Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Director of Graduate Program: Elizabeth Griffiths, Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, Center for Law and Justice (973-353-3303)

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

Website: rscj.newark.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

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

Rod Brunson, SCJ; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Social stratification; criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; gangs

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

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

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

Associate Professors:

Edem F. Avakame, SCJ; Ph.D., Alberta
Social stratification; child development; life course; 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; neighborhoods

Elizabeth Griffiths, SCJ; Ph.D., Toronto
Communities and crime; drug markets; case processing; penalty enhancements; violence; prosecutorial/judicial discretion

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

Michael Ostermann, SCJ; Ph.D., Rutgers (Newark)
Evidence-based crime policy; prisoner reentry; parole; corrections; program evaluation; risk assessment; translation criminology

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

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

Assistant Professors:

Valerio Bacak, SCJ; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Incarceration; health disparities; youth sexuality; quantitative methods

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

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

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

Michael Sierra-Arevalo, SCJ; Ph.D., Yale
Policing; ethnography; organizational culture; social networks; gun violence

Jasmine Silver, SCJ; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Morality and Ideology; public opinion; police-citizen relations