student at School of Criminal Justice at University at Albany. She graduated from University of Leicester (England) in July 2015 with a BA in Criminology. After that, she went to University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a MSc in Criminology in May 2016. Her research interest includes wrongful conviction, particularly post-exoneration offending, decision making and cross-national studies. She’s currently working on two papers: 1) deterrent effect of determinate and indeterminate sentences, and 2) a cross-national study of suicide and homicide rate.