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Assistant Professor
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| Research Interests: | Childhood Deviance
Crime and delinquency over the
Development of aggressive beha
Gender and Crime
growth modeling
Juvenile Delinquency
preventive interventions
Statistical Methods
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Hanno Petras (Ph.D. Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University 1998) joined the University of Maryland in 2005 and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Mental Health as well as a Faculty Associate at the Maryland Population Research Center. Dr. Petras is an invited member of the Prevention Science Methodology Group directed by Drs. Brown and Muthén and a founding Member of the Prevention Science Methodology Group II. In addition, Dr. Petras is a reviewer for Criminology and the American Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as an abstract reviewer for the Society of Prevention Research, on which he also serves as an invited Program Committee member in 2006. Over the past three years, he has focused on three areas of interest: (1) Nature and course of aggressive behavior and its related consequences in urban youth, (2) Quality and classification accuracy of screening tools for violence and other criminal acts, and (3) Application of latent variable methods to cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets. Dr. Petras teaches the following course: CCJS710: Regression Models for categorical and limited dependent variables; CCJS699: Longitudinal Analysis with Latent Variables; CCJS652: Juvenile Deliquency Prevention and Control.
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