Profile

I came from the National Institute of Justice in Washington DC, and joined the faculty here at UCF in 1997. During my tenure here, I have served in a number of roles. These include graduate program director, department liaison to the PhD program in Public Affairs and Associate Dean in the former College of Health and Public Affairs. I also served as Associate Vice President with the Regional Campus Administration. In this role I was responsible for all the academic programs and schedule at our 11 teaching sites and 100+ faculty. I returned back to the department in 2018 and served as director of the department's newly minted PhD program for its first year.

• Policing
• Violence
• Technology

• Ph.D. Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati
• MA. Sociology, University of Louisville

• Statistics
• Policy
• Sex Offenders
• Applied Research Methods
• Suicide and Violent Crime
• Police Use of Force

• CCJ 3604: Mental Illness and Criminal Justice
• CCJ 4690: Sex Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
• CCJ 4661: Ritualistic Crime Investigations
• Theory and Philosophy of Punishment
• CCJ 4746: Data Analysis in Criminal Justice
• CCJ 3007: Origins of Criminal Justice