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Penn Criminology Alumni Directory
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Adnan Aamir has received a B.Sc civil engineering degree from UET in Lahore, Pakistan, an MBA from Al-Khair University, and an LLB from Punjab Law College Pakistan. For 6 years he worked as a structural engineer with multinational companies in Pakistan. Following this, for two years he served as assistant commissioner with district administration. His main assignments were management and maintenance of law and order. In addition, he has worked in the investigation and operation branches of the Sindh and Punjab Police, and served as the head of an anti-car lifting cell in Karachi. He serves as superintendent of police in Quetta. |
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Benjamin Adams is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College in 2005, where he double-majored in Sociology and English. After receiving his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2006, Benjamin returned to the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where he is currently employed at the National Center for Juvenile Justice as a Research Assistant. He enjoys working to improve the quality, accuracy, and utility of juvenile justice data at the local, state, and national levels.
Email: adams@ncjj.org |
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Freda Schaffer Adler
freadler@nyc.rr.com |
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Lindsay Ahlman is from Northern California and currently resides in the great city of Philadelphia. As a submatriculant in the Criminology M.S program, she graduated from Penn in the spring of '06 with a B.A. in Sociology and a M.S in Criminology. During her studies, she worked as Assistant Program Coordinator of the 14th World Congress of Criminology, and Program Coordinator for the first annual symposium of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, an award sponsored by the Swedish Ministry of Justice that honors outstanding criminologists and criminal justice practitioners. She is currently employed as a Research Associate at the Philadelphia Adult Probation and Parole Department. Email: lindsay.ahlman@courts.phila.gov. |
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Etannibi E. Molu Alemika
alemikae@unijos.edu.ng |
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Jessica Austin is a native of Columbus, MS. She graduated in 2003 from Davidson College with a Degree in Biological Sciences, after which she worked at the Abramson Cancer Research Institute. Her research centered around the immune system, more specifically around the adaptor protein SLP-76. Her strong interest in science coupled with her interest in the biological basis of behavior led her to pursue a degree in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Jennifer Barnes earned her B.S. degree in Biology at the College of William and Mary, where she pole vaulted for the varsity track and field team. Shortly after graduation in 2003, she began working at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory located outside Washington, D.C. as a mitochondrial DNA technician. While at AFDIL her work supported the identification of remains of soldiers killed in WWII, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as other previous military conflicts. |
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Raquel Kennedy Bergen
rbergen@sju.edu |
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Carol Bohmer
Carol.Bohmer@dartmouth.edu |
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Ian Born received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. He graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a B.A. in International Relations. While in college, Ian worked at the Firearm Injury Center at Penn, where he assisted in researching treatment methodologies for firearm injuries, as well as developing a code manual for a national violent crime database. Ian is currently an analyst in the anti-fraud unit of a major Philadelphia financial institution. |
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Allina Boutilier currently works as a consultant for Development Services Group, Inc. of Bethesda, MD. She collects data and interviews participants in Philadelphia for a research study to determine the impact of Father Flanagan's Girls and Boys Town program on the recidivism of female juvenile offenders. Prior to this, she worked with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization first in Boston then Philadelphia, where she held roles in both managerial and direct services. Most recently, Allina oversaw the operations of the agency's 32 School-Based Mentoring programs in Philadelphia, Chester, and Delaware counties. Allina has served as a Big Sister with the organization for two years. Allina graduated magna cum laude from Susquehanna University where she earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology-Human Services and a minor in Spanish. She is a member of Phi Sigma Iota and Pi Gamma Mu, national honor societies in foreign language and human services. Allina graduated in 2007 with a dual degree in Master of Government Administration and Master of Science in Criminology. |
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Kathleen Brewer-Smyth is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing of University of Delaware. She received her PhD in Nursing with fields of study in Epidemiology, Forensics, and Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her research has focused on neurological and neuroendocrine correlates of violent and other high risk behaviors of female prison inmates.
Email: kbsmyth@udel.edu |
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George Sumner Bridges became Whitman College's thirteenth president on July 1, 2005. Dr. Bridges pursued his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his MA in criminology (1973) and Ph.D. in sociology (1979). His areas of expertise include social control, criminal justice, juvenile justice, crime and its measurement, and research methods and statistics. |
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Ross Bruch was born and raised in Chesterfield, NJ. He received his B.A. in Psychology with honors in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating Ross worked as a legal assistant for the law firm Covington and Burling in Washington DC. After completing his M.S. in Criminology in 2006, Ross entered Penn Law to pursue his J.D. |
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Deborah Anne Buchner |
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Patrick Callahan is a native of Northern Michigan and a former active duty U.S. Marine. He graduated with honors from Michigan State University in December of 2003 with a B.A. in Philosophy and a Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Patrick is a member of Phi Sigma Tau, the International Honor Society in Philosophy, and, by way of philosophical discipline, considers himself most closely aligned with the ideals of Pragmatism. His research interests include violent sexual predators and the policy and procedural systems used to adjudicate their cases, both pre- and post-conviction, and moral agency and responsibility in violent sexual predation with regard to the offender, the judicial system, and society. His future plans include further graduate work at the Ph.D. level, as well as a career in researching and strengthening potential judicial system weaknesses with regard to violent sexual predators, on both the state and federal levels. |
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Albert P. Cardarelli
Albert.Cardarelli@Verizon.Net |
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Mary M. Cavanaugh, MFT, M.S. is currently a joint doctoral candidate in Social Welfare and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Associate Director of The Ortner-Unity Program on Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice. She has been involved with numerous research projects on intimate violence that have been submitted to the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a practitioner in the field of domestic violence facilitating batterer intervention service programs, in cooperation with adult probation and parole departments and victim service agencies. She has served as a consultant and trainer on offender risk assessment and treatment services to state and local victim service agencies and youth and family service departments. Ms. Cavanaugh has recently completed a project for the U.S. Army on "The Evaluation of Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Strategies". She also serves as a consultant to the Violence Against Women and Family Violence Research and Evaluation Program for the National Institute of Justice. Ms. Cavanaugh has recently co-authored a text, Current Controversies on Family Violence (2005) with Donileen Loseke, Ph.D., and Richard Gelles, Ph.D. |
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Ko-Lin Chin
kochin@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
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Giovanna Citti received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 2004 with an Honors B.A. in History and Criminal Justice and a minor in Art History. Giovanna has interned for the Ealing Magistrates' Court in London and for the District Attorney's office in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania doing comparative studies of the U.S. and British court systems. She is currently an analyst in the anti-fraud unit of a major Philadelphia financial institution. |
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Chee-Kin Chow comes from Singapore, where he graduated from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) with honors in Bachelor of Accountancy in 1997. He has been working in the Singapore Prison Service for about 8 years. He is currently the Superintendent of a medium security prison in Singapore which could house up to 1,200 inmates with a staff strength of about 100. Most of the inmates are long sentence prisoners with jail terms of three to five years. As a superintendent of the prison, he is in charge of the inmates' overall safe custody and rehabilitation needs. |
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Ansik Chang is originally from Seoul, Korea. He graduated magna cum laude from Temple University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and a minor in Political Science. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating, he worked at the International Institute for Restorative Practices, a research and educational institution. There, he assisted in a research project tracking juvenile delinquents in alternative schools to evaluate the effectiveness of their program. This work made him more cognizant of social empowerment as a culture as well as restorative justice. Currently, he is a counselor during the summer at the alternative school CSF:Community Service Foundation & Buxmont Academy. His research interests include the nature of crime, the culture of deviance/ crime, religion and crime, restorative justice, and crime policy. |
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LaToya Clark is a native of Philadelphia. She graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a Bachelor's of Science in Economics. In the four years since graduating, she has worked in both the business sector as a financial analyst and in higher education with an emphasis on student affairs. She is in a joint degree program with Penn Law, where she plans to study jurisprudence and criminal law. LaToya is the mother of a young child and also in a yoga teacher-training program; her research interests include the impact of mothers in prison on children and families, as well as the impact of yoga in prisons on the rate of recidivism. She is also interested in researching the cultural (learned systems of values, beliefs, attitudes that shape behavior in specific populations) differences between prison life and life on the "outside." |
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Bernard Cohen
cohen@troll.soc.qc.edu |
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Stephanie Commini graduated from The College of New Jersey magna cum laude in 2005 with a B.S. in Criminology and Justice Studies. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi as well as Alpha Phi Sigma. While in college, she assisted in research projects that examined the 'cycle of violence' to determine if childhood victimization makes juveniles more likely to become involved in criminal behavior later in life. She also studied serial killers and criminal profiling. Her senior research project aimed to expanding on the relationship between Hirschi's Social Control Theory and binge drinking within a college setting. |
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Heather Cromwell was born and raised in western Massachusetts. She attended New York University where she graduated cum laude in 2005 with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology, and a minor in Public Policy. While in college, she worked as a peer advisor and a peer tutor in the Academic Achievement Program. Having always been fascinated with human psychology and the dynamics of human interaction, she has decided to pursue criminology for its highly analytical nature as well as its potential to create change. |
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Jennifer Daddazio received her Master of Science in Criminology and her Master of Governmental Administration in 2007. Previously, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. Joseph's University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. At St. Joseph's University, Jennifer majored in Political Science and minored in Economics. |
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Reagan Daly is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology at UPenn as well, and she also has an M.A. in Sociology. Dr. Daly's main areas of interest include criminal networks, co-offending, and juvenile delinquency. Her dissertation was a network analysis of 16,000 adjudicated delinquents in Philadelphia. She is currently working on two projects--the Penn Violence Reduction Partnership, and an OJJDP-sponsored project explaining and predicting trends in juvenile violence. |
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Deborah Denno is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia, her M.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Debby has written on a broad range of areas emphasizing interdisciplinary influences on the law. For nearly a decade, she served as a Senior Research Associate at the Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, directing a study of biosocial factors and crime.
Email: ddenno@law.fordham.edu |
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Reed Domer-Shank hails proudly from Dayton, Ohio. In May of 2005, he received his B.A. from The College of Wooster, Ohio, where he majored in sociology with an emphasis on criminal justice. During his third year at Wooster, Reed interned with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Homicide Unit, an experience that prompted him to explore graduate school possibilities in Philly. |
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Hannah Dominic graduated from The College of New Jersey cum laude in 2005 with a B.S. in Criminology and Justice Studies and a minor in Psychology. Her hometown is Phillipsburg, New Jersey, but currently she resides in Philadelphia. While at TCNJ she interned with the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the Megan's Law Division. In her senior year she interned at the Princeton Child Development Institute where she studied the applied behavior analysis approach. |
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Laura Draper is originally from Dublin, Ohio and graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University in May 2005 with a B.A. in Biology and Psychology. During the summer of 2004, she served as an Honors Intern with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This past June, Laura completed an M.Phil in Criminological Research at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, England. Her thesis was titled "The Morality of Terrorism: A Study of Societal Perceptions and Reactions." |
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Alexis McNulty Durham
alexis@alexisdurham.com |
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Jill Eidson is from Hilton Head, South Carolina. She graduated cum laude from Davidson College with a B.A. in Sociology. Throughout her four years there, she worked for a community center that provides a variety of educational, financial and health services for the diverse local population. Her senior honors thesis examined fear appeals in local television news media and was presented in April of 2005 at an academic conference in Charlotte, NC. Jill was also an intern at Gaston Correctional Center and worked with prison staff, correctional officers and inmates. She is fascinated by forensic science and assisted in assembling a comparative collection of animal specimens to be used in forensic investigations. |
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Joel Peter Eigen
joel.eigen@fandm.edu |
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Batsheva Spiegel Epstein |
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Edna Erez, LL.B. Ph.D
Professor and Head Department of Criminal Justice (M/C 141)
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 West Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607
Tel.(312)996-5262
Fax (312)996-8355
Email: eerez@uic.edu< |
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Molissa Farber is originally from Miami, Florida, and she graduated with distinction in 2006 from Yale University. Molissa double-majored in Sociology and Political Science. In the Political Science department, Molissa wrote her senior thesis on the strategic use of violent repression in non-democracies and it was published in the Columbia Journal of Politics and Society. She completed an honors thesis in Sociology, in which she conducted original research examining the unintended impacts of legal reform in the mental health system. This paper won an honorable mention in her department, and Molissa is trying to publish it this year. Molissa also participated in theater, improv, and sketch comedy while at Yale, is a novice capoeirist, and used to own two snakes. She has spent her summers working in education, public defense, and television production (in chronological order). |
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Amir Farooqi is from Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from N.E.D. University Karachi and worked as a Control Engineer in Kuwait for three years. He joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 2000 in the Supervisory Ranks. The job entails supervision and command of the Police Force which is divided in different administrative units called districts. The span of control increases as one goes higher in ranks. He completed LLB from Karachi University while continuing his job. In LLB he had special interest in Criminal Law. |
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Robert Figlio
RMF@capindex.com |
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Jeff Fischer earned his B.A. with honors in Political Science in 2004 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While at Dickinson, Jeff was a four-year varsity baseball letterman and team co-captain as a senior in 2004. He also served as a staff writer for Dickinson's student-published newspaper The Dickinsonian. After graduating from Dickinson, Jeff spent a year working as a marketing associate in the Marketing & Client Development Department of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., in the firm's Morristown, New Jersey office. |
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Suzanne Diana Fleming |
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Wanda Foglia
foglia@rowan.edu |
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James Alan Fox
j.fox@neu.edu |
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Zsuzsanna Francia
zfrancia@comcast.net |
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Deborah Marie Galvin
Deborah.Galvin@samhsa.hhs.gov |
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Mary Hendricks Glazier
Mary.Glazier@millersville.edu |
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Kristen Grabowski came to Penn from Wellsboro, a small town in northcentral PA. In her undergraduate work at Mansfield University, she pursued a dual major in psychology and elementary education earning her degree and teaching certificate, with honors. During her time at Mansfield University she engaged in research on delinquency and its relationship to various personality and social factors. She also completed an internship at the Victim Services Unit at the Elmira Police Department and was hired as a Victim Assistance Counselor upon completion, working there for the past two years. Her work at EPD with victims of crime has continued to fuel her interest in the field of criminology with hopes of involvement in a career that will allow her work to reduce victimization through prevention, suppression or apprehension of criminals. |
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Edward Green |
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Gary Sanford Green Ph.D. in Sociology (under Dr. Wolfgang), 1981. Gary has published on numerous topics, but his favorite academic area is crimes committed in the course of occupations that are otherwise legal, especially the examination of violations by organizations based on the structures and processes therein. He founded Compliance Analysis in 2002 as a litigation support and expert witnessing consulting firm. He is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Affairs at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. Gary resides in historic Williamsburg, VA with his bride, Konnie and their daughter, Jennia.
Email: ggreen@cnu.edu |
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Elizabeth Anne Griffiths
egriffit@chass.utoronto.ca |
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Allen Day Grimshaw
grimsha@indiana.edu |
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Laura Gross is from the small coastal town of Camden, Maine. Laura completed her undergraduate studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She graduated cum laude in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and a secondary concentration in Spanish. While at Bates, Laura spent a semester of her junior year studying abroad in Valparaiso, Chile and traveling to neighboring South American nations. Very active in the Bates Community, Laura played soccer and rugby, and was on the board of directors of the Student Activities Committee. During her senior year, Laura was awarded the Bates College Mhyrman/Swett Award for the most outstanding senior sociology thesis for her qualitative analysis of the barriers to reporting prison rape in male United States prisons. Her focus included qualitatively coding the first-hand testimonies of prison sexual violence victims and many of the sociological intricacies of all male prison societies and their consequences. Laura is very interested in finding ways to improve sentencing policies in the United States, rehabilitative justice, improving the conceptualizations of parole and probation, finding ways to reduce the number of people that are imprisoned in the United States, and addressing the plethora of problems plaguing the prison system. |
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Oren Gur was born and raised in Philadelphia. Having received his B.A. from Penn in May 2006 with a major in Urban Studies (History and Political Science minors), Oren is excited to watch campus develop for at least another year as a student in the Criminology M.S. program. He hopes to learn more about the statistics behind criminology so that he can contribute to exciting changes in a more meaningful way. Oren participated in a research project at Penn that used fMRI to study how brain activation patterns can reveal deception, which could prove more effective than polygraphs in lie-detection. He has also interned at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, where he got the opportunity to interview a murderer in jail. Oren is interested in how information on brain function, especially in murderers, may contribute to a better understanding of violence and possible interventions. |
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Paul Heroux received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. He currently works as the Director of Research and Planning for the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Email: PHeroux@doc.state.ma.us |
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Laura Herring received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She graduated from Penn with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Music History. Her senior thesis examined the gender differences in reacting to infidelity. She has worked at the Jefferson Hospital Psychiatric Department to explore a new cognitive therapy for breast cancer survivors called NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique). |
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Rachel Hertz received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She graduated from Tufts University in 2003 with a double degree in Political Science and Philosophy. During college Rachel worked for the Assets Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. |
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Dana Eser Hunt
dana_hunt@abtassoc.com |
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Richard M. Ingersoll
rmi@gse.upenn.edu |
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Joseph E. Jacoby
jjacoby@bgnet.bgsu.edu |
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Norman Bruce Johnston
johnston@arcadia.edu |
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Nikki Jones, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is the first person to earn a Ph.D. specifically in criminology from any top ten research university in the United States. Her dissertation, "Girls Fight," is a qualitative analysis of how West Philadelphian adolescent females learn to use violence instrumentally.
Email: njones@soc.ucsb.edu |
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Susan C. Katzenelson
Susan.C.Katzenelson@nccourts.org |
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Kimberly Kempf-Leonard has been Professor of Sociology, Crime and Justice Studies, and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2000. Prior to this, she was Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She also served for ten years as a gubernatorial appointee to the Missouri Juvenile Justice Advisory Group. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Law at Penn in 1986.
Email: kleonard@utdallas.edu |
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Akil Kokayi Khalfani
akil@atriacorp.org |
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Satoshi Kainuma is originally from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a LL.B. in 1999. After the graduation, he got a position in the National Police Agency of Japan. In the National Police Agency, he had mainly engaged in legal matters such as drafting bills about policing matters and making official guidelines about law enforcement activities. Before entering the University of Pennsylvania, he studied the criminal justice system in the United States in New York University School of Law and received his LL.M. in 2005. |
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Erica Knutsen is from Skillman, New Jersey. She graduated cum laude from The University of Florida in 2006 with a B.A. in Criminology. During her senior year, Erica was enrolled in the combined degree, B.A./M.A. program at UF and also served as a Teaching Assistant in Research Methods in Criminology. She has interned as a Case Manager with Project Payback, a juvenile, restorative justice, restitution program housed within the Victim Services Division of the State Attorney's Office; as well as served as a Project Assistant for the Florida Network of Victim Witness Services. |
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Deborah R. Labovitz
drl2@nyu.edu |
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Patrick Lafferty received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. He graduated Cum Laude from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. While at Ursinus, Patrick completed an honors thesis on international politics with a focus on the Northern Ireland Conflict. During his senior year, Patrick interned with the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. He is currently an analyst in the anti-fraud unit of a major Philadelphia financial institution. |
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Cedric Lourie is from Delray Beach, Florida. He earned his B.S. degree in Psychology and minored in French at Lafayette College. When not in class, he played for the school's rugby team and was an active member of the Chi Phi fraternity. During the summer he spent much of his time studying abroad delving into new cultures and pursuing an occasional stint in bartending. |
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Paul Stefan Maxim
maxim@uwo.ca |
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Amir Menachim
msmamir@mscc.huji.ac.il |
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Caroline Meyer Angel received a joint Ph.D. in Criminology and Nursing in 2005. A psychiatric nurse trained at Penn and Georgetown, her dissertation is a randomized controlled test of the effects of restorative justice on post-traumatic stress symptoms of victims of burglary and robbery in London, England. She remains with Penn as a fellow of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. |
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Aileen McTiernan graduated from Montclair State University with a B.S. in Chemistry, and was certified to the American Chemical Society. She also received an Associate of Science in Chemistry, and an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing. While pursuing her undergraduate studies, Aileen maintained full-time employment in a risk-management position at a biopharmaceutical company in Summit, NJ. She was also engaged in undergraduate research, and volunteered with several organizations, including a local hospital, visiting nurse association, and the American Red Cross. |
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Justin Medina was born in Albuquerque, NM and raised in the Santa Fe area. He received his B.A. in Ethnology in 2004 from University of New Mexico. As an undergraduate, he participated in archaeological digs of pueblo and Celtic ruins. He also did independent research on the causes and effects of protests, riots and demonstrations by Iraqis during the current war. Outside of academics he was a train conductor for Santa Fe Southern Railway. Jusin has a strong interest in border policy and issues; hence he is studying to become fluent in Spanish. He hopes to work with NGO's on international border issues like crime, drug and human trafficking, terrorism, and human rights. |
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Barry Mike
bmike1@verizon.net |
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Richard D. Moran
rmoran@mtholyoke.edu |
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Yukio Nakajima received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005, after obtaining a LL.M. degree from Penn's Law School in 2004. He graduated from Kyoto University, Japan, with a LL.B. degree in 1999. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a public prosecutor and an attorney for the Ministry of Justice in Japan for 3 years. |
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Meghan Nayak is originally from Toms River, NJ. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Sociology and French Literature at New York University. During her time at NYU, she interned for various organizations including the New Jersey Office of the Attorneys General and Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Her interests in the field of Criminology include issues involving international crime, the death penalty, and juvenile offenders. |
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Graeme Newman
harrowhest@aol.com |
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Pat Steele Nielsen received her MS degree in Criminology and Criminal Law in 1984. She was a research associate at the National Council of Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco from 1987 through 1990, focusing primarily on juvenile justice research. At NCCD she conducted an evaluation of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services community-based programs. Upon leaving NCCD she moved into the field of education, first with a private math education firm, then with the training division of a computer software company in Portland, OR. From 1998 to 1999 she held the position of Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Resource Center for Safe Schools, a program funded jointly by the US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Department of Education. She has since received the Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults from the University of Cambridge and taught ESL at the International House Portland for several years. Pat has also become a recognized volunteer at the Oregon Humane Society, appearing on local television stations showcasing animals available for adoption.
Email: Pat.Steele.Nielsen@comcast.net |
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John A. Noakes
jnoakes@ssc.upenn.edu |
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Stephanie O'Keefe received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Psychology, from Drew University in Madison, NJ in 2004. She is currently working with the Providence (RI) Police Department. |
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Christina Palazzolo is from Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University in 2006, where she designed her own major in American Studies. While in college, she enjoyed performing in her school’s theatre productions and helped found a polo team. Christie also studied abroad in London, and for the past three summers has interned at the White House for the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, her senior thesis examined the difficulties that ex-convicts face upon release. |
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Tobi Palmer received her M.S. in Criminology and M.S.W. from Penn in 2005. She is the first to have completed the dual degree program through the Department of Criminology and the School of Social Work at Penn. She graduated cum laude from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in Human Relations. While at Trinity, she also completed a graduate certificate program in International Migration: Trafficking of Women and Children. For field practice, as part of the social work curriculum, Tobi has worked with Families of Murder Victims housed in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, and the Women's Law Project. She is currently a research analyst for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. |
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Lin Pang comes from Shanghai, China. She graduated with honors from Fudan University, China, with a LL.B. degree in 2005. When she was ten years old, she became the youngest student journalist for "Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Newspaper" and had many comments, articles and essays printed in newspapers and magazines. During college, she participated in many social activities, mainly focusing on those related to the criminal justice system and research projects. She participated in research on "Outnumber Stuff Phenomenon in Profitable State-owned Companies" and wrote reports based on data and information collected in one of the largest State-owned companies in China. These reports were then published in a famous economic magazine. She was also a member of the legal assistance department in a local criminal court, and a member of the victim assistance group in a Women's Alliance. She wants to put accumulated research evidence concerning social control into practice. |
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Vanessa Paris received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She also attended Penn for her B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior and a minor in History. Another study examined the heredity of schizophrenia and early onset of recurring depression syndrome. During the summer of 2001, she worked on the Restorative Justice Research Consortium in London, which involved the implementation and study of the efficacy of restorative justice within the British court system. She hopes to work with government agencies in an attempt at lowering re-offending rates in juveniles. |
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Evelyn Patterson is a native of Atlanta, GA. She completed her undergraduate work in Statistics at Rice University in 2002. Her undergraduate summers were spent interning at the Centers for Disease Control in the Sexually Transmitted Disease branch. In addition to sexually transmitted diseases, she has researched migration processes between Mexico and the U.S., racial and sex differences in American obesity, and the evolution of protein sequences in organisms (maximum likelihood estimation of phylogenetic trees), looking specifically at differences in transition speeds of the sites. Her current research interest is collateral consequences of incarceration examined via a life-course perspective. Evelyn is received a joint degree in Demography and Criminology. |
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Harold Eugene Pepinsky
pepinsky@indiana.edu |
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Basia Pietrawska was born and raised in Poland. After completing her high school education, where she was deeply involved in physics and chemistry research projects, she decided to change her surrounding and continue studies in another country. She applied her experimenter skills and general curiosity about people to another exciting area. She graduated from International University Bremen ( Germany ) in 2006 with a B.A. in Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology. While in college, she was deeply involved in various psychology research projects ranging from social psychology to psychophysiology. Those focused on issues like aggression or terrorism. During her time at IUB she realized that she would like to narrow down her studies of humans to one area, criminology. Her international experience and interactions with people from different parts of the world stimulated her interest in intercultural studies. She is particularly interested in international crime. |
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Julie A. Phillips
jphillips@sociology.rutgers.edu |
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Matthew Poppalardo was born and raised in Southern New Jersey. He graduated cum laude from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Criminal Justice and Psychology. Following his junior year, Matthew was selected for an internship with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, Trial Teams Unit. As an investigative intern he assisted with a study evaluating recidivism among probationers. During the summer of 2005, Matthew worked on a research project examining the efficacy of alternative treatment modalities for female drug offenders. |
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Tiffany Price is from Dover, Delaware. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Wilmington College. She was the President of the Criminal Justice Organization, a Student Government Association Representative, and a member of the International Service and Students in Free Enterprise Clubs. She was also chosen for the All-State Academic Team, National Deans List, All-American Scholars, and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. |
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Terica Purnell, originally from New Castle, DE, graduated cum laude from Rutgers University-Douglass College in 2004. She earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice, minored in Africana Studies and Sociology, and received a Criminology Certificate. During her undergraduate studies, Terica was admitted to the Golden Key and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Societies. Since completion of her undergraduate work, Terica has been employed at the Wilmington branch of the Delaware State Probation and Parole agency in the Records Department. Through this employment opportunity, Terica has been granted the opportunity to observe her state criminal justice system, and it's subsequent politics, first hand. Her main goal is to increase the number of rehabilitation programs found throughout the U.S. with a concentration on job training/placement, education, and mutual support networks as a means to reduce recidivism. |
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Harry Reisig graduated with an M.A. in criminology in 2004. Currently, he is a Senior Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice. He works on with the Sentencing and Corrections Program to help state and local governments form better policy decisions based on empirical research. |
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Benjamin H. Renshaw, III
bendavie@aol.com |
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Marc Riedel
mriedel@selu.edu |
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Kelly Robbins received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She graduated from the College of New Jersey Cum Laude in 2003 with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and minor in Psychology. She was selected for an internship at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility working with young offenders for one year, followed by an internship with Majority Leader Joe Roberts of the NJ Democratic Assembly. She has worked at the New Jersey State Parole Board and at South Woods State Prison as a Parole Counselor. Since completing her M.S., she has been hired as coordinator for the Policy and Planning Office of the New Jersey Division of Parole and Parole Board. |
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Jessica Rubin received her M.A. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. She received her B.A. with Honors in Sociology from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 2004. As a volunteer for the Prison Literacy Initiative, Jessica tutored inmates at a maximum-security prison in Ontario. She also participated in the Queen's Kaleidoscope program as a mentor for disadvantaged children. During the summer of 2004, Jessica assisted Queen's University Professor Fiona Kay in the development of criminology and sociolegal courses in the sociology department. She also worked with Dr. Kay on two research projects that examine the roles of women in the legal profession. She is currently attending McGill Law School in Montreal, Canada. |
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Steven Salotti received his B.S. in Criminology from The College of New Jersey in December of 2004. |
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Anja Schröder was born and raised in Munich, Germany, where she pursued a joint program in Journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) and the German School of Journalism (DJS). Anja's interest in criminology began at the age of 21 when she had an interview with a criminal offender on parole. While at the LMU, Anja specialized in Constitutional Law and completed her final thesis in Political Science on politicized criminal justice in the former German Democratic Republic. During her last two semesters, she worked part-time as a news editor with a German publishing house. At the end of 2003, she applied to the Postgraduate Program in Criminology at the University of Hamburg. After having been admitted she was awarded a scholarship from the German daily "Süddeutsche Zeitung". During the summer of 2004, she interned with the Drug Squad at Hamburg's Criminal Investigation Department. Her final thesis at the University of Hamburg is on the phenomenon of suicide attacks, and she has become interested in the study of terrorism. Anja came to Penn with a scholarship from the German Government and the German National Academic Foundation for graduate study in the United States. |
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Barry Schwartz
bschwar1@swarthmore.edu |
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Diane Scott is from California and graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S. in Psychology. As an undergraduate, Diane interned for the Bureau of Justice Assistance. |
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Lori Sexton graduated from Cornell University in 2005, with a B.S. in Human Development. Her senior honors thesis examined the correlates of female sexual orientation and identity in women ages 18 to 24. After completing her Masters degree, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in either Criminology or Clinical Psychology. She is interested in the psychological and social factors behind criminality, as well as protecting the rights of those who are involved in the criminal justice system. |
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Dr. Louise Shelley
lshelle@american.edu |
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Jane A. Siegel
jasiegel@camden.rutgers.edu |
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Robert Allan Silverman
ras6@post.QueensU.CA |
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Beatrix A. Siman
bsiman@american.edu |
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Simon I. Singer
s.singer@neu.edu |
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Anita Singh, from Dallas, Texas, received a joint degree between the Criminology Department and Penn Law School. Anita graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Southern Methodist University in 2001, after two and a half years. She earned a B.S. in Sociology and a B.A. in English. While at SMU, she also managed a casual family restaurant full time. After graduation, Anita took an associate position with the Boston Consulting Group's Dallas office, where she was a strategic management consultant in the Energy, Retail, and Technology practice areas. Anita enjoys working in the nonprofit sector as well; she worked on several pro bono teams at BCG, focused on inner city revitalization and nonprofit growth strategies, and has contributed time to the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Dallas for the past three years. In her spare time, she is a certified kickboxing instructor, teaching several classes per week. |
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Saskia Karen Subramanian
saskia@ucla.edu |
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Erika Summers-Effler
erika.m.summers-effler.1@nd.edu |
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Lindsay Suttenberg graduated Order of the Coif from Washington University School of Law in 2004. She is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and recently worked as an Assistant Prosecutor at the Middlesex District Attorney's Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2001, Ms. Suttenberg graduated from Washington University in 2001 with a joint degree in Psychology and English. Prior to graduating from law school, Ms. Suttenberg was a summer intern at the Camden County Prosecutor's office (Megan's Law Unit) and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office (Homicide Bureau), and was a summer associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Chicago (Litigation Dept). While in her last semester of law school, she worked full time at the Department of Justice, Criminal Appellate Division, in Washington D.C. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania's Masters in Criminology program in December 2005. |
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Naoya Tani is from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from University of Tokyo, Japan, with a LL.B. degree in 2001. After passing the Japanese Government Public Service Senior A Class Examination, he joined the National Police Agency of Japan. Naoya comes to us with a scholarship from the Japanese Government for graduate study in the United States. In his first year at the US, he studied at University of Pennsylvania Law School and obtained a LL.M. degree in May, 2005. His main field of study was criminal law and criminal procedure. |
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Terence P. Thornberry
terence.thornberry@colorado.edu |
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Kunio Tomihari received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. He is from Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from the University of Tokyo with a LL.B. in 1997. He also received a LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2004. Before coming to Penn, he was an assistant judge of the Tokyo District Court and handled criminal cases, rendered judgments of conviction or acquittal and fixed the type and amount of punishment in a sentence as a member of a three-judge-panel. |
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Paul Edwin Tracy
drptracy@airmail.net |
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Sarah Vaghari is from Downingtown, Pennsylvania -- a western suburb of Philadelphia. She graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in English. Sarah began writing for her college newspaper, The Observer, her sophomore year. The following two years she served as Opinions Editor. Outside of Fordham, Sarah interned at the Delaware County, Pennsylvania District Attorney's office. It was this particular experience that piqued her interest in criminology, and, in effect, changed her life. Sarah also volunteered at Community Voices Heard, a Harlem-based organization dedicated to bringing low-income families together to fight for welfare reform. |
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Dr. Mary E. Vogel was appointed Lecturer at King's College London in 2005. Since completing her doctorate at Harvard University, Dr. Vogel has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California and the University of Leicester. She has been named Bunting Fellow, Harvard University; Visiting Fellow and then Associate Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation; and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Dr. Vogel has written Coercion to Compromise: Plea Bargaining, the Courts and the Making of Political Authority (Oxford University Press, 2006) as well as a series of articles that explore the social and historical origins of plea bargaining. She is editing a volume, Crime, Inequality and the State (Routledge), which examines criminal justice policy in light of recent research about criminal careers and patterns of diversity and social exclusion. Dr. Vogel's work currently focuses on the role of law in the process of democratic state formation. She is also engaged in ongoing study of the historical development of conceptions and practice of rights as well as of the influence of law in processes of social class formation. |
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Charles Franklin Wellford
cwellford@crim.umd.edu |
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Linda Meyer Williams
lwilliams@wellesley.edu |
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Seokhee Yoon is from Seoul, Korea, where she graduated from Ewha Woman's University with a B.A. in Business Administration and a minor in Psychology. She first became interested in Criminology and Criminal Justice when she studied at the George Washington University as an exchange student during her junior year. After graduating in 2004, she worked in Marketing at General Motors for 2 years. Seokhee's research interests include victim justice and crime prevention, as well as special categories of crime, such as organized crime, terrorism, juvenile crime, and substance abuse.
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Benson Zak received his M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2005. He studied international relations in at University of Chicago; then went to law school at Rutgers University. He is currently an Inmate Services Development Specialist in the Philadelphia Prison System's Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Treatment. |
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