Criminal Justice 202 (GS-N)

Criminal Justice 202

Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Dean: Bill McCarthy, Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-3311)

Director of Graduate Program: Robert Apel, Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-5216)

Manager of Graduate Programs:  Jimmy Camacho, Manager Graduate Programs and Graduate Enrollment (973-353-3448)

Website: Here

PhD Student Handbook: Here

Members of the Graduate Faculty: Here

Professors:

Robert Apel, SCJ; Ph.D., Maryland
Economy; life course; crime policy; violence and injury; applied econometrics

Joel Caplan, SCJ; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Parole; policing; public security; geographical information systems (GIS); criminal justice policy

Ko-lin Chin, SCJ; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Street gangs; organized crime; human trafficking; illegal immigration

Ronald V. Clarke, SCJ; Ph.D., London
Crime opportunity theories; situational crime prevention; wildlife crimes

Todd Clear, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Incarceration; community justice issues; sentencing and correction; reentry; higher education

Leslie W. Kennedy, SCJ; Ph.D., Toronto
Spatial risk assessment; public security; policing

Bill McCarthy, SCJ;Ph.D., Toronto
Violence; race and crime; policing

Jody A. Miller, SCJ; Ph.D., Southern California
Gender, crime, and victimization; feminist theory; qualitative research methods; international/comparative research

Joel Miller, SCJ; Ph.D., Surrey (UK)
Police-community relations; ethnic and racial profiling; juvenile justice and delinquency; program evaluation

Andres Rengifo, SCJ; Ph.D., CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Bail and first appearance courts; policing;cross-national and comparative research; social networks

Norman Samuels, SCJ; Ph.D., Duke
Terrorism & counter-terrorism; security & intelligence studies; international crime

Mercer L. Sullivan, SCJ; Ph.D., Columbia
Neighborhood and community influences on crime; qualitative research methods; crime and the life course; juvenile justice; school violence

Bonita M. Veysey, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Trauma and behavioral health; implicit social cognition; resistance and identity transformation

Sara Wakefield, SCJ; Ph.D., Minnesota
Incarceration and inequality; reentry and social networks; parental incarceration

Associate Professors:

Valerio Bacak, SCJ: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Health; inequality; comparative criminology; drug policy; quantitative methods

Brenden Beck, SCJ, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Policing; Urban governance; Spatial analysis; Housing markets

Colleen Berryessa, SCJ; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Law and society; courts; mental health; biosocial criminology; mixed methods

Frank Edwards, SCJ; Ph.D., University of Washington
Child welfare; punishment and society; law and society; welfare state; race

Sarah Lageson, SCJ; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Law; crime; media; technology; criminal records

Ebony Ruhland, SCJ, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Police and community; Probation; Correctional policies; Criminal justice policies

Jason Silver, SCJ, Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany
Morality and ideology; Public opinion; Police-citizen relations

Assistant Professors:

Keisha April, SCJ, Ph.D., Drexel
Juvenile justice; Policing; Mental health and crime; Community-based research

Pilar Larroulet, SCJ, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Life course criminology; Women and reentry

Professor of Professional Practice

Alex Gimenez-Santana, SCJ; Rutgers - Newark
Crime mapping; GIS; Neighborhood effects on crime; International Comparative studies

Affiliated Research Faculty

Paul Boxer, SASN; Bowling Green
Juvenile Delinquency; juvenile justice

Bernadette C. Hohl, RSPH; University of Pennsylvania
Youth violence; injury epidemiology; urban health; health disparities; place-based interventions

Master's Degree Programs: For information about programs leading to the master of arts degree, students should refer to the online catalog of the School of Criminal Justice. The academic programs office is located at Center for Law and Justice, Fifth Floor/ Suite 578, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 (973-353-3311).