Rutgers School of Criminal Justice

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Congratulations to our Faculty, Staff, and Students

Last updated: Mar 2012

  • Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ronald Clarke for the Festchrift in his honor published by Routledge in January 2012 (“The reasoning Criminologist”). The collection of essays is edited by Nick Tilley and Grahn Farrell. Congratulations Dr. Clarke!
  • Dr. Anthony Braga’s work with the Boston Police Department on its Safe Street Teams hot spots policing program was recently recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police with its Community Policing Award (2011) and Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award (2011).
  • Drs. Joel Caplan, Leslie Kennedy and Joel Miller have been selected to receive the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Donal MacNamara Award for Outstanding Journal Publication for their paper, “Risk Terrain Modeling: Brokering Criminological Theory and GIS methods for crime forecasting” (Justice Quarterly, 2011).
  • Dr. Todd Clear has been named Fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Congratulations!
  • Drs. Joel Caplan and Leslie Kennedy are the 2011 recipients of the Chancellor’s Community Research Award for their work on the geography of crime and public safety.
  • The 2011-2012 dissertation fellows at SCJ are Brian Smith (*), Michele Muni (*), Steven Block (*), Gohar Petrossian (*) and Aunshul Rege (*). Good luck completing your doctoral work!
  • Dr. Jody Miller has been named Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).
  • Janet Garcia (*) received a Rutgers Presidential Fellowship to support her doctoral work at SCJ.
  • Kimberley Copeland (*) received the 2011-2012 Ralph Johnson Bunche Fellowship and has been named also a Fellow with the Rutgers University Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute.
  • Please join us to welcome two new faculty members to SCJ: Dr. Robert Apel (PhD University of Maryland) is our newest Associate Professor and Dr. Elizabeth Griffiths (PhD University of Toronto) is our newest Assistant Professor. Prior to coming to SCJ Dr. Apel was at the University at Albany and Dr. Griffiths was at Emory University.

* Current PhD student