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  Graduate School–Newark 2012–2014 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Criminal Justice 202  

Criminal Justice 202

Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Director of Graduate Program: Rodney K. Brunson, Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-5030)

Executive Associate Dean: Edith Laurencin, School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-3307)

Website: http://rscj.newark.rutgers.edu/

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

Anthony Braga, SCJ, Ph.D., Rutgers
Crime prevention; policing; gang violence; illegal gun markets

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

Ronald V. Clarke, SCJ; Ph.D., London
Rational choice in criminological theory; situational crime prevention

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

Leslie W. Kennedy, SCJ; Ph.D., Toronto
Violence; victimization; risk analysis; governance

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

Norman Samuels, SCJ; Ph.D., Duke
Terrorism; political process

Bonita M. Veysey, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Mental health and justice; corrections; violence against women

Associate Professors:

Robert Apel, SCJ; Ph.D., Maryland
Employment and labor markets; violent victimization and injury; incarceration and status attainment; family dynamics and antisocial behavior; applied econometrics

Edem F. Avakame, SCJ; Ph.D., Alberta
Social stratification and crime; child development; life-course criminology; quantitative methods; macrosociology

Rodney K. Brunson, SCJ: Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Class, gender, race and criminal justice; criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; gangs and female gang involvement

Johnna Christian, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Corrections; prison families; neighborhood studies

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

Assistant Professors:

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

Elizabeth Griffiths, SCJ; Ph.D., Toronto
Communities and crime; homicide; victimization risk; crime and public housing; the determinants of interpersonal violence

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

Andres Rengifo, SCJ; Ph.D., CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Communities and crime; cross-cultural and evaluation research; sentencing policy

 



Master's Degree Programs: For information about programs leading
to the master of arts, 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, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 (973-353-3029).

 
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