Bersani, Bianca | Bianca entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. She received her M.A. in sociology (2004) and B.A. in sociology and psychology (2002) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include crime over the life course, criminological theories, immigration, and research methodology. She is currently working on her dissertation comparing patterns of offending among immigrants and native-born individuals across the life-course. This research draws upon two separate datasets capturing information on immigrants, native-born individuals, and criminal involvement gathered during two important periods of immigration to the U.S. (i.e., early 20th century and present day). ...More | 
Carson, Jennifer Varriale | Jennifer Varriale Carson entered the M.A. program in Fall 2004, and after finishing two years later, stayed on for her Ph.D.(expected in May 2010). She also holds a B.S. in Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota. A research assistant at the START center, Jennifer's primary interest is left-wing terrorism. Her work has mainly involved overseeing various data extension and verification tasks on the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). In addition, Jennifer recently finished the construction of a separate database of both criminal and terrorist incidents perpetrated by radical environmental and animal rights groups. Other research interests include policing, gangs, and gender and crime. Jennifer also teaches the introductory course in criminology and supervises the GTD internship program. ...More | 
Farrell, Jill | Jill entered the PhD program in 2003. Since 2004, she has also been a project manager for the Institute for Governmental Service and Research (IGSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds an M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland and a B.A. degree with distinction in psychology, cum laude from Boston College. Jill has experience conducting criminological research at the University of Maryland, the Urban Institute, and the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy. She also has prior work experience as case manager for youth involved with the Juvenile Justice System in Baltimore City. Her research interests include prisoner reentry, community and crime, juvenile justice and delinquency, sentencing, and quantitative methods. She is currently writing a dissertation, which examines the impact of subjective factors on recidivism among ex-prisoners. ...More | 
Hinkle, Joshua Conard | Joshua Hinkle entered the doctoral program at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2005 after completing his Master's degree in the department in May 2005. His research interests include policing and criminological theory. Since August of 2007 he has worked under Dr. David Weisburd as the project director on an NIJ funded randomized experimental evaluation of broken windows policing in three cities in California. He will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University in the fall of 2009. ...More | 
Hull, David | David Hull entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2006. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University, an M.A. in Education from Boston College, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. His main interests are in criminal justice policy, gun control, the death penalty, and in choice theories of crime. He is currently working on his dissertation on the effects of concealed handgun carry on violent crime. He will be starting as an Assistant Professor at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH in the Fall of 2009. ...More | 
Liu, Weiwei | Weiwei Liu entered the Ph.D. Program at the University of Maryland in 2005, with an M.A. in sociology from the Unviersity of New Mexico. Her research interest includes theory development in life course and developmental criminology, research in education-crime relationship, prevention research in violence and delinquency, criminal specialization, and advanced statistical methods. She is currently working on her dissertation which deals with investigating the mechanisms which help to explain the effect of highschool graduation on later adult offending. ...More |
Schell-Busey, Natalie Marie | Natalie Schell-Busey is a Ph.D. student in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Arizona with an interdisciplinary degree in Sociology, Philosophy, and Spanish. Her research interests include white-collar crime, gender and crime, and criminological theory. Her Master’s thesis, which she completed at the University of Maryland, was titled, “Exploring the Relationship between Profit-Squeeze and Occupational Safety and Health Violations”. She is currently working on her dissertation, a meta-analysis regarding the effectiveness of ethical codes in preventing unethical and illegal behavior in corporations. ...More |
Acevedo, Summer Anne | Summer entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2006. Prior to that she received her M.A. from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in Psychology and Criminology from Florida State University in 2002. Currently she is working in the Violence and Victimization Research Division at the National Institute of Justice. ...More | 
Ahlin, Eileen | Eileen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation research examines the relationship between collective and self-efficacy, and their effects on crime. At Westat, she is Associate Project Director for the Adult Treatment Drug Court Cross-Site Evaluation being conducted for SAMHSA. Eileen has experience working within the court and correctional systems. For the Pittsburgh Youth Study, she has conducted in-person interviews with incarcerated homicide and drug offenders. She has also mentored inmates planning for re-entry and provided family outreach services on a volunteer basis for Opportunities, Alternatives, and Resources of Fairfax, Virginia. She received a B.A. in Administration of Justice and Sociology from Penn State University and earned her M.A. in Sociology from George Mason University. Her research interests include criminological theory (particularly theories focusing on crime over the life course and social control), violence, neighborhood effects, corrections, and research methods. ...More | 
Bears, Megan | Megan Bears entered the Criminology and Criminal Justice joint Masters/PhD program in 2007 as a Sutherland Fellow. In Summer 2009, Megan will earn her Master's Degree and she will continue on with the program in order to earn her PhD. For the Fall 2009/Spring 2010 school year she will be serving as the Graduate Student Representative of the department.
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Beckley, Amber Lauren | Amber is currently a guest scholar at Stockholm University, where she is studying immigrant and ethnic minority offending. ...More | 
Behlendorf, Brandon Paul | Brandon Behlendorf is currently a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, where he serves as the geocoding coordinator for the Global Terrorism Database at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. He is current working on several projects with faculty and other students, including an examination the effects of foreclosures on neighborhood levels of crime, assessing the help-seeking behavior of victims of intimate partner violence in a cross-national sample, and understanding the situational determinants of maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he was a researcher with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, where he conducted a multi-agency evaluation of a commercial vehicle diversion program and assisted in the creation of risk management programs and assessments for the Ohio Department of Public Safety. From 2006-2008, he served on the Traffic Law Enforcement Committee for the Transportation Research Board, and is currently the Graduate Professional Development Representative for the department. ...More | 
Betsinger, Sara | Sara Betsinger, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, is a faculty researcher at the University of Maryland's Institute for Governmental Service and Research (IGSR). Her research interests include problem-solving courts, federal sentencing, corrections, and national drug policy. She received a M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University. ...More | 
Boonstoppel, Sarah Lizabeth | Sarah Boonstoppel is a PhD student in Criminology and Criminal Justice at
the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current research interests
include the role of relationships during the transition to adulthood and
desistance from crime. With Dr. Laub, she is working on a qualitative
component to the Research on Pathways to Desistance Study. In this
project, she is conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with
former serious juvenile offenders in Philadelphia. ...More | 
Bucklen, Kristofer Bret | Bret Bucklen entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. He is currently the Chief of Projections and Population Statistics in the Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s Bureau of Planning, Research, Statistics, and Grants. Prior to his current position, he was employed in the Pennsylvania Management Associate (PMA) Program under the Governor’s Office of Administration, where he worked for the PA Board of Probation and Parole, The PA Department of Corrections, the PA State Police, The PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the Justice Network (JNET) Project. Mr. Bucklen received his M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and his B.A. in Sociology from Geneva College. His varied research interests include criminal desistance, correctional/parole policy, criminological theory, the history of criminology, and correctional population forecasting. ...More | 
Cross, Amanda Brown | Amanda entered in PhD program in 2005 after receiving her MA from The University of Maryland. She graduated from New College of Florida with a BA in Developmental Psychology. Since 2005 she has served as Project Manager of a randomized, controlled trial of an enhanced after-school program under Principal Investigator Dr. Denise Gottfredson. ...More | 
Daggett, Dawn M. | Dawn entered the Ph.D. program in 2005 and is currently working on her dissertation. In 1995, she received her M.S. from Northeastern University. For the last ten years, she has been working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a Social Science Research Analyst. Her main interests are faith-based prison programs, prison privatization, mental health issues in prison, and criminological theory. ...More | 
Garnier, Laura | Laura began her Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2008. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and Criminal Justice from the University of Richmond in 2006, and an M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland in 2008. She currently works as a Faculty Research Associate for the Center for Substance Abuse Research, University of Maryland. Her current areas of interest include prescription drug diversion, drug use and crime, mental health, and violent crime. ...More | 
Goodison, Sean E | Sean E. Goodison has been a Ph.D. student within the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (UMD) since 2006. His undergraduate work was in Criminal Justice and Religion. He obtained a Masters of Forensic Science and Masters of Arts in Criminal Justice from the George Washington University in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Goodison has done research in homicide, terrorism and street gangs, and criminological/criminal justice theory. He has volunteered with the Research and Analysis Division for the Metropolitan Police Department (Washington, D.C.) and will be working on a grant to retrospectively collect homicide case data from 1990-2008 in Washington, D.C. ...More | 
Harris, Anne Elisabeth | Anne entered the Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2008. She received her M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and her B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Maryland, Anne worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Minneapolis Transfer Pricing practice as a consultant and also in their New York City Investigations practice as an adjudicator for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Her research interests include the impact of education on subsequent offending, juvenile delinquency, and quantitative methods. ...More | 
Kumar, Sumit | Sumit entered the PhD program in fall 2008. He is currently working as an RA for the Global Terrorism Database at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). He earned his BS in 2003 from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi and an MA in Social Work in 2005 from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. For the next three years he worked with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an international NGO headquartered in New Delhi. He was Project Officer of a team that initiated a field action project on police-community relations in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India marked with violent confrontation between government and left-wing extremists (Maoists). His other tasks included conducting human rights training programs for police officers, policy advocacy on police reforms in Commonwealth countries and running campaigns in rural areas sensitizing people about their civil and political rights. His main area of interest is the crime-terror nexus. Other interests include theory testing and comparative criminology. ...More | 
Mazeika, David Michael | David is a first year PhD student currently working on a grant studying campus safety. His research interests include geographic information systems and policing, with a specific focus on the diffusion of policing innovations. ...More | 
Miller, Erin Elizabeth | Erin Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. She is a senior graduate research assistant at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), where she maintains the Global Terrorism Database. She received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Her master's thesis is titled "Race, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Retaliatory Homicide," and her dissertation research involves the quantitative analysis of patterns of decline among terrorist organizations worldwide. Her research interests include data collection, desistance, research methods, retaliatory violence, statistical methodology, terrorism, and theory and policy evaluation. She is the graduate student representative to the CCJS statistics committee. ...More | 
Noe, Kathryn Ruth | Kathryn (Katie) graduated from the Master's program in May of 2009, and has entered into the Ph.D. program in the fall of 2009. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Brown University in 2005. Her thesis investigated the effects of juvenile detention on future recidivism for first-time arrestee juvenile delinquents. Her research interests include juvenile delinquency, juvenile sentencing disparities, waiver to adult court, and early childhood deviance. Currently, she is working on a paper examining school bullying victimization. Katie works as a research assistant for Dr. Brian D. Johnson. ...More | 
Pendzich-Hardy, Margaret | Maggie entered the Ph.D. program in 2009. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.A. in criminology from the University of Maryland. Her research interests include neighborhood effects, immigration, and criminological theories. ...More | 
Rorie, Melissa Lynn | Melissa graduated from Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) in 2003. She has one year of experience working for the Virginia Department of Correctional Education, she taught life skills, work skills, and GED curricula to adult probationers and parolees. She also spent two years conducting criminal justice research for Caliber, an ICF International Company. At Caliber/ICF, she conducted research primarily on gender violence, prevention programming, prisoner reentry programs, and community policing. Melissa entered UMD’s Masters-PhD program in the Fall of 2006. For two years she conducted research with Dr. Denise Gottfredson on “deviancy training” in after-school programs. She received her M.A. in Summer 2008. Her Masters thesis (chaired by Dr. Laura Dugan) used the Global Terrorism Database and examined terrorists’ decisions to claim attacks. Currently, she is working on White Collar/Corporate Crime research with Dr. Sally Simpson. Other research interests include theory testing and quantitative methodology. ...More |
Sariti, Amy | Amy entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2007. She received her B.S. in mathematics and elementary education from the College of William & Mary and M.S. in Law & Society from American University. She also worked in the IT field for several years as a system administrator, firewall engineer and security investigator. Her research interests include white-collar crime, cybercrime, and criminological theories. She is currently working on a campus safety and education awareness project that investigates crime and perceptions of crime at the University of Maryland. ...More | 
Sohoni, Tracy W.P. | Before becoming a graduate student at the University of Maryland in fall of 2008 Tracy Sohoni worked as a Court Research Analyst at the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). Some of projects to which she contributed include the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts 2005, the Philadelphia Community Court Evaluation, an evaluation of the processing of civil and criminal domestic violence cases in Cumberland County, NC, a national assessment of court services to limited English proficient battered women, an evaluation of court-based intervention programs for juvenile domestic and family violence, various state court workload assessments and a survey of general civil processing in 46 populous appellate courts. Tracy received a MA in Sociology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2001, and has taught Criminology, Crime and Justice in the US, and Social Problems in the sociology department at the College of William and Mary. ...More | 
Weiss, Douglas Brian | Douglas entered the PhD program at the University of Maryland in Fall 2008. He received a B.S. in Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of South Carolina. Douglas served in the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps program and has several years of experience working with at-risk youth. His research interests include criminal justice policy, juvenile delinquency, drugs and crime, program evaluation, and quantitative methods. ...More |
Pinchevsky, Gillian Mira | Gillian entered the Traditional Masters program in the fall of 2007. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Florida in spring 2007. Her research interests include domestic violence, especially among special populations such as law enforcement and military families, as well as female offenders, and substance use. Her thesis focused on the effect of parental monitoring and sensation seeking on marijuana initiation in college. She currently works as the Graduate Research Assistant for the College Life Study at the Center for Substance Abuse Research. ...More |
Wical, Nicolas | Nicolas Wical earned his B.A. in Sociology from the College of William & Mary in 2006. He spent six months working at the national Department of Transportation for Macrosys Research & Technology. He contributed to the publication of the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2007 and organized international data for the North American Transportation Statistics database for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Census Bureau. He returned to school to pursue his Masters' degree in Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland where he maintains (somehow) a 4.0 GPA. His research interests include juvenile delinquency/prevention, street gangs and program development and evaluation research. ...More |
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