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bazemor@fau.edu
Department Chair and Professor
Gordon Bazemore is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Community Justice Institute, at Florida Atlantic University. His research has focused on juvenile justice and youth policy, restorative justice, crime victims, corrections, and community policing. Dr. Bazemore is the author of 65 peer-reviewed articles, 34 book chapters, 25 monographs and technical reports, and numerous other publications. He is first author of three books on juvenile justice reform: Juvenile Justice Reform and Restorative Justice: Building Theory and Policy from Practice (with Mara Schiff; Willan Publishing); Restorative Juvenile Justice: Repairing the Harm of Youth Crime (with Lode Walgrave; Criminal Justice Press) and Restorative and Community Justice: Cultivating Common Ground for Victims, Communities and Offenders (with Mara Schiff) (Anderson Publishing). He was recipient of Florida Atlantic University’s Researcher of the Year Award in both 1995 and 1999.
Dr. Bazemore has 30 years experience in juvenile justice practice, research and training/technical assistance, and he has directed research and action projects funded by the National Institute of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other public and private agencies. He served as a consultant, researcher and trainer to the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services’ (HRS) initiative on juvenile pre-adjudicatory detention reform (as prescribed in the FL Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1990). As part of this initiative, Dr. Bazemore conducted research, prepared publications, and made presentations on the impact of implementation of detention screening criteria and reforms on culture and climate in Broward and Dade county detention facilities. He is a former member and co-chair of the Florida Juvenile Justice Standards and Training Commission, and a founding member of the Florida Supreme Court work group on Community and Restorative Justice (initiated by Justice Barbara Pariente).
Since 1993, Dr. Bazemore has been the Director of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project funded by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has advised and provided training and technical assistance to more than 30 states and several federal agencies on juvenile justice, offender reentry, restorative justice, and victim services reform. He has been a keynote speaker at more than 40 state juvenile and criminal justice conferences in the past decade, and has spoken on these topics at national and international conferences in Northern Ireland, Germany, Bogota, Australia (Melbourne, Canberra, Queensland), Canada, Belgium, and Brazil. In 1999, as part of the centennial celebration of the founding of the first juvenile court in the United States, Dr. Bazemore prepared and presented a monograph (one of three addressing the past, present, and future of the court) entitled “The Juvenile Court and the Future Response to Youth Crime: A Vision for Community Juvenile Justice,” at the National Counsel of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, National Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Juvenile Court. |
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Dr. Bruce Arneklev
barnekle@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Bruce J. Arneklev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. His major research interests include quantitatively testing recent theories of crime, especially those related to the concept of "self-control." Dr. Arneklev's publications have appeared in such scholarly journals as Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Social Forces. Some of his more recent courses he has taught include: Corrections, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, and Research Methods. Dr. Arneklev teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is particularly concerned with ensuring that students in criminology and criminal justice have a sound research methods background. |
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Dr. Rachel Boba
rboba@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rachel Boba is an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Criminology and Criminal Justice program. At FAU, she teaches methods of research, criminal justice systems, crime prevention, problem solving, and analysis in policing as well as conducts research in the areas of problem solving, problem analysis, crime analysis, regional data sharing, and technology in policing. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Boba was Director of the Police Foundation's Crime Mapping Laboratory where she directed federally funded grants in the areas of crime analysis and crime mapping, problem analysis, and school safety. Prior to her position at the Police Foundation, she worked as a crime analyst at the Tempe, Arizona, Police Department for five years where she conducted a wide variety of crime analysis and crime mapping work as well as applied research and evaluation. She holds a PhD and an MA in sociology from Arizona State University and a BA in English and sociology from California Lutheran University. |
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Dr. Adam Dobrin
adobrin@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Adam Dobrin earned Bachelor's Degree from the College of William and Mary in 1991. Earned Master's in Criminology from Univerisity of Maryland in 1993, and a Ph.D. in criminology in 1998. His research interests focus on violence, guns, data quality, and examining crime through a public health model. His teaching interests include research methods, police, violence, criminal and juvenile justice systems, and theory. |
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hinduja@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Sameer Hinduja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University. He works nationally and internationally with the private and public sector to reduce online victimization and its real-world consequences. His research has been featured in hundreds of print and online articles around the world, as well as on radio and TV. Dr. Hinduja has written two books, and his interdisciplinary research is widely published in a number of academic journals. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board for the Internet Safety Task Force at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has given presentations for a range of audiences including Fortune 500 companies, federal law enforcement, and NGOs. |
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kalinich@fau.edu
Professor
Dr. Dave Kalinich joined the FAU community in January of 2002 as Chair of the Criminology/Criminal Justice Department. Dr. Kalinich received his Doctorate Degree in Social Sciences (economics, political science, & criminal justice) from Michigan State University in 1978. His undergraduate studies are in the areas of economics and human relations. Dr. Kalinich served on the criminal justice faculty at Michigan State University for 18 years, as Criminal Justice Department Chair at Northern Michigan University for 6 years. He also served as the criminal justice graduate school coordinator at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan for 3 years before accepting the position at FAU. Dr. Kalinich has published a number of books and articles in the field and has an extensive background in planning and providing training programs to criminal justice professionals. He also worked as an adult parole officer for a ten-year period for the State of Ohio prior to his academic career. |
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Dr. Christina Mancini
Assistant Professor
Dr. Christina Mancini received her B.S. (summa cum laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has published in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Crime and Delinquency on such topics as public views about juvenile justice, supermax prisons, and concern about crime. One of her recent studies, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of Criminal Justice Policy Review, involved analysis of public support for taxes to provide programs and services for incarcerated offenders. She currently is involved in studies of sex offender policies and public views toward crime, the death penalty, and criminal justice policy. Dr. Mancini is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. |
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rmangan@fau.edu
Instructor
On January 3, 1995, after twenty five years as a Special Agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Professor Mangan made the decision to retire. His career with DEA had included assignments as a Special Agent/Criminal Investigator in Washington, DC, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, as Chief of the Financial Intelligence Section at DEA Headquarters in Washington, DC, as a Group Supervisor in San Francisco, CA, and as the Agent in Charge of the DEA Office in Atlantic City, NJ. During the last three years of his career (1992-1995), hehad the good fortune to be assigned as the DEA Liaison Officer to the Washington National Central Bureau of INTERPOL--the International Criminal Police Organization. This last assignment gave him with the opportunity to attend conferences and meetings all over the world, and to interact with the law enforcement agencies of the 174 member countries of INTERPOL. It also provided a fascinating look at the inner workings of foreign criminal justice systems.
On January 9, 1995, Professor Mangan began teaching as an Adjunct Professor in FAU's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Since then, he has become a full time instructor in the department. One of the more enjoyable experiences that he has had here at FAU, has been the opportunity to serve as the faculty advisor to the American Criminal Justice Association and Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honorary society.
Professor Mangan's academic interests include the criminal justice system's response to organized crime, the problems associated with illicit drug control and the growth of transnational crime and international law enforcement. |
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Dr. Charles Massey
massey@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Charles Massey, Associate Professor of the Criminal Justice Department, joined the FAU faculty in 1979. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Criminology from Florida State University.
Dr. Massey has held positions in academia, the public sector, and the military. His major areas of interest are criminology theory, social ecology of predatory violence, and methodology. He teaches a variety of classes for the department.
Dr. Massey has published numerous articles dealing with homicide, delinquency, and police shootings. He has participated in variety of professional meetings as a panelist, guest speaker, and presenter. In addition, he currently serves as the Chair for the Research Committee of the Palm Beach County Crime Prevention Task Force. |
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Dr. Amy Reckdenwald
areckden@fau.edu
Assistant Professor
Dr. Amy Reckdenwald is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, her Master's degree in Criminology from the University of South Florida in 2004, and her Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Florida in 2008. Her research interests include intimate partner homicide, domestic violence, race and gender issues, and capital punishment and sentencing. At FAU she teaches Research Methods, Criminological Theory, and Domestic Violence. |
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mschiff@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Schiff received her Ph.D. in Public Administration from New York University in 1992 and is currently Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University where her research and publications are in restorative and community justice, substance abuse and juvenile justice. Dr. Schiff is also the Program Coordinator for the Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice Program. Dr. Schiff's articles have appeared in The Justice System Journal, Criminal Justice Review and Western Criminology Review. In addition, Dr. Schiff has also completed an edited volume (with Dr. Gordon Bazemore) entitled RESTORATIVE COMMUNITY JUSTICE: Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities, published by Anderson Publishers in 2001. She is currently completing two major grants (from the National Institute of Justice and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) examining restorative conferencing for youth in the United States. Dr, Schiff is involved in a variety of projects to promote and implement restorative community justice locally through victim-offender dialogue and conferencing, delinquency prevention, and other restorative community justice initiatives. Dr. Schiff is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the International Network for Research on Restorative Justice for Juveniles. In addition, she currently serves on the Broward County Juvenile Justice Board, and has served a consultant for the Balanced and Restorative Justice Project, the National Institute of Justice and other local and national organizations. |
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stinchco@fau.edu
Associate Professor
Dr. Jeanne Stinchcomb is an Associate Professor on the faculty of FAU's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her career includes 25 years of teaching experience in both college settings and training academies. She has also held various administrative positions on the staffs of federal, state, and local justice agencies ranging from the FBI in Washington, DC, to the Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Additionally, she serves as a consultant to such organizations as the National Institute of Corrections and the American Correctional Association. She has recently been appointed to chair ACA's national Correctional Certification Commission. Her research includes evaluations of training programs, boot camps, and state certification exams. In addition to graduate and undergraduate courses, she has conducted training on such topics as stress management, instructional techniques, program evaluation, ethics, leadership, needs assessment, and test construction. She has published two books with Prentice Hall: Introduction to Corrections and Corrections Today: 21st Century Challenges. She is also the author of ACA's correspondence course on Managing Stress: Performing under Pressure. Her articles have appeared in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Corrections Management Quarterly, American Jails, Corrections Today, and the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. |
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