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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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Jamie Burns is from Wayne, NJ. She is currently a senior undergraduate at Penn, submatriculating in the Masters of Science program in Criminology. Her undergraduate major is Psychology, because understanding people is fundamental to any profession. Over the past three summers, she has interned at a Criminal Defense and Civil Law firm in New Jersey. She has also interned with the Philadelphia Police Department, shadowing an Inspector and spending time in all of the different branches of law enforcement from crime scene investigation and analyzing samples at the crime lab and victim/witness protection and answering 911 calls at the “round house.” She graduated from Penn in 2008 with a B.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Criminology. |
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Holly Burns-LaRiche prepared for her academic endeavors at the Hathaway Brown School for Girls in Ohio. She followed her graduation from HB with study at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. While at Vanderbilt, Holly combined: sociology, psychology, history, political science, women's studies, and communications to construct her own interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in the Sociology of Criminal Behavior. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Holly plans to deepen her knowledge of the diverse context and people creating, fueling, and combating the world of crime. Holly plans to continue her work with domestic violence victims and to hopefully further her studies in a doctoral program. |
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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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Alexis Castellani is from Kingston, Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude from Saint Joseph 's University with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice and minor in Business. During her undergraduate career, she interned at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia and Barton Gilanelli & Associates, a Philadelphia public relations firm. She also studied abroad in Italy for a semester. |
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Mary M. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., MFT is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social
Welfare at UC, Berkeley. She is also a Research Criminologist at
the Institute of Human Development at UC, Berkeley. Her primary
research focuses on examining the origins of violent behavior in
male and female offenders, and in designing and testing
preventative interventions that may decrease the potential risk
for violence in intimate relationships. She has been a
practitioner in the field of family violence facilitating
batterers' intervention programs in cooperation with Adult
Probation and Parole Departments and victim service agencies. She
has recently co-authored a text, Randomized Controlled Trials: Design and Implementation for Community-Based Psychosocial Interventions (2009) with Phyllis Solomon and Jeffrey Draine.
Email: mcavanaugh@berkeley.edu |
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Robey Champine is from Old Lyme, CT and graduated Magna Cum Laude and Junior Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in psychology and Spanish from Smith College in May 2007. A Smith First Group Scholar and Sigma Xi honors student, Robey was active in Smith’s psychology department as President of the Psi Chi chapter, a student liaison, and as a research assistant in the areas of child developmental and abnormal psychology. As the Special Assistant to the City of Cleveland Law Director during the summer of 2006, she assisted in the psychological evaluation of alleged criminal subjects and published an article in the Cleveland Bar Journal. More recently, Robey spent the summer of 2007 interning in the Human Resources and Security Departments at General Dynamics – Electric Boat, a high-security nuclear engineering company. After graduation, Robey plans to enter a behavioral sciences career in federal law enforcement. |
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Joanna Champney spent her childhood living in Germany, but she now considers Delaware home. She attended the University of Delaware, majoring in political science. While an undergraduate, she served as President of Mortar Board Sr. National Honor Society and was an editor for the Delaware Politics and Law Review. While a student, she interned as a correctional counselor at a maximum-security men’s prison, where she participated in the process of interviewing inmates and determining their appropriate security classifications and treatment plans. She also worked as a research assistant at Stand Up for what’s Right and Just (SURJ), a non-profit criminal justice reform agency in Delaware whose primary focus is repealing mandatory minimum drug sentencing. Her research interests include criminal procedure, prison culture, and ex-offender reentry into the community. After obtaining her masters degree from Penn, she hopes to pursue doctoral studies with the goal of becoming a researcher or professor. She and her husband have two beautiful children. |
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Hsing-Chia Cheng is from Taiwan. She graduated from National Taipei University last year and majored in Real Estate and Built Environment, a concentrated field about Laws of Land, human with environment, urban planning, and many special survey skills, such as Cadastral Survey, and Geographic Information System (GIS). Her major did not directly connect with Criminology, but a Criminology class she took during her fourth year aroused her interest in the subject of crime. She is especially interested in the field of human behavior and environment. She would like to research how the environment affects people's behavior. Her goal is to build up a safety system in the community in Taiwan. This system can have a strong connection with the community, such as to enhance the control in the community, and to reeducate the pupil that has deviant behavior. |
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Ko-Lin Chin
kochin@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
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Hsiang-Chuan Chou is from Taiwan, R.O.C. She graduated from National Taiwan University in 2007 and earned B.S.’ in Psychology. During the four years in college, she not only concentrated on her major subjects of psychology but also actively took classes related to criminology. Through these courses she’s grown an interest in fields such as crime mapping, the motivation of committing crime, and criminal justice. She hopes that she can connect her interests in criminology with her psychology background, and intends to pursue related careers. |
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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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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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Hsiang-Chuan Chou is from Taiwan, R.O.C. She graduated from National Taiwan University in 2007 and earned B.S.’ in Psychology. During the four years in college, she not only concentrated on her major subjects of psychology but also actively took classes related to criminology. Through these courses she’s grown an interest in fields such as crime mapping, the motivation of committing crime, and criminal justice. She hopes that she can connect her interests in criminology with her psychology background, and intends to pursue related careers. |
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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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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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Shervin Dhanani is from New London, New Hampshire and graduated cum laude from Tufts University in 2007 with a B.A. in Philosophy and minor in Sociology. His interest in crime and deviance developed through his philosophy major, and he is pursuing a Masters in criminology to gain a more concrete understanding of the field. During college, he spent his full junior year abroad studying in Paris France, and he interned at the U.S. Secret Service New York Field Office as well as the New Hampshire State Police where he conducted criminal background checks on individuals purchasing firearms in the state. His areas of interest include but are not limited to youth gangs and police culture and conduct. Shervin ultimately hopes to pursue a career in federal law enforcement. |
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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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Josh Garber is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and is pursuing a joint degree (J.D./M.S.) in Law and Criminology. He received his bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Arizona in 2006, graduating magna cum laude. While in college, Josh interned at FEMA, NASA, and Merrill Lynch, and he was also a disc jockey for his school's college radio station. At Penn, he has pursued many extra-curricular activities, including editing the Journal of Animal Law and Ethics, competing in the National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition, and serving as Vice President for Academic Affairs of Lambda, Co-Chair of the Orientation Committee for the Class of 2010, Treasurer of the Penn Law Tennis Club, Member of the Faculty Appointments Committee, Graduate Student Representative for Penn's Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention Task Force, and Student Board Member of GALLOP (Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia). He is also a volunteer at Graterford Prison where he teaches classes on Criminal Law and Legal Research and Writing. Josh spent his first summer at Penn working for the law firm Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in Wilmington, Delaware and his second summer working for the law firms Jones Day (in their Palo Alto, California office) and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (in both their San Francisco and Palo Alto, California offices). Additionally, he spent one semester of law school working at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania as a Legal Research Intern. |
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Payal Garehgrat is native of Houston. She graduated from the University of Texas in May of 2006 with a degree in Finance/Business Honors and a minor in Spanish. She is about to begin her second-year at Penn Law in the Fall. During her first year of law school she became particularly interested in the theories and laws underlying our criminal justice system, particularly in regards to sentencing and punishment. |
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Kendra Gentry has kept her ears to the streets and her pen to the pad. As a crime and education reporter, she has written more than 200 articles for the Bucks County Courier Times, a daily newspaper in suburban Philadelphia. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Kendra graduated cum laude from the University of Florida in 2006 with a B.S. in Journalism, specializing in newspaper reporting. During college, she completed internships with two New York Times newspapers. She was also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, recognized as a Chips Quinn Scholar and received awards from UF's journalism school for professional excellence. Kendra recently joined Criminal Justice Journalists, the first national organization for crime and court reporters. CJJ is also affiliated with the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology. |
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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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Rhiannon Haddad is currently pursuing a joint degree in Law and Criminology. Rhiannon graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, earning a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. As an undergrad she worked in the Neuropsychiatry Department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, assisting in research concerning Schizophrenia, and both of her senior honors theses focused on modifying people’s perceptions of the mentally ill through the use of narrative. She has interned with the New York City Department of Investigation and for two summers at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Rhiannon hopes to enter a career in criminal law or federal law enforcement after completing her graduate work. |
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Jordan Hyatt is a Philadelphia native. He has undergraduate degrees, with honors, in Psychology and Education from the Pennsylvania State University. After graduation, he taught English and psychology in Sweden and worked in litigation support. A 2008 graduate of Villanova University School of Law, Jordan was a Public Interest Scholar and worked, at various times, for the United States Attorney, the Bureau of Prisons and the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House. Jordan currently sits on the editorial board of the ABA’s Criminal Litigation Magazine and works with the Pennsylvania State Sentencing Commission. |
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Kathrin Hennig was born and raised in Germany. She graduated from Marburg University, Germany with a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, and Sociology. While spending the academic year of 2003/2004 as an exchange student at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, she attended a Criminology class that piqued her interest in the field and changed her outlook on life and her thoughts in regards to her career goals and expectations. She is especially interested in finding out more about the social causes of crime such as class inequality, gender, and ethnicity, as well as the influence that the media, drugs, and video games have in the development of today’s growing violence, which steps are taken to prevent violence, and how effective they are. Upon graduation she would be especially interested in participating in criminological research concerning this and other matters in an internationl forum. |
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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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Keisuke Hosaka is from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the University of California, Davis, Law School (LL.M.) in 2007 and received bachelor of law from the University of Tokyo, in 2002. While in the law school, he pursued a comparative study of police conduct in the United States and Japan. He is currently a police inspector with the National Police Agency of Japan. He also works for Community Safety Bureau as a member of their legal staff. He has worked on two projects while in the bureau: introducing a new system to track sex offenders, and amending of the Firearms and Sword Control law. |
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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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Laura Kane is from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in May 2007. She double majored in Mathematics and French. Her time at Bryn Mawr was spent focused on Bryn Mawr’s America Reads/America Counts tutoring program. After her first year as a tutor, Laura moved up to the position of student coordinator where she and three other students ran the program. Also during her time at school Laura held such positions as Junior and Senior Dorm Representative, Recycling Representative for two years, and Junior and Senior Major Representative for the Mathematics Department. During the summer of 2008, Laura spent her time at Bryn Mawr College researching the topic of Wavelets. She hopes to use the logic of math to better analyze and understand crime, especially those crimes which occur within families. |
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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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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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Jennifer Kirchner is originally from Portland, Maine. She graduated with honors from Syracuse University in 2006 with a B.A. in Policy Studies and Political Science. During her undergraduate experience she worked with the Office of Judicial Affairs on campus and studied abroad in Strasbourg, France her junior year. Jennifer also interned for U.S. Representative Tom Allen (ME-1) in both his district and DC offices, where she took a special interest in judicial policy. After graduation Jennifer joined a public relations firm in New York City. While living there she served as a volunteer with the Women's Prison Association. Jennifer would like to work in a policy-making capacity at the federal level after her graduation from Penn. |
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Damon Knauss hails from Macungie, Pennsylvania. He graduated cum laude, B.S. Political Science/Pre-Law, from the University of Scranton, and earned his M.A. in Political Science at Lehigh University. As an undergrad, he worked for two years for United States Senator Rick Santorum. During graduate school, he worked full time as a clerk for Senior Judge John P. Lavelle at the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas. In 2005, Damon was appointed the investigator for the Office of the Public Defender and earned his advanced certification from the NDIA in Washington, D.C., certifying him as an expert in criminal defense investigations. Damon would like to pursue a career in the courts and believes his education thus far in law and politics combined with a Penn degree in criminology will arm him with the necessary tools to become a change agent for criminal justice policies especially in the often forgot and under funded area of public defense. |
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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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Katherine Lewis is from the New York metropolitan area and earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Brandeis University in May 2004 with a concentration in Law & Society and Health Policy. During her junior year, she was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Quantico, VA and worked closely with Supervisory Special Agents in the creation of curricula for new agents in topics ranging from fraud to bank robbery to violent crime. Since graduation, she has worked closely with law enforcement as a full-time paramedic with specialized SWAT and Marine medical training. |
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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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The Honorable Matthew T. Mangino is a member of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. He was appointed by Governor Ed Rendell and confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate on June 29, 2006. Mangino served two terms as the district attorney of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor of arts from Westminster College in 1985 and his juris doctor from Duquesne University in 1988. Mangino participated in the 1998 White House Conference on School Safety: Cause and Prevention of Youth Violence. He has published op-eds in The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Harrisburg Patriot-News and regularly in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and Youngstown Vindicator. |
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Cherie Marcus is originally from Riverside, California. She earned 2 B.A.'s in Criminology, Law and Society and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2004. During her undergraduate studies, Cherie was involved in Gamma Phi Beta, and was admitted to the Rho Lambda and Order of Omega Honor Societies. Since completion of her undergraduate work, Cherie has been employed at the University of California, Irvine in one of the on-campus housing departments, and has also continued working at a local private investigation firm. At the private investigation firm, Cherie has been able to observe the criminal justice system first hand. Admitted to the MS Criminology/MSW dual degree program, Cherie plans to identify crime prevention and research crime solution opportunities for 11-14 year old children. |
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Joshua Markman is from Voorhees, NJ, just over the bridge from Philadelphia. He is currently a senior undergraduate at Penn, submatriculating in the Masters of Science program in Criminology. His undergraduate major is Sociology, concentrating on the Sociology of Law and Deviance. Over the summer, He interned in the Legal Department of the Estee Lauder Companies Inc. where his focus was on Government Relations and Regulatory Law. After graduating from Penn in 2008 with a B.A. in Sociology and an M.S. in Criminology, he plans on attending law school. |
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Amanda Marzullo is pursuing a joint degree at Penn’s Law School, where she is a Public Interest Scholar in residence. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from New York University. During college she interned at the Fresh Air Fund, the Open Society Institute, and the U.S. State Department in Naples, Italy. After she graduated, she worked as a paralegal for the Capital Defender Office in New York for two years where she organized discovery for capital and non- capital first murder cases, investigated co-defendant This past summer, she interned for the Chambers Division of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha, Tanzania. |
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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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Elizabeth Meyer is from Washington, DC. She earned her B.A. in Classical Languages from Duke University in 2004. She is currently pursuing the M.S.W./M.S. Criminology dual-degree at Penn. After college, she worked as a paralegal for a white-collar defense firm. Her main interest is in juvenile justice advocacy and policy. Starting in the fall, she will be a graduate intern at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia. |
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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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Yu Murayama is a native of Japan. She graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. After graduation, she joined SECOM, Japan’s leading security company, and worked as its security officer at Narita International Airport for two and a half years. She has recently joined its research institute and is currently engaged in writing a crime prevention guidebook containing information about crime rates, trends, and prevention measures. Yu also served as a security officer at the Summer 2008 G8 Summit in Hokkaido. Yu’s research interests include general crime prevention as well as situational theories of crime and victimology. She’s particularly interested in developing effective but simple crime prevention measures for women based in real scientific evidence/statistics. |
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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
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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
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Caroline Nobo is from Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated in 2007 from Mount Holyoke College with a M.A. in Sociology. Her research with professors Richard Moran and Roland Chilton varied from death row exonorees to bias-based policing. She spent her summer working with the ASU Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety; continuing her research in law enforcement and racial profiling. During her undergrad career Caroline competed for Mt. Holyoke's national champion equestrian team and studied abroad in Ireland. This fall she is thrilled and honored to begin work with Karin Rhodes concerning domestic violence and family abuse intervention. Upon graduation in May 2008 she intends to receive her Ph.D. and then pursue a career with the FBI Behavioral Sciences. She's excited for Penn to broaden her criminology horizons and Philadelphia to do the same for her jazz skills. |
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Evelyn Nuñez was born and raised right across the Ben Franklin Bridge in Camden, New Jersey. The first in her immediate family to graduate from college, she is a 2007 graduate from Rutgers University in Camden where she double-majored in Sociology and Criminal Justice and graduated magna cum laude. She is also a proud member of Phi Beta Kappa and Camden College of Arts and Sciences Anthenaeum Honor Society. As a sophomore, she obtained an internship with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office and is still currently working for the Community Partnership unit. For three consecutive summers, she has assisted the program coordinator of the Criminal Justice High School Internship. Evelyn is extremely excited to be a Criminology student and is looking forward to the unique and prestigious opportunity of studying at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Andrea Nurko is originally from Easton , Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from The George Washington University in 2006. As an undergraduate, she majored in journalism with a minor in criminal justice and earned special honors for academic and professional achievement in journalism. She has interned for NBC’s Dateline, ABC-7 WJLA Investigative Team and wrote for the Palm Beach Post in addition to serving as section editor for the student newspaper. Since graduation, Andrea worked as the press secretary for a congressional candidate in Pennsylvania and more recently has been working as an intelligence analyst for a Department of Homeland Security task force that investigates money laundering in the New York area. |
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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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Amelia Peng is from Los Angeles, California. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Michigan with a B.A. degree in Psychology and Crime and Justice. During her undergraduate studies, Amelia worked as an assistant in research for an active Addiction Research Section at the University of Michigan's Department of Psychiatry. Amelia was also an active member of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. After receiving her M.S. degree from Penn, she plans to pursue a career in federal law enforcement, hopefully with the FBI or DEA. |
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Harold Eugene Pepinsky
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Jessi Peterson is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2008 with a double major in psychology and sociology. During her undergraduate career, Jessi was highly involved with Alternative Spring Break. Through this organization, she lived and volunteered in a homeless shelter in Los Angeles in 2006, and she led a group of students to do prison reform work in Oakland, CA in 2007. Jessi also spent a summer as an intern at her local district attorney's office. |
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Megan Piwonka grew up in Waxahachie, TX and graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in Psychology and Sociology. While at A&M she was awarded three Student Fellows positions performing literary research on domestic violence and juvenile delinquency and also worked as a research assistant in Cognitive Psychology. In 2005 she interned with the FBI under the Victim & Witness Assistance Program aiding victims of human trafficking. Throughout college she volunteered as a hotline counselor and hospital escort for a local rape crisis center. Megan is a member of Alpha Kappa Delta National Sociology Honors Society and Alpha Phi Omega. Recently, she worked for the Texas Youth Commission facilitating group therapy for juvenile offenders. Her professional interests are serial homicides, behavioral analysis, and treatment of violent and sexual offenders. In the future she plans to pursue a career in criminal investigative analysis. |
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Rebecca Pfeffer was raised bi-coastally - first in San Diego , California and then in Brookline, Massachusetts . She graduated from Pitzer College in 2005 with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. After graduating, she moved back across the country to New York City , where she taught science to children with emotional disturbances or autism in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She earned her M.S. in Education in 2007 at Pace University through the New York City Teaching Fellows. In 2007, she and her students won first place in an NYC citywide contest for a mural they painted themed "Working Together We Can Clean Up Our World", which she truly believes. She is interested in early childhood and school-based crime prevention. |
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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
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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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Miriam Popper graduated from Skidmore College with a major in Government and a minor in Law and Society. While at Skidmore, Miriam interned at the District Attorney’s office, the NY State Assembly and a halfway house for substance abuse recovery. After graduating Miriam moved to Burlington, Vermont where she has run an Offender Re-Entry Housing program for the past three years, working with individuals leaving the VT state prison system and helping them reintegrate into society. Miriam also serves on the executive board of the New England Council on Crime and Delinquency and volunteers on a Reparative Board in Burlington. Miriam is most interested in bringing academic research and recommendations to the practice level. |
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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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Michael Rosado recently graduated magna cum laude from Lock Haven University in three years with a B.S. in criminal justice. He currently resides in his hometown Lancaster, where he interned at the Lancaster City Police Station for a summer. He has also written a literature review comparing the CASA program and various guardian ad litem programs around the US. |
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Meredith Rossner is a graduate of Penn who has worked in London on the Jerry Lee Center's restorative justice experiments with New Scotland Yard. Her dissertation examines the re-entry of burglars and robbers who have been randomly assigned to meet with their victims in prison in restorative justice conferences. |
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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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Ashraf Zubair Siddiqui is a police officer from the Police Service of Pakistan. Recently promoted to the rank of Senior Superintendent of Police, he has served for about 12 years as an Assistant Superintendent and then Superintendent of Police/ Deputy Director. Presently, he heads a small unit in Karachi, called Special Investigation Group, in Federal Investigation Agency. He joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1996 and completed his trainings from the Civil Service Academy, Lahore and the National Police Academy Islamabad. He also graduated from the 221st Session of the FBI National Academy in 2005 from the FBI Academy Quantico, VA. |
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Samantha Salkin is from Florida. She graduated from the George Washington University last year and majored in Psychology and Criminal Justice. She worked for the National Center for Victims of Crimes (intern/volunteer) during her senior year, where her focus was on victim services. She also worked in a research lab for two years. The study focused on anxiety and depression in women and children. She is especially interested in the field of human behavior and victimology. She would like to research the impact on victims and their methods of recovery. |
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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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Kristin Schmidt is originally from Littleton, MA. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Colby College, in Waterville, ME in 2006. She has spent the last year working at Miss Porter's School, an all girls private boarding school in CT. She spent the year teaching psychology, working in the athletic office, and coaching soccer, skiing, and tennis. When not in class at Colby, she played competitively on the interscholastic soccer and tennis teams. During her junior year, she studied abroad in London, England. Her classes were specific to the law and justice systems of the United Kingdom. During her time at Colby she also enjoyed acting in the dinner theater, playing broomball, and acting as an RA. During January of her Junior year, she interned for the Littleton Police Department. She worked with them investigating robbery cases and sitting in on trials of drug dealers. She hopes to pursue a career in the DEA or FBI in the future. |
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Anja Schröder received her M.S. in Criminology from Penn in 2006. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation examining the phenomenon of suicide bombings at the Institute for Criminological Social Research at the University of Hamburg, where she has worked as a research assistant. Anja also holds an executive certificate in counter-terrorism studies from the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel, and a postgraduate degree in Criminology from the University of Hamburg. Before coming to Penn with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, Anja worked as a news editor in Germany with Hubert Burda Media from 2001 to 2004. She was educated at the German School of Journalism in Munich, and graduated summa cum laude from Ludwig-Maximilians-University with a major in communication science and minors in political science and constitutional law. |
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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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Gregory Shapiro graduated from The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities May 2007 with a B.A. in Sociology in Law, Criminology, and Deviance and a minor in Psychology. He spent the last two years working for the Council on Crime and Justice on their 24-hour Crisis hotline giving victim support and also acting as a liaison between the Minneapolis Police and the City Attorney's office during the night-time hours. Gregory's research interests include crime prevention and victim justice -- in particular domestic and sexual violence. After graduating from Penn, Gregory hopes to put his knowledge to immediate use with a career in criminal law or federal law enforcement. He plans on pursuing a law degree as well in order to become more well versed in the fields of Criminology and Law. When not studying, Gregory's hobbies include origami, running, and delighting in the joys of international foods. |
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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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Josh Silverman was born and raised in Potomac, MD and Georgetown. He graduated with a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Miami, where he also played soccer. At Miami, he also studied abroad in Spain. Since graduation, he has worked at a private security firm in DC. His interest in criminology was always strong, but peaked after 9/11 and he hopes to pursue a job in the federal government, preferably within security, after Penn. |
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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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Hee Jun Sohn was born and raised in South Korea until she felt a sudden desire to learn English at age 12 and study in U.S. She left her second hometown, California, and studied Political Science and East Asian Studies at Wellesley College in Boston, Massachusetts. She also had the opportunity to study in Waseda University in Japan, and Yonsei University in Korea as an exchange student during her college years. While attending Wellesley College and upon graduation in 2006, she had worked in a variety of fields such as a law firm, journalism, broadcasting and more. All her work was relative to Criminology and she always knew that she wanted to follow a career in the field. She is currently a member of Korean Police Studies Association and the Korean Association of Criminology. |
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David Strapp is from Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from The College of New Jersey in December 2007 with a B.S. degree in Criminology and Justice Studies and a minor in Biology. His interests include the juvenile justice system and corrections. He is currently working on an article with Dr. David Holleran, his TCNJ advisor. |
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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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Sudarak Suvannanonda is a government officer working for the Thai Ministry of Justice. Her responsibility concerns the development of a justice administration system and justice policy related matters. She graduated with a B.A. in International Relations from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and later obtained a M.A. in English Translation In 2005, she was appointed a representative of the Office to study the work of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington, DC. And she has been working on the establishment of a Thai Crime Victimization Survey and the Criminal Recidivism Record since then. In 2008, she received a full scholarship from the Thai Government to study Criminology in the US. |
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Kat Sweet was born and raised in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia. She graduated in 2005 from Harvard University with a BA in psychology. At Harvard, she competed in three NCAA national championship games with the women's ice hockey team, captaining the squad her senior year. After a brief stint playing professional hockey in Switzerland, she moved to Los Angeles where she further explored her interest in criminology.
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Tatsuya Tamagawa is from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto University with a B.A. in Sociology in 2002. After passing the Japanese Government Public Service Senior A Class Examination, he got a position in the National Police Agency of Japan. Now he is an inspector. In the National Police Agency, he served as a policymaker and engaged mainly in designing the national plan for crime prevention and in lawmaking. He enrolled in the UPenn's Graduate Program in Criminology last year as a M.S. student. He took a Master's degree and received the Excellence in Applied Criminology Award. This year, he joins in the M.A. program and wants to deepen his understanding of evidence-based criminology. After graduation, he plans to engage in crime prevention in the National Police Agency again, putting his knowledge to immediate action. |
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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
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Laura Tierney from Lincoln, Massachusetts graduated from The George Washington University in 2006 with a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Creative Writing. During her senior year she interned at with United States Marshal Service where she participated in the Warrant Squad and Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement (WAVE) task forces. For the past two years she has worked at Abt Associates Inc. on various criminal justice research projects. Outside of work, Laura is the goalie for a Washington, DC area soccer team and loves cheering on the Red Sox!
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Meghan Toles is originally from Upland, California. She attended the University of California, Irvine, where she received a B.A. in Criminology, Law, and Society, and a B.A. in Psychology and Social Behavior in 2007. During her time at UC Irvine, she was employed by the UC Irvine Police Department and was one of the coordinators for the Community Service Officer Program, which provided safety and crime information to the campus as well as the safety escort program. She also interned for the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Transitional Drug Abuse Treatment Program in Long Beach, California during hersenior year, where she assisted in monitoring newly paroled offenders’ drug and alcohol treatment regimens. She spent much time traveling throughout Europe as she studied law and psychology in the Netherlands during her junior year. Her ultimate goal is to work as a field agent for a federal law enforcement agency. |
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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
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Emily Turner is from Washington, DC. While working towards her B.A. in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Emily spent the spring and summer of her junior year studying abroad in London where she worked with the Justice Research Consortium conducting randomized control trials of restorative justice conferences for serious violent and property crime cases in the London Crown Courts. This work was the subject of her honors thesis. Since graduating, Emily has worked in the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center where she has served as a research assistant on a variety of studies investigating prisoner reentry, domestic violence, prison sexual violence, and the relationship between community organizations and crime. She has also served as part of the Urban Institute's research partnership with the Washington DC Project Safe Neighborhoods violence reduction team. Emily is dual degree J.D./M.A. in Criminology recipeint. |
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Tessa Upin is a native Philadelphian. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a B.A. in sociology, concentration in deviance and the sociology of law. Tessa's passion for learning about crime and prevention began her freshman year in college when participating in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program at Temple University. She subsequently pursued working as an assistant to Robert J. Murphy, Esq., a worker's compensation attorney, and interned with the Philadelphia Defender Association in the Community Court. Since graduating, Tessa was an intern-investigator for the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia and a paralegal at Kalijarvi, Chuzi & Newman, P.C. in Washington D.C., specializing in employment law. Tessa returned to Philadelphia and was most recently working as a case manager for United Communities Southeast Philadelphia in the South Philadelphia Regional Truancy Court and ran the CasaSTART after school program at a local middle school.
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Jacob Uriel is a native of New York City. He holds a B.A. in criminal justice from John Jay College and a J.D., with a concentration in criminal law, from Case Western Reserve University. In college, he interned for a New York State trial judge and the Manhattan District Attorney's office. During law school, he was a federal judicial extern in Puerto Rico, where he drafted criminal opinions for a federal judge. Later, as a legal intern at the New York City Police Department, Jacob worked on an innovative criminal forfeiture program. He then interned at the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, where he prosecuted misdemeanor cases and assisted in felony cases. Finally, he defended criminal clients at Case Western Reserve's law clinic. Jacob plans on becoming a prosecutor and hopes to use his education to better understand and influence criminal justice policy. His personal interests include travel and aviation. |
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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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Simone Weichselbaum is a staff reporter with the Philadelphia Daily News, where she has spent the last four years covering crime. Her work has led to a grand jury investigation into a funeral home suspected of illegally selling human tissue; exposed how youths in the juvenile probation system have committed murder while under the court's watch; and detailed the lives of teen crack dealers and why they are drawn to a culture of violence. Born and raised in Brooklyn , N.Y. , she received a BA in history from American University in Washington , D.C. , in 2003. As an undergrad, she interned as a reporter with the Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press in London . Simone hopes to apply her graduate studies to crime reporting. |
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Charles Franklin Wellford
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Linda Meyer Williams
lwilliams@wellesley.edu |
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Bryan Yip hails from the tropical garden city of Singapore, which incidentally is not part of China. He graduated with First Class Honors from University College London, with an undergraduate major in Economics. While he was fortunate enough to be awarded a full scholarship by the Singapore Police Force in 2004 to pursue both his undergraduate and postgraduate degree, Bryan will be compelled to serve out the next 6 years of his life with the Singapore Police Force – which is, contrary to popular belief, something he is very much looking forward to. |
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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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