Amy Anderson is an Associate Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology/Criminology from Ohio State University in 1997, M.A. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program (Sociology Department) at Pennsylvania State University (2000), and her Ph.D. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program at Pennsylvania State University in 2003.

Her research interests include time use and deviance, the relationship between family, school, and neighborhoods and delinquency, public perceptions of sex offenders, and quantitative methods.

Selected Publications

Anderson, Amy L. "Individual and Contextual Influences on Delinquency: The Role of the Single Parent Family." 2002. Journal of Criminal Justice, 30(6): 575-587.

Anderson, Amy L, Mary K. Evans, and Lisa L. Sample. 2009. “Who Checks the Sex Offender Registries? A Look at Legislative Intent and Citizen Action.” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 22(3): 313-329.
Anderson, Amy L., and Lorine A. Hughes. 2009. “Exposure to Situations Conducive to Delinquent Behavior: The Effects of Time Use, Income, and Transportation.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 46(1): 5-34.

Anderson, Amy L. and Lisa L. Sample. 2008. “Public Awareness and Action Resulting from Sex Offender Notification Laws.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, 19(4): 371-396.

Anderson, Amy L. and Cassia Spohn. 2010. “Lawlessness in the Federal Sentencing Process? A Test for Uniformity and Consistency in Sentence Outcomes.” Justice Quarterly, 27(3): 362-393.

Clinkinbeard, Samantha S., Pete Simi, Mary K. Evans, and Amy L. Anderson. "Sleep and Delinquency: Does the Amount of Sleep Matter?" Journal of Youth & Adolescence, forthcoming.

Felson, Richard B., Jukka Savolainen, Thoroddur Bjarnason, Amy L. Anderson, and Israt Zohra. “The Cultural Context of Adolescent Drinking and Violence in 30 European Countries.” Criminology, forthcoming August 2011.

Ménard, Kim, Amy L. Anderson, and Suzanne M. Godboldt. 2009. “Gender Differences in Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36(1): 61-76.

Osgood, D. Wayne and Amy L. Anderson. 2004. “Unstructured Socializing and Rates of Delinquency.” Criminology, 42(3): 519-550.

Sample, Lisa L., Mary K. Evans and Amy L. Anderson. 2011. “Sex Offender Community Notification Laws: Are their Effects Symbolic or Instrumental in Nature?” Criminal Justice Policy Review, 22(1): 27-49.

Savolainen, Jukka, Petteri Sipilä, Pekka Martikainen, and Amy L. Anderson. 2009. “Family, Community, and Lifestyle: Adolescent Victimization in Helsinki.” The Sociological Quarterly, 50(4): 715-738.

Candice Batton is an Associate Professor and Director of the School. She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska Lincoln (1991), M.A. in Sociology from Kansas State University (1993), and Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University (1999).

Her primary research interest is historical studies of crime and violence rates in the United States.  She is also interested in gender differences in crime.  The majority of her work utilizes econometric and time series analysis techniques to examine factors associated with 20th century trends in crime and violence rates.  Her work has appeared in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Homicide Studies, and Historical Methods.

Selected Publications

Ogle, Robbin S., and Candice Batton. 2009. “Revisiting Patriarchy: Its Conceptualization and Operationalization in Criminology.” Critical Criminology 17:159-182.

Jorgensen, Edan L., Candice Batton, and Stacia Jorgensen. (Forthcoming) . “ Strain on the Street: Victimization and Suicide among Homeless Youth.” International Journal of Sociological Research.

Batton, Candice. 2004. “Gender Differences in Lethal Violence: Historical Trends in the Relationship Between Homicide and Suicide Rates, 1960-2000.” Justice Quarterly 21:3:423-462.

Batton, Candice, and Colleen Kadleck. 2004. “Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Racial Profiling Research.” Police Quarterly 7:1:30-64.

Jonathan R. Brauer is an Assistant Professor. He received his B.S. in Sociology and Anthropology from Rockford College in 2003, M.S. in Sociology from North Carolina State University in 2007, and Ph.D. in Sociology from North Carolina State University in 2011. His research focuses primarily on testing and developing theories of crime and delinquency and on investigating social processes that affect child and adolescent development.

Selected Publications

Brauer, Jonathan R., Charles R. Tittle, Olena Antonaccio, and Zaki Islam. Forthcoming. “Childhood Experiences and Self-Control.” Deviant Behavior.

Brauer, Jonathan R. 2009. “Testing Social Learning Theory using Reinforcement’s Residue: A Multi-level Analysis of Self-Reported Theft and Marijuana Use in the National Youth Survey.” Criminology 47(3):929-970.

Pauline Brennan is an Associate Professor and is Doctoral Program Chair for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, in May of 1999.

Her areas of research include court processing, correctional issues, and adult-female offenders. She is author of Women Sentenced to Jail in New York City, published in 2002 by LFB Scholarly Publishing. Dr. Brennan also serves as Director of the London: Study Abroad Program that takes 100+ students to London each year to learn firsthand about crime and justice in England.

Selected Publications

Brennan, Pauline K. 2009. “Race and Sentencing Outcomes among Female Drug Offenders in North Carolina: A Consideration of Earlier Case Processing Outcomes.” Journal of Crime and Justice.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Cassia Spohn. 2009. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/ethnicity and Sex on Sentence Length Decisions in Federal Courts.” Race and Social Problems, 1(4): 200-217.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Abby L. Vandenberg. 2009. “Depictions of Female Offenders in Front-Page Newspaper Stories: The Importance of Race/Ethnicity.” International Journal of Social Inquiry, 2(2): 141-175.

Brennan, Pauline K. 2009. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Sentencing Outcomes” in M.D. Krohn, A.J. Lizotte, & G.P. Hall (eds.) Handbook on Crime and Deviance. New York: Springer Science and Business Media.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Cassia Spohn. 2008. “Race/ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes among Drug Offenders in North Carolina.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24(4): 371-398.

Samantha Clinkinbeard is an Assistant Professor.  She received her B.A. in Psychology from Central College in Pella, Iowa (2002), M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno.  Her primary research interests include self-concept, future orientation, and motivation as they relate to delinquency and other at-risk behaviors among adolescents. She has been involved in a number of program evaluations, the most recent of which relates to alcohol use under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Strategic Planning Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG). She also has teaching and research interests surrounding survey research methods, juvenile justice, and the intersection between psychology and the law. Vita

Selected Publications

Clinkinbeard, S. S. & Zohra, T. (forthcoming). Expectations, fears, and strategies: Juvenile offender thoughts on a future outside of incarceration. Youth & Society.

Clinkinbeard, S. S. & Murray, C. I. (forthcoming). Perceived support, belonging, and possible self strategies among incarcerated juvenile offenders. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Clinkinbeard, S. S., Simi, P., Evans, M. K., & Anderson, A. L. (2010 – published online, print forthcoming). Sleep and delinquency: Does the amount of sleep matter? Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Marsh, S. C., Clinkinbeard, S. S., Thomas, R. T., & Evans, W. P. (2007). Risk and protective factors predictive of sense of coherence during adolescence. Journal of Health Psychology, 12(2), 281-284.

Miller, M. K. & Clinkinbeard, S. S. (2006). Improving the AMBER Alert system: Psychology research and policy recommendations. Law & Psychology Review, 30, 1-21.

John Crank is Professor. He received his Masters in Sociology in Tucson in 1974 and in Public Administration in Springfield, Illinois, in 1976 and Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 1987.  He has published in the area of police effectiveness, and in the areas of organizational culture and structure, focusing on the police and on parole and probation.  He has also published on criminal justice theory and counter-terrorism. He has been active in grants-writing, with two National Institute of Justice grants.  He has published 7 books, two of which are in their second edition.  He also received the "Outstanding Book Award" in 2004 from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book, Imagining Justice. Vita

Selected Publications

Liu, Yanhua, and John Crank. (2010.) “Citizen Attitudes Toward the Police: Towards Theoretical Relevance.” Criminal Justice Studies 23(2).

Crank, John, and Blythe Bowman. (2010.) “Toward an Interpretive Criminal Justice.” Critical Criminology.

Caldero, Michael, and John P. Crank. 2010. Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause (3 rd Edition). Anderson Press: Lexis/Nexis.

Crank, John, and Andrew Giacomazzi. 2009. “A Sheriffs Office as a Learning Organization.” Police Quarterly.

Crank, John P., and Patricia Gregor. 2004. Counter-terrorism After 9/11: Justice, Security, and Ethics Reconsidered. Anderson Press: Lexus/Nexus.

Crank, John P. 2003. Understanding Police Culture (2 nd Edition). Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Press.

Crank, John P. 2002. Imagining Justice. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson. (Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award Winner for 2004).

Chris Eskridge Chris Eskridge took his PhD from Ohio State University in 1978 and joined the faculty shortly thereafter. Prior to that time, he worked in a number of justice agencies. In addition to his faculty duties, he currently serves as the Director of the American Society of Criminology.

Professor Eskridge has published widely and has made numerous professional presentations, nationally and internationally. He serves as the General Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice and is on the board of several other journals.

Dennis Hoffman is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He teaches undergraduate courses on Survey of Criminal Justice, Organized Crime, and Terrorism. His main area of interest is organized crime in Chicago. Hoffman is also the Undergraduate Program Chair on the Omaha campus.

His first book, Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders (So. Ill. Univ. Press, 1993) highlighted the role of urban vigilantes in bringing Al Capone to justice. He is currently writing a sequel, No One is Above the Law: The Trial of Al Capone. This work-in-progress fits in the genre of research on criminal justice and the media. 

Selected Publications

Hoffman, Dennis. 1993. Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago’s Private War Against Capone. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Hoffman, Dennis and Vincent J. Webb. 1981. “Suicide as Murder at Common Law: Another Chapter in the Falsification of Consensus Theory.” Criminology 19 (3): 372-384.

Hoffman, Dennis, William Little, and Gary Perlstein. 1980. “Racial Minorities and Women Workers in a Big City Police Department: A Case Study in the Elusiveness of Affirmative Action.” Criminal Justice Review 5 (2): 22-30.

Anne Hobbs, J.D. Ph.D. is the Director of the Juvenile Justice Institute at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Her research interests include implicit bias, inequality in our justice systems, disproportionate minority contact and program evaluation. She has conducted a number of mixed methodological studies on the topic of racial and ethnic inequality in the juvenile justice system. She also enjoys teaching the criminal procedure and civil rights and working with students on a variety of projects.

Lorine Hughes is an Associate Professor. She received her B.S. in Sociology from Oregon State University in 1996, M.A. in Sociology from Washington State University in 1998, and Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University in 2003.

Her scholarly interests include youth street gangs, criminological theory, quantitative methods, and sex offenders and sex offender legislation.

Selected Publications

Hughes, Lorine A., and Keri B. Burchfield. 2008. “Sex Offender Residence Restrictions in Chicago: An Environmental Injustice?” Justice Quarterly 25(4): 647-673.

Hughes, Lorine A. 2007. “Youth Street Gangs.” Pp. 41-59 in Youth Violence and Delinquency: Monsters and Myths (Vol. 1), edited by Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Short, James F., Jr., and Lorine A. Hughes (Eds.). 2006. Studying Youth Gangs. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Hughes, Lorine A., and James F. Short, Jr. 2005. “Disputes Involving Youth Street Gang Members: Micro-social Contexts.” Criminology 43(1): 43-76.

Susan Jacobs is Associate Professor Emeritus. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

She has published on topics involving sexual assault of doctors and lawyers directed toward their patients and clients, and development of policy to govern issues related to AIDS in correctional facilities. Her most recent publications are two books, Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework (co-authored with Robbin S. Ogle) and Case Studies in Criminal Procedure. She recently lectured in Israel on self defense and domestic violence, and will be a Visiting Professor in Criminal Law in Slovakia in 2007. Susan has been awarded a Canterbury Fellowship and will be teaching at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2009.

Colleen Kadleck is an Associate Professor. She received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University (1994), M.S. from the University of Cincinnati (1995), and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati (2001).

Her research interests focus primarily in issues in policing and the use of quantitative methods. Currently her work is focusing on the systematic study of police unions and methodological and statistical issues in the measurement of agreement between raters.

Selected Publications

Kadleck, Colleen. 2003. “Police Employee Organizations.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management 26(2): 341-351.

Batton, Candice and Colleen Kadleck. 2004. “Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Racial Profiling Research.” Police Quarterly 7(1): 30-64.

Hughes, Lorine and Colleen Kadleck. 2008. “Community Notification and Community Stratification.” Justice Quarterly 25(3): 469-495.

Chris E. Marshall is an Associate Professor. He studied sociology at Bowling Green State University (B.A. in 1971; M.A. in 1975). He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University in 1978.

His teaching/research interests include theory construction focusing on the structural aspects of discursive theory, exploratory data analysis and graphing techniques for multivariate categorical data, general research methodology and statistics, social control, deterrence, and social indicators.

Selected Publications

Marshall, Chris E. 1994. “The Single Case Orientation vs. The Aggregate Orientation: Problem of Communication in Criminal Justice.” The Justice Professional .

Marshall, Chris E. and T. Hank Robinson with Dae-Hoon [Tim] Kwak. 2003. “Transnational Crime: Computer Crime in the Brave New World,” in Philip Reichel (ed.) The Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice.

Marshall, Ineke H., Chris E. Marshall, and Ling Ren. 2009. "Mixed Method Measurement of Homicide Events in Comparative Research: An Illustration of the Potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis" International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 33:2.

Robert F. Meier is a Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Sociology.

He is the author or editor of 15 books and over 50 articles in professional journals. His scholarly interests include general processes of deviance and social control with a special interest in crime and crime-control policy. His most recent books include The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis (with Leslie Kennedy and Vincent Sacco, 2001), Criminal Justice and Moral Issues (with Gilbert Geis, 2006), and Sociology of Deviant Behavior, 13th edition (with Marshall B. Clinard, 2008). He is presently involved (with Jessie Krienert) in another book project, Criminology: The Essentials, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Selected Publications

Clinard, Marshall B., and Robert F. Meier. 2011. Sociology of Deviant Behavior (14th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, in press.

Meier, Robert F. 2011. “Corporate Crime,” in William J. Chambliss, ed., Crime and Criminal Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Meier, Robert F., and Jessie Krienert, Criminology: The Essentials. (New York: Oxford University Press, in press).

Meier, Robert F. and Teresa F. Smith. 2011. “Experiencing the Criminal Justice System: Lessons for Later Criminological Understanding,” in Lee Michael Johnson, ed., Experiencing Corrections. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Swatt, Marc, and Robert F. Meier, 2008. "Self-Control Theory and Property Crime," in Erich Goode, ed., Out of Control? An Assessment of The General Theory of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Wulf, Timbre L. and Robert F. Meier. 2011. “Public Order Crimes.” Oxford Bibliographies Online. Richard Rosenfeld, editor. (New York: Oxford University Press).

Robbin Ogle is an Associate Professor. She obtained her Masters Degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in Sociology/Criminology in 1988. She received Ph.D.s in Criminology and Women's Studies from Penn State University in 1995.

Her research interests are Criminological Theory, Organizational Theory, Female Criminality, Corrections, and Serial Killing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The Prison Journal, The Criminal Law Journal, and The Journal of Crime & Delinquency. She is author/editor of several books, the most recent is Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework which creates a new theory for explaining battered women who kill and the use of self defense. She is currently editing a new book with Dr. Candice Batton, which will serve as a general text for courses on Serial Homicide.

Selected Publications

Ogle, Robbin S., Maier-Katkin, Daniel, & Bernard, Thomas J. 1995. "A Theory of Homicidal Behavior Among Women." Criminology 33(2):173-193.

Ogle, Robbin S., and Susan Jacobs. 2002. Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Ogle, Robbin S., and Candice Batton. 2009. "Revisiting Patriarchy: Its Conceptualization and Operationalization in Criminology," Critical Criminology 17:159-182.

Maier-Katkin, Daniel, and Robbin S. Ogle. 1996. "Policy and Disparity: Punishment of Infanticide in Britain and the U.S." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 21(2):85-104.

Ogle, Robbin S. 1999. "Prison Privatization: An Environmental Catch 22." Justice Quarterly 16(3):579-600.

Batton, Candice, and Robbin S. Ogle. 2003. "Who's It Gonna Be - You or Me? The Potential of Social Learning Theory for Integrated Homicide-Suicide Theory," pp. 85-108 in Ronald L. Akers and Gary F. Jensen (Eds.) Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime: A Guide for the New Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Lisa L. Sample is an Associate Professor and Reynolds Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service. She is also the Masters Program Coordinator for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research interests include criminal and juvenile justice policy. More specifically, she conducts research in juvenile and criminal justice sentencing disparities, drug control policies, prison reentry programs, and sex offender behavior and policies. She has worked with several state and local agencies to evaluate programs intended to address juvenile truancy, prisoner reentry, drug use, and methamphetamine manufacture and sale.

Selected Publications

Anderson, Amy L., Mary K. Evans, and Lisa L. Sample. (Forthcoming). “Who Accesses the S ex O ffender Reg istries? A L ook at L egislative I ntent and C itizen A ction in Nebraska.” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society.

Spohn, Cassia, and L isa L. Sample. (Forthcoming). “The Dangerous Drug Offender in Federal Court: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culpability.” Crime & Delinquency.

Anderson, Amy L., and Lisa L. Sample. 2008. “Public Awareness and Action Resulting from Sex Offender Community Notification Laws.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 19:4: 371-396.

Sample, Lisa L., and Colleen Kadleck. 2008. “Sex Offender Laws: Legislators’ Accounts of the Need for Policy. Criminal Justice Policy Review 19:1: 40-62.

Jukka Savolainen is an Associate Professor. A native of Finland, he earned his MA in social sciences at the University of Helsinki (1990) and PhD in sociology at State University of New York, Albany (1996). Prior to UNO, Dr. Savolainen has taught at Western Washington University, University of Helsinki, and University of Minnesota. He has also held senior-level research positions at New York City Criminal Justice Agency and Ministry of Justice ( Finland). Vita.

Dr. Savolainen has published mostly in the area of violence with an emphasis on cross-national comparisons. Recent work appears in Criminology, Homicide Studies, European Journal of Criminology, and The International Handbook of Criminology. His current research is focused on life course explanations of criminal behavior and crime prevention.

Selected Publications

Savolainen, Jukka, Petteri Sipilä, Pekka Martikainen, and Amy L. Anderson. 2009. “Family, Community, and Lifestyle: Adolescent Victimization in Helsinki”. The Sociological Quarterly 50: 715-38.

Savolainen, Jukka. 2009. “Work, Family, and Criminal Desistance: Adult Social Bonds in a Nordic Welfare State”. British Journal of Criminology 49:285-304.

Candace Kruttschnitt and Jukka Savolainen. 2009. “Ages of Chivalry, Places of Paternalism: Gender and Sentencing in Finland”. European Journal of Criminology 6:225-247.

Felson, Richard, Jukka Savolainen, Mikko Aaltonen & Heta Moustgaard. 2008. “Is the Association between Alcohol Use and Delinquency Causal or Spurious?” Criminology 46:785-808.

Savolainen, Jukka; Lehti, Martti, & Kivivuori, Janne. 2008. "Historical Origins of a Cross-National Puzzle: Homicide in Finland, 1750-2000". Homicide Studies 12(1): 67-89.

Pete Simi is an Associate Professor.  He received his B.A. in social science from Washington State University (1995), M.A. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (1999) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (2003).  His research interests focus on juvenile delinquency and gangs, extremist movements, violence, social psychology, and qualitative methods.  For more than a decade he has conducted extensive fieldwork with right-wing extremist groups across the United States.  His book manuscript, American Swastika, explains the social-spatial contexts neo-Nazis use to sustain their movement in a highly antagonistic environment.   He is currently focusing on understanding the radicalization and deradicalization processes by conducting in depth interviews with right-wing extremists including those convicted of federal terrorism-related charges.  His other research projects involve analyzing the relationship between various indicators of adolescent health and delinquency, and examining the nature and prevalence of Omaha street gangs.

Selected Publications

Clinkinbeard, Samantha, Pete Simi, Mary Evans and Amy Anderson. 2010.  “Sleep and Delinquency: Does the Amount of Sleep Matter?”  Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Simi, Pete and Robert Futrell. 2010.  American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s the Hidden Spaces of Hate. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Simi, Pete and Robert Futrell. 2009. “Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma.” Social Problems 56, 1:89-110.

Futrell, Robert and Pete Simi. 2004. “Free Spaces, Collective Identity, and the Persistence of U.S. White Power Activism.” Social Problems, 51:16-42.

Ryan Spohn is Director of the Consortium for Crime and Justice Research. He received his B.S. in Sociology/Criminology from Kansas State University (1996), M.S. in Sociology from Texas A&M University (1998), and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Iowa (2003).

His areas of research include the areas of juvenile delinquency, crime, families, child maltreatment, and processes of the criminal justice system.

Selected Publications
Spohn, Ryan E. Forthcoming “Delinquent Friends and Reactions to Strain: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Pathways.” Western Criminology Review

Spohn, Ryan E. and Don Kurtz. 2011 “Family Structure as a Social Context for Family Conflict: Unjust Strain and Serious Delinquency.” Criminal Justice Review 36:332-356.

Zavala, Egbert and Ryan E. Spohn. 2010. "Emotional Abuse and Controlling Behaviors in Heterosexual Relationships: The Role of Employment and Alcohol Use for Women and Their Partners." Sociological Spectrum 30:526-549.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Robert D. Baller, Ryan E. Spohn, and Rosemary Gartner. 2008. "Is There Such a Thing as Defended Community Homicide? The Necessity of Methods of Triangulation." Victims and Offenders 3:228-244.

Kurtz, Don, Travis Linnemann, and Ryan E. Spohn. 2008. "Investigating Racial Disparity at the Detention Decision: The Role of Informal Control and Respectability." Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice 5:140-157.

Fitzgerald, Scott F. and Ryan E. Spohn. 2005. "Pulpits and Platforms: The Role of the Church in Determining Protest among Black Americans." Social Forces 84:1015-1048.

Marc L. Swatt is an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 1997 and in Criminal Justice from Kent State University in 1998. He received his M.A. in Criminal Justice from Kent State in 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2003. His primary research and teaching interests include criminological theory, quantitative methods, and spatial crime analysis.

Selected Publications

Murray, R.K. and M.L. Swatt. Forthcoming 2010. “Disaggregating the Relationship between Schools and Crime: A Spatial Analysis.” Crime and Delinquency.

Fox, J.A. and M.L. Swatt. 2008. “Multiple Imputation of the Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2005.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25: 51-77.

Swatt, M.L. , C.L. Gibson, and N.L. Piquero. 2007. “Exploring the Utility of General Strain Theory in Explaining Problematic Alcohol Consumption by Police Officers.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 35: 596-611.

Roncek, D.W. and M.L. Swatt. 2006. “For Those Who Like Odds: A Direct Interpretation of the Logit Coefficient for Continuous Variables.” Social Science Quarterly, 87, 731-738.

Swatt, M.L. and N. He. 2006. “Exploring the Difference between Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicides: Revisiting the Concept of Situated Transactions.” Homicide Studies, 10, 1-14.

Rebecca Trammell is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology from San Diego State University (1999). She received her M.A. degree in sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2002), and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2007).  

Her research interests include violence, law and society and corrections. She was a researcher for the California Prison Rape Elimination Act and worked with prison reentry programs in Southern California. Her current research focuses on prison violence and Serbian genocide.

Selected Publications

Trammell, Rebecca. 2009. “Values, Rules and Keeping the Peace: How men Describe Order and the Inmate Code in California Prisons.” Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 30 (8): 746-771.

Trammell, Rebecca and Scott Chenault. 2009. “We Have to Take These Guys Out: Motivations for Assaulting Incarcerated Child Molesters.” Symbolic Interaction. 32 (4): 334-350.

Trammell, Rebecca. 2009. “Relational Violence in Women’s Prison: How Women Describe Interpersonal Violence and Gender.” Women and Criminal Justice. 19 (4): 267-285.

Bill Wakefield is a Professor and Director of Outreach for the School.

His primary teaching and research interests are comparative criminology and criminal justice, corrections, and program evaluation. As the co-author of Criminal Justice in England and the United States, 2nd edition, 2008, and numerous professional publications, he is currently working on two drug court evaluation grants. In addition, from 1978-2009, Dr. Wakefield has been the leader of a study-abroad tour to England each year in which over 2,000 students have participated. He was also selected for the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University for his contributions in the classroom.

Selected Publications

Hirschel, D., Wakefield, William, and Scott Sasse. 2007. Criminal Justice in England and the United States, 2 nd Edition. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Wakefield, William, and Scott Chenault. 2009. "A Response to Useem and Clayton's Making Prisons Safer:, in Contemporary Issues and Criminal Justice Policy, by Frost, Freilich & Clear, Wadsworth-Sage Pub., California, pp. 362-368.

Wakefield, William, and Yanhua Liu. 2009. Final Report: Sarpy County Adult Drug Court Program: Results and Analysis of Four-Year Research Evaluation Project, UNO, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Samuel Walker is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice. He received a Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University in 1973. He has taught at UNO since 1974. Vita

He is the author of 11 books on policing, criminal justice history and policy, and civil liberties. Professor Walker’s current research involves police accountability, focusing primarily on citizen oversight of the police and police Early Warning (EW) systems. The research on citizen oversight is published in Police Accountability. For more information, visit Sam Walker's personal web site, with information of police accountability and civil liberties: http://samuelwalker.net.

Steve Baxley is an attorney in private practice in Omaha. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree at the University of Houston Law Center. He has been a prosecutor, defense lawyer, author, and commentator on national and local television. He has tried over 100 cases from traffic offenses to murder in both state and federal courts.

Michael Butera received his Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNO and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNL. He began teaching as an adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at UNO in 1989, and has also taught on the Lincoln campus for several years.

Mr. Butera is a 24 year veteran of the Omaha Police Department, where he was assigned as the commander of the Criminal Investigations Bureau at the time of his retirement in 2007. His wide range of experience included assignments in the Uniform Patrol Bureau, Administrative Services Bureau, Burglary Unit, Homicide Unit, Sex Assault Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Intelligence Unit, and in the Narcotics and Gang Units.

Don Carey served as a police chief for 29 years in four different jurisdictions around the country, including Omaha, NE. He received his Masters Degree in Public Administration from Virginia Tech and his B.A. in Criminal Justice from St. Thomas University in Miami, FL. He is a graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute. He is the only police chief in North America to have led 4 police agencies to accreditation through CALEA. Don has published articles in the Police Chief and  CALEA Bulletin magazines. He currently resides in Celebration, FL and instructs online for three different universities and consults on leadership and organizational issues.

Brianna Chase completed her Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice at Wayne State College in 2003 and her Master’s Degree in Security Management at Bellevue University in 2008. She began working for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services in 2004 as a Case Worker and is now employed with Douglas County Corrections as a Correctional Officer. 

Joy Citta is a captain with the Lincoln Police Department with over 35 years of law enforcement experience including commanding the Personnel and Training Unit, Community Services, Inspections and Planning, and 10 years as the team captain for one of Lincoln’s geographic police teams in the downtown/university area. Her current assignment is the commander for Management Services Unit, which handles the national and state Accreditation, Research and Planning, policy, technology, public information and grants. She holds a BA and an MAA from Doane College and teaches law enforcement classes in the state of Nebraska. She is an instructor for Responsible Hospitality Service in the liquor industry, has been a guest instructor at several colleges in the area, and is also an Adjunct Professor for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska.

Jim Davidsaver received his Master’s Degree in Community and Regional Planning from UNL and his Bachelor of Science Degree from UNO. He is a Captain at the Lincoln Police Department and has worked there since 1986. He has extensive experience as a generalist officer, criminal investigator, certified crime scene technician, front line supervisor and shift commander. His areas of interest include community policing, terrorism and Homeland Security.

Mark Foxall is the Deputy Director for the Douglas County Department of Corrections. He began his law enforcement career as an Omaha Police Officer and also worked as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Project Impact with the United States Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, a Master's degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, all from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Pitmon Foxall III is responsible for managing the Department of Homeland Security’s CFATS Program for ConAgra Foods, Inc. He is a third generation Omaha police officer who retired as Deputy Chief in 2008 with more than 30 years of law enforcement experience. Foxall has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska at maha, a Master of Science degree from Bellevue University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Gary Hill has been working with corrections programs since 1964 and has written more than 100 articles and publications. He now specializes in correctional systems from nations in crisis and often works with the United Nations and other international organizations.

Brian Jacksonis the Assistant Chief of the Lincoln Police Department commanding the Operations and Support Divisions. He has over twenty-seven years of law enforcement experience, starting with the Hastings Police Department (1985-1987). Assistant Chief Jackson attended the 233rd FBI National Academy receiving advanced law enforcement/management training. He has held a number of assignments including management of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Drug Task Force, shift commander, department armorer, technical criminal investigations, community services, generalist officer and others. He received his undergraduate degree from Doane College in 1999 and a Masters of Public Administration from UNO in 2010.

Steve Russell has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska since 1985. He has been involved in both civil and criminal litigation representing the United States. He is currently assigned to white collar prosecutions involving fraud and tax violations. Mr. Russell graduated from Ball State University, Summa Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Economics and History in 1979 and from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1982. He was employed in private practice in Kearney, Nebraska, and as a Deputy County Attorney in Hall County before joining the United States Attorney's Office.

Bennie Shobe has worked as a researcher for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, and the University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR). He currently works for the Nebraska Department of Labor. His teaching experience includes courses in Research Methods, Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, Corrections and several other sociology courses at Western Kentucky University, Doane College and here at the University of Nebraska. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Western Kentucky University and is completing his Ph.D. work at UNL.

Larry Wayne completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology at the University of California-Fullerton in 1974. He began his career in corrections at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska soon thereafter. Within the Department of Corrections he has served as a Case Manager, Unit Manager, Warden of the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, Warden of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center, Deputy Director for Programs and Community Services, and is currently Interim Deputy Director for the Institutions Division within DCS.

Joe Yocum currently serves as the Seward County Sheriff and is in his third term of office. Sheriff Yocum was elected in 1998 and has over 28 years of law enforcement experience. Sheriff Yocum attended the 205th FBI National Academy in 2001 and was graduated from The National Sheriff’s Institute in 2000. He is a founding member of the Nebraska Law Enforcement Memorial Project and serves as a member of the Training Committee with the FBI National Academy Association. He received his undergraduate degree from Bellevue University in 1992 and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Kaplan University in 2007.