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| Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Director, Professor |
| PhD., University of Pennsylvania, Social Systems Sciences: Criminology & Criminal Law, 1986 |
| Contact: kleonard@siu.edu |
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| 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. |
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| Rod K. Brunson, Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago, Criminal Justice, 2003 |
Contact: brunsonr@siu.edu |
| Specializations:
Class, Gender, Race and Juvenile/Criminal Justice, Communities and Crime, Violence,
Policing, Qualitative Research Methods, Criminological Theory, Delinquency, Gangs and Female Gang Involvement |
Rod K. Brunson joined the Center faculty in Fall 2008. His research examines youths’ experiences in neighborhood contexts, with a specific focus on the interactions of race, class, and gender, and their relationship to criminal justice practices. His work appears in the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Gender & Society, Justice Quarterly, and the Journal of Crime and Justice. |
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| George Burruss, Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2001 |
Contact: gburruss@siu.edu |
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| Specializations: Juvenile Courts, Legal Representation of Juveniles, Decision Making in Criminal Justice Organizations, Policing. |
Dr. Burruss came to SIUC in the fall of 2004. He received his Ph.D. 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 for five years. He investigated cases involving white-collar crime, antitrust, and public corruption. His research focuses on criminal justice organizations, including the juvenile court and police, and white-collar crime. He teaches courses in white-collar crime, juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, research methods, theory, and statistics. |
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Nicholas Corsaro, Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Criminal Justice, 2007 |
Contact: ncorsaro@siu.edu |
| Specializations: Theories of Violent Crime, Homicide, Environmental Criminology, Public Policy, Evaluation Research, and Quantitative Statistical Analysis |
Dr. Corsaro joined the SIUC faculty in the Spring of 2008 after completing his doctorate from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Corsaro has been involved in multiple research projects examining the change in gun violence by using specific deterrence approaches. He has served as a researcher on the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership (IVRP) project, the Violent Crime Impact Team (VCIT) project conducted by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearm and Explosives (ATF) division in Washington, D.C., and the national Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative. Recent publications have appeared in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice and Justice Quarterly. |
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James Garofalo, Professor |
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, Criminal Justice, 1978 |
Contact: jimg@siu.edu |
| Specializations: Victimization: Policing; Hate Crimes; Crime Prevention. |
Dr. Garofalo is most widely recognized for his contributions in the areas of victimization and the fear of crime. He also has conducted research and published articles on topics such as policing, community crime prevention, hate crime, dispute resolution processes, crime and the mass media, and the use of imprisonment. Dr. Garofalo came to SIUC in Fall 1991, from the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University-Bloomington. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany. |
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| Matthew Giblin, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D., Indiana University, Criminal Justice, 2004 |
Contact: mgiblin@siu.edu |
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, and criminal victimization. |
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Daniel Hillyard, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Program Director |
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society, 1999
J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1990 |
Contact: hillyard@siu.edu |
| 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. |
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Daryl Kroner, Assistant Professor |
Ph.D., Carleton University, Psychology, 1999 |
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| 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. |
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James LeBeau, Professor |
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Geography,1978 |
Contact: lebeau@siu.edu |
| 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.
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M. Joan McDermott, Associate Professor, Director of Women's Studies |
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, Criminal Justice, 1979 |
Contact: joanmcd@siu.edu |
| Specializations: Feminist and Peacemaking Criminology; Female Crime; Theory; Family Violence; Juvenile Delinquency. |
Dr. McDermott has interests in interdisciplinary research, feminist and peacemaking criminology, juvenile delinquency, family violence, women in the criminal justice system as victims and offenders, management of criminal justice agencies and organizational change. She is currently completing a research project to evaluate a local domestic violence pro-arrest project. She has experience in criminal justice policy analysis, program development and planning in a government agency setting. She has a cross-appointment in the Department of Sociology. Dr. McDermott came to SIUC in Fall, 1991. Currently she is the Director of Women's Studies.
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| Kristine M. Miller, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, Criminology, 2007 |
| Contact: kmiller@siu.edu |
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| Specializations: Homicide, Capital Punishment, Corrections, Sexual Assault |
Kristine Miller came to SIUC in August of 2007 after completing her PhD in Criminology from The University of Texas at Dallas. She has served as a researcher on a state-wide project in Texas, where she surveyed male inmates on their sexual assault experiences while incarcerated. After completing her position as Managing Editor, she now serves on the Editorial Board of Crime and Delinquency. |
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| Nancy Morris, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Contact: nmorris@siu.edu |
| Specializations: Juvenile Delinquency, Life Course Criminology |
Dr. Morris came to SIUC in August 2007 after completing her PhD in Criminology & Criminal Justice. Her research interests include examining patterns of antisocial and criminal behavior over the life course, longitudinal methodology, criminological theory and cross-national criminology. She is currently working on projects that examine the effects of early childhood traits and later life events on subsequent patterns of delinquency and criminal offending among a high-risk sample of adolescent boys. |
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| Christopher Mullins, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D., University of Missouri St. Louis, Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Contact:mullinsc@siu.edu |
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| 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. |
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Joseph Schafer, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director |
Ph.D., Michigan State, Social Science (Criminal Justice), 2000 |
Contact: jschafer@siu.edu |
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 Specializations: Policing, Future of Crime and Justice, Criminal Justice Management and Administration, Policy and Program Evaluation, Extremist Organizations. |
Dr. Schafer came to SIUC in 2000 after receiving his doctorate from Michigan State University. He has been actively involved in studying change and innovation in police agencies, police oversight and integrity, public safety leadership, officer behavior, and futures issues in criminal justice. Dr. Schafer directs the AJ graduate program and the Center for Rural Violence and Justice Studies. 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 campus-based critical incident responses, homeland security innovation, police leadership, rural victimization, and emerging issues in policing. |
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