Adriana Santos is a doctoral student at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. Her research spans two distinct areas: police violence in Brazil and environmental criminology. While the former focuses on how the risk of lethal police violence varies across social groups, the latter focuses on place-based approaches to public safety, including spatial-temporal crime analyses, community violence, and data-informed community engagement.

As Program Manager for the Newark Public Safety Collaborative (NPSC), she applies geospatial techniques to analyze crime data and collaborates with community organizations and local stakeholders to design and implement crime prevention strategies that are complementary to law enforcement.

Adriana is committed to bridging research and practice through rigorous, policy-relevant scholarship. She has presented her work on public safety and state violence at academic and professional conferences across the United States, Latin America, and Europe.