Ph.D., Michigan State, Social Science (Criminal Justice), 2000
Specializations: Policing, Future of Crime and Justice, Criminal Justice Management and Administration, Policy and Program Evaluation, Police Leadership and Organizational Change
Dr. Schafer directs the AJ graduate program and the Center for Rural Violence and Justice Studies. He has been actively involved in studying change and innovation in police agencies, public safety leadership, officer behavior, and futures issues in criminal justice. He is a member of the PFI/FBI Futures Working Group, a past president of the Society of Police Futurists International, and a former visiting scholar in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. Currently, Dr. Schafer is researching college student perceptions of critical incident responses, police innovation, police leadership, rural fear and victimization, organizational change, legal and ethical issues relating with police intelligence operations, and emerging issues in policing.
Ph.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2001
Specializations: Decision Making in Criminal Justice Organizations, Policing, White-Color Crime, Cyber Crime, Theory Testing
Dr. Burruss received his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Before getting his graduate degree, Dr. Burruss served as a criminal investigator with the Office of the Missouri Attorney General. His research focuses on decision making in criminal justice organizations, policiing, homeland security, criminological theory testing, and cyber and white-collar crime. He came to SIUC in 2004.
Ph.D., Indiana University, Criminal Justice, 2004
Specializations: Criminal Justice Theory, Administration and Management in Criminal Justice
Dr. Giblin received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Indiana University. Prior to coming to SIUC in the Fall of 2005, he was an assistant professor at York College of Pennsylvania (2002-2005) and a research associate at the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2002). His primary research interest involves testing theories explaining police department structures and activities. He has also conducted research on homeland security preparedness, college critical incident response, criminal victimization, and campus safety.
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society, 1999
J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1990
Specializations: Law and Social Change, Law and Social Control, Law and Morality
Dr. Hillyard joined the Administration of Justice faculty in 2002. Prior to coming to SIUC, he co-authored a book detailing the modern history, politics, ethics, and legal aspects of the "right to die," with a focus on the many nuances that "legalization" can entail. These and similar scholarly themes underlie Dr. Hillyard's recent book on crime, law, and morality in America.
PhD., University of Pennsylvania, Social Systems Sciences: Criminology & Criminal Law, 1986
Specializations: Criminal Justice & Juvenile Justice Policy; Delinquency & Criminal Careers; Research Design; Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Crime, Justice
Professor Kempf-Leonard joined the SIUC faculty in Fall 2007 as Director of the Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency & Corrections. Her recent work includes Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice, (2005, Univ. Chicago Press) a co-edited volume prepared for the MacArthur Foundation; The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (2005, Elsevier). Current research projects include a study of victimization among recent Mexican immigrants; gender, race, and ethnicity differences in juvenile justice processing; an empirical test of a female- specific pathway to serious, violent, chronic offending. She currently serves on editorial boards of Crime & Delinquency, Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice; Women & Criminal Justice; Criminology & Public Policy.
Ph.D., George Mason University, 2009
Specializations: Policing, Neighborhood Ecology & Collective Efficacy, Theories or Crime and Criminal Justice, Statistics
Tammy Kochel joined the department as Assistant Professor in August, 2009 after completing her Ph.D. at George Mason University. She previously earned her M.A. in Administration of Justice from SIUC. Dr. Kochel has been involved in research with police in Trinidad and Tobago and across the U.S. She has worked for the Department of Justice and a for profit consulting firm conducting research and as a correctional officer in a jail. Her primary research interests are policing, neighborhood ecology and collective efficacy, theories of crime and criminal justice organizations, and statistics.
Ph.D., Carleton University, Psychology, 1999
Specializations: Offender Assessment; Violent and Criminal Risk; Correctional Intervention; Mentally Ill Offenders, Criminal Desistance
Daryl Kroner joined the SIUC faculty in the Fall of 2008 after being employed for 22 years as a prison psychologist. He conducts research with community and incarcerated offenders. His current projects include: mental health assessment of female offenders, dynamic risk assessment during community supervision, evaluating community interventions, and examining predictors of treatment attrition.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Geography,1978
Specializations: Crime Analysis; CPTED; Environmental Criminology; GIS; Mapping; Statistics; Policing; the Geography of Crime and Criminal Justice
Professor LeBeau is an international authority on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) for analyzing crime and police operations. His research on the spatial analysis of rape offender behavior has contributed to the development of the field of geographical profiling. Other research themes and publications include the spatial and temporal rhythms of violence and calls to the police, the relationship between heat stress and domestic disputes, and the spatial-social environmental impacts of police sting operations. Professor LeBeau came to SIUC during 1985.
Ph.D., University of Maryland, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Specializations: Juvenile Delinquency, Life Course Criminology, Cross-national Homicide Victimization, Longitudinal Quantitative Methodology, Theories of Criminal Offending and Crime
Dr. Morris came to SIUC in August 2007 after completing her Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justiceat University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include examining continuity and change in antisocial and criminal behavior over the life course, longitudinal methodology, criminological theory and examining cross-national homicide victimization patterns. Current research focuses on examining the validity of longitudinal survey methodology; assessing the application of micro level longitudinal analysis on macro level data; examining the role of structural and individual traits on selection into and reduction from criminal offending over time; examining cross-national patterns of homicide victimization and terrorism over time. She teaches, undergraduate and graduate courses on research methods, juvenile delinquency and criminological theory.
Ph.D., University of Missouri St. Louis, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Specializations: Gender and crime, Masculinities, Criminological Theory, Violations of International Criminal Law, International Criminal Courts
Dr. Mullins joined the faculty of SIUC in the Fall of 2008. His research focuses on structural and cultural aspects of violence. He is the author of Holding Your Square: Masculinities, Streetlife and Violence (2006, Willan) and the co-author of Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global Social Control: he International Criminal Court (2006, Lexington) and the co-author of Blood, Power and Bedlam: Violations of International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial Africa (2008, Peter Lang). He has also published over 20 articles and books chapters on gender and street crime; genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and international criminal law and jurisprudence. Dr. Mullins teaches courses in criminological theory, violence and courts.
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, Sociology, 2010
Specializations: Juvenile Delinquency, Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Cruime, Sexual Minorities and Crime
Dr. Soto joined the department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in August 2010. Her research currently looks more closely at Hispanic delinquency, paying special attention to differences based on generational status. She is also currently working on projects that look at teen dating violence, intimate partner violence among same-sex couples, and how life-course transitions such as marriage and employment affect desistance among racial/ethnic minorities.
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