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Amy Anderson is an Assistant 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, peers and delinquency, communities and crime, social context and delinquency, and quantitative methods. |
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Candice Batton is an Associate Professor and Interim 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 lethal violence in the US and her secondary interests include issues related to juvenile delinquency and gender differences in crime. Currently her work utilizes time series analysis techniques to examine factors associated with 20th century trends in homicide and suicide rates. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Justice Quarterly, Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Homicide Studies, and Historical Methods. |
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Pauline Brennan is an Assistant Professor. 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. |
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Samantha Clinkinbeard is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Psychology 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 interest is in juvenile delinquency though she also has teaching and research interests surrounding research methods, juvenile justice, and the intersection between psychology and the law. She is currently looking at issues of social support and future orienation as they relate to delinquency. |
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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 organizational culture and structure, focusing on the police and on parole and probation; and in the areas of criminal justice theory and counter-terrorism. He has been active in grants-writing, with two National Institute of Justice grants. He has published 5 books, two of which are in their second edition and received the "Outstanding Book Award" in 2004 from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book, Imagining Justice. |
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Greg DeLone is an Assistant Professor. He received a Ph.D. in Public Administration in 2002 and M.P.A. in 1996 from UNO; and a B.S. in political science from Florida State University in 1986. His research interests are policing, the fear of crime, crime in public housing, public policy, and organizational issues. He has been involved in numerous community service and research oriented projects including an evaluation of the Nebraska State Patrol, strategic planning assistance to the Red Cross, and an evaluation of the Minor in Possession Diversion Program for the Health and Safety Council. |
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Miriam A. DeLone received a PhD. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Her research interests include political economy and social control; race, ethnicity, gender and sentencing; and corrections. Her teaching interests are minorities and crime, criminology, corrections, law and social control, nature of crime, and administration of justice. She is co-author of The Color of Justice, (Wadsworth Publishing) with colleagues Samuel Walker and Cassia Spohn. She is former editor of The Criminologist, the official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology. |
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Chris Eskridge currently serves as Professor of Criminal Justice and as Executive Director of the American Society of Criminology. He took his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Ohio State University in 1978. He has authored/edited fourbooks, given more than 200 professional papers/presentation in some two dozen countries, and has more than 60 professional publications. He has also received numerous teaching awards. more>> |
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Dennis Hoffman teaches two undergraduate courses, Survey of Criminal Justice and Organized Crime. His main area of interest is organized crime in Chicago. 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. |
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Lorine Hughes is an Assistant 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 research interests include youth street gangs, sex offenders and sex offender legislation, computer crimes, and violence. |
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Susan Jacobs erned 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 direceted 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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Robert F. Meier is a Professor. 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 Victimless Crimes? Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality, and Abortion (with Gilbert Geis, 1997, 2nd edition forthcoming), The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis (with Leslie Kennedy and Vincent Sacco, 2001), and Sociology of Deviant Behavior, 12th edition (with Marshall B. Clinard, 2004). |
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Robbin S. Ogle is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Women's Studies from Penn State University. Her research interests are criminological theory, female criminality, corrections; and currently, homophobia among criminal justice students and professionals. . She recently completed a book that creates a new theory on battered women who kill and teaches its use with self defense law, Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework. |
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Lisa L. Sample received her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research interests include the social, judicial, and political responses to crime. Specifically, she has investigated the effects of race and gender on criminal and juvenile court processing and the effects of geography on juvenile outcomes. She also researches the offending patterns of sex offenders. She currently serves as the project director for the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program and is working on a book entitled, The Social Construction of the Sex Offender. |
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Pete Simi is an Assistant 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 social movements and collective violence, gangs, racial/ethnic conflict, and life-course criminology. Currently his work focuses upon the historical development of skinhead culture and the persistence of racist political activism. |
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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 Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2007). Her research interests focus primarily on violence and corrections. She was a researcher for the California Prison Rape Elimination Act and worked directly with reentry programs in Southern California. She currently studies gender differences in prison violence. |
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Bill Wakefield is a Professor. His primary teaching and research interests are comparative criminology and criminal justice, corrections, juvenile justice and theoretical criminology. As the co-author of Criminal Justice in England and the United States and the author of numerous professional publications, he is currently working on a grant to examine police response to domestic violence over a five year period in two cities. In addition, for many years Dr. Wakefield has been the leader of a study-abroad tour to England each year in which over 1,000 students have participated. He was also selected for the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University for his contributions in the classroom. |
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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.[Dr. Walker's 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. more>> |