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Gaylene Armstrong, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Public Affairs and Community Service

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

College of Public Affairs and Community Service

garmstrong@unomaha.edu 402.554.3615

Gaylene Armstrong, Ph.D., is an expert in criminology and criminal justice, specializing in violence prevention, corrections, and criminal justice policy evaluation.

Biography

As a criminologist, Armstrong engages in collaborative approaches 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 $39M in grant funded research in violence intervention and prevention in the domains of firearm intervention, adult and youth corrections, juvenile justice reform, and criminal justice policy evaluation.  

Work & Research

Related Articles

  • Armstrong, G., Gonzales, T., Visenio, M.R., Farrens, A.E., Nelson, H., Evans, C., Burt, J., Bauman, Z., Foxall, M., Raposo-Hadley, A. (2023). Assessing risk factors for victims of violence in a hospital-based violence intervention program. Trauma Care, 3, 1-14.  
  • Foje, N., Raposo-Hadley, A., Farrens, A., Burt, J., Evans, C., Bauman, Z., Armstrong, G., Foxall, M., & Garman, J. (2022). Baseline needs assessment for a hospital-based violence intervention program: 1 year pilot. Trauma Care, 2(2), 373-380. https://doi.org/10.3390/traumacare2020030 
  • Snyder, K.B., Raposo-Hadley, A., Evans, C., Farrens, A., Burt, J., Armstrong, G., Garman, J., Wylie, L., & Foxall, M. (2022). Defense, Disrespect, and #Deadly: A qualitative exploration of precursors to youth violence informed through hospital-based youth violence prevention program follow-up. The Journal of Qualitative Criminology and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.ba7bc0c9

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'Room for improvement:' FBI holds recruitment event to boost diversity among agents’ - KETV
‘Omaha, Bellevue police find good, bad in social media’ - WOWT
‘Does the job matter? Comparing correlates of stress among treatment and correctional staff in prisons’ - Journal of Criminal Justice

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