Degree Program Offered:
Doctor of Philosophy
Dean: Shadd Maruna, 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)
Executive Associate Dean: Edith Laurencin, School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-3307)
Website:
rscj.newark.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Professors:
Anthony Braga, SCJ; Ph.D., Rutgers
Crime prevention; policing; gang violence; illegal gun markets; program evaluation
Rodney K. Brunson, SCJ; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Class, gender, race, and criminal justice; criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; gangs and female gang involvement
Ko-lin Chin, SCJ; Ph.D., 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
Shadd Maruna, SCJ; Ph.D., Northwestern
Desistance from crime; offender rehabilitation; psychology of crime
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)
Trauma and behavioral health; implicit social cognition; desistance and identity transformation
Associate Professors:
Robert Apel, SCJ; Ph.D., Maryland
Economy; crime control policy; life course; violence and injury; applied econometrics
Edem F. Avakame, SCJ; Ph.D., Alberta
Social stratification and crime; child development; life-course criminology; quantitative methods; macrosociology
Joel Caplan; SCJ; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Parole; policing; public security; geographical information systems (GIS); criminal justice policy
Johnna Christian, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Corrections; prison families; neighborhood studies
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
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:
Valerio Bacak, SCJ; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Incarceration; health disparities; youth sexuality; quantitative methods
Sarah Lageson, SCJ; Ph.D., Minnesota
Law; crime; media; technology; criminal records
Michael Ostermann, SCJ; Ph.D., Rutgers (Newark)
Evidence-based crime policy; prisoner reentry; parole; corrections; program evaluation; risk assessment; translational criminology
Sara Wakefield, SCJ; Ph.D., Minnesota
Incarceration; life course; inequality; child well-being
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, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 (973-353-3311).
