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Position:  Associate Professor
Research Interests:Effects of domestice violence
Exploring methodological advan
Gender and Crime
Public Policy
Quantitative Methods
Statistical Methods
Statistics
Terrorism
Victimization
Victimization prevention polic
Violence
Dr. Dugan is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management in 1999 from the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. She also has a Masters of Science in Statistics and one in Public Management and Policy also from Carnegie Mellon.

She is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research, the Maryland Population Research Center, and the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism. Most of her recent work deals with consequences of criminal victimization and the efficacy of victimization prevention policy and practice. In her research, she designs methodological strategies to overcome data limitations inherent in the social sciences. Her publications appear in journals such as the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology, and the Law and Society Review.


Education Carnegie-Mellon University
Major/Specialty Public Policy & Management
E-Mail Address ldugan@crim.umd.edu
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download/viewCurriculum Vita

Class Materials:
download/viewSyllabus for CCJS 621, Spring 2007
download/viewSyllabus for CCJS 620, Fall 2007
download/viewSyllabus for CCJS 300, Fall 2007

Projects & Grants: No Projects/Grants Listed

Publications:
download/viewIntroducing the Global Terrorism Database
download/viewTesting a Rational Choice Model of Airline Hijackings
download/viewThe Differential Risk of Retaliation by Relational Distance: A More General Model of Violent Victimization
download/viewExposure Reduction or Retaliation? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on Intimate-Partner Homicide
download/viewThe Interplay between Terrorism, Nonstate Actors, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
download/viewThe Impact of Implicit Stereotyping on Offender Profiling