Gaylene Armstrong, Ph.D.
She/Her/Hers
- Director and Distinguished Professor
- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- 6001 Dodge Street, 218 CPACS
- Omaha, NE 68182-0149
Additional Information
Education
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland
Research Interests
Gaylene S. Armstrong, Ph.D., is director and distinguished professor in the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is also co-director of the Nebraska Collaborative for Violence Intervention and Prevention. As a criminologist, Armstrong engages in a collaborative approach to community engaged research encompassing criminal justice agencies, community stakeholders, state legislators, and individuals with lived criminal justice experiences across the U.S. She has led over $37 million dollars in grant funded research in violence intervention and prevention, specifically in the domains of adult and youth corrections, juvenile justice reform, terrorism, and criminal justice policy evaluation. Armstrong frequently collaborates with criminal justice, social service, and community-based organizations to guide criminal justice policy and improve practice. Typical research outcomes include high impact peer reviewed scholarship and broad dissemination of data-driven scientific knowledge through conference presentations as well as community and agency stakeholders.
Armstrong is former president of the American Society of Criminology Division on Corrections and Sentencing, former president of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and prior executive board member of the American Society of Criminology. She has been awarded the American Society of Criminology Division on Corrections and Sentencing Young Scholar Award and the Senior Scholar Award.
Most recently, through the Nebraska Collaborative for Violence Intervention and Prevention with the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Medical Center campuses and Nebraska Medicine, Armstrong has been an integral member of the implementation team for ENCOMPASS Omaha, a hospital-based violence intervention program with high-risk and at-risk individuals who are victims of intentional violent injury. This program integrates community, social service agencies, and an active partnership with local law enforcement agencies in a joint effort to attenuate firearm violence.