“I owe the opportunities that I’ve had in my career to the School of Criminal Justice.” I’m sure many of us have thought that – giving credit to the excellent academic preparation that we benefited from at the School. For me, that is true, but my career opportunities have a more serendipitous relationship to the... Learn More
I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). My research agenda focuses on three topics: (a) wildlife crime, (b) visitor crime and (c) time-based risk assessments. Extending upon my dissertation work, I have started to collect time use information on victimization surveys. I... Learn More
Jesenia Pizarro, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Her research focus on the importance of understanding the proximal event and situational factors that result in violence (i.e., the who, where, when, and why), and the effect the situational context of violent events has on... Learn More
I am a currently a Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. I am also the founding director of the John Jay College Center on Race, Crime and Justice where I currently serve as faculty research fellow. My... Learn More
Jay S. Albanese is a criminologist and professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He served as Chief of the International Center at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) from 2002-2006. NIJ is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Albanese has written and... Learn More
Faye S Taxman, Ph.D. is a University Professor in the Criminology, Law and Society Department and Director of the Advancing Correctional Excellence Center at George Mason University. Dr. Taxman is recognized for her work in the development of the seamless systems of care models that link the criminal justice with other service delivery systems as... Learn More
My main areas of interest are life-course/developmental criminology, juvenile delinquency, and research methods/statistics. Although I had a previous curiosity about these topics, I really became interested in them during my time at Rutgers. For the majority of my time as a student, I worked for Bonnie Veysey on a study that evaluated the Mental Health/Juvenile... Learn More
Vivian C. Smith’s, Ph.D., (née Pacheco) experience as a National Institute of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellow, fostered her passion for collaborative and interdisciplinary research, while grounding her in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her passion for understanding women’s criminality, has led Smith to publish on issues related to the war on drugs against... Learn More
Rutgers opened up a world of professional opportunities for me. I learned so much from the faculty who taught me, especially from my mentors Profs. Adler, Mueller and Clarke. Professor Gerhard Mueller taught to me took at every crime problem, not just in a local or national context, but also from a cross-cultural, international perspective.... Learn More
I received both my MA and Ph.D. at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Newark. My dissertation, under the direction of Dr. George Kelling, focused on the social networks of street gangs in Newark. After graduation, I joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, where I am now an Associate Professor. My research primarily... Learn More
