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- Heejong Jacob Joo, Ph.D.
- Chair and Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C116
- Office Phone: 661-654-3109
- E-mail: [email protected]
- C.V.
Dr. Heejong Jacob Joo is the chair and professor of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University-Bakersfield. Prior to joining the faculty at CSUB, he was a professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University (2005-2011), the director of the Justice Administration Program at the Southwest Minnesota State University (2002-2005) and the chair of the Department of Corrections at Kyunggi University in South Korea (1997-2001).
His academic specialties include: Crime Rates and Trends, Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation in Criminal Justice, Institutional and Community Corrections, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Statistics and Research Methods. His current research interests involve contextual analysis of crime and crime control, prediction of offender recidivism, institutional and community corrections, and the analysis of hot spots with crime mapping.
His research has appeared in major journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice such as Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Police Quarterly, and Crime, Law & Social Change. Dr. Joo is currently serving as the President of Korean Society of Criminology in America (KSCA). He is an active member of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Science, and International Congress on Criminology.
- Robert Fong, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C109
- Office Phone: 661-654-2434
- E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Robert Fong earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in Texas after completing an M.P.A from the University of South Dakota. In addition to having prior experience as a correctional officer and deputy sheriff, Dr. Fong served as a special monitor, from 1984 through 1988, for the Texas Department of Corrections overseeing departmental compliance with the consent decree resulted from the historic prisoner class action suit of Ruiz v. Estelle, 679 F.2d 1115 (5th Cir. 1982). Before joining CSUB in 1991, Dr. Fong was a tenure-track faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and later East Carolina University. Since his arrival at CSUB, Dr. Fong has taught courses in Criminal Law, Courts, Corrections, Theories, Ethics, Gangs, Drugs & Crime, Research Methods, and the Senior Seminar class. He was Chair of the Criminal Justice Department from 1994 through 2009. Dr. Fong's research interests include prison gangs, ethnic street gangs, and school violence, which have yielded numerous publications and book reviews in refereed journals. Dr. Fong has also fostered strong and on-going relationships with the local community by serving on a number of prominent law enforcement boards and as a consultant to local school districts on police-community partnership grants and after-school programs..
- Reem Abu-Lughod, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C123
- Office Phone: 661-665-6792
- E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Reem A. Abu-Lughod is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University-Bakersfield (CSUB). A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington (M.A., 2001; Criminology & Criminal Justice and Ph.D., 2006; Urban Policy & Public Administration-emphasis in criminology and criminal justice), Dr. Abu-Lughod joined the CSUB Criminal Justice Faculty in Fall 2006.
Over her academic career, she has been actively involved with the State Department in conducting cultural and religious sensitivity training for troops that were being deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian/Israeli territories. She is also a certified instructor in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Currently, Dr. Abu-Lughod serves as a voting Member of the Governing Board for the National Social Science Association (NSSA), an advisor for the Athletics Academic Advising Council (AAAC) at CSUB, a member and Presenter/Trainer for Kern Threat Working Group (KTWG) and a voting Member for the Intelligence Committee at CSUB. Dr. Abu-Lughod has published on issues involving the War in Iraq, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, Arab-Americans in the U.S., crime and the media, domestic violence among the Palestinian Refugee women population and crime in U.S. cities. Her most recent works focus on Arab Americans pre/post 9/11, the role of Arab women in the global arena, global terrorism and suicide bombers.
- Anthony Flores
- Assistant Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C115
- Office Phone: 661-654-6794
- E-mail: [email protected]
Anthony Flores is an assistant professor at the California State University, Bakersfield. He earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno, an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Flores teaches undergraduate level courses in the areas of research methods and statistics, corrections processes and systems, gangs, and criminological theories. Mr. Flores also provides technical assistance with offender risk and need assessment, case planning, and effective rehabilitative programming to both institutional and community based correctional agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. Recent publication topics include the effectiveness of intensive supervision programs, offender risk/needs assessment, and effective rehabilitative strategies for both juvenile and adult offender populations.
- Doris Hall, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C117
- Office Phone: 661-654-3121
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Webpage: www.csub.edu/~dhall/
Doris Hall, a 5th generation Californian, received her Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Criminology from The Claremont Graduate School in Southern California. Hall McPhetridge serves as a lecturer at California State University at Bakersfield in the Criminal Justice Department. Dr. Hall McPhetridge conducted the first national study on the victims of stalking. The result of this groundbreaking victimology research has been the subject of numerous articles and has changed the way police forces deal with the crime of stalking.
Currently Dr. Hall McPhetridge is researching "Extreme Domestic Violence." This study is to identify the lethality risk factors for persons involved in domestic violence relationships in Kern County. Hall McPhetridge will examine cases where victims have survived attempted murder from an intimate partner. Many of these victims were hospitalized with nearly moral wounds, namely gunshot and/or stab wounds or strangulation. The goal of this academic study is to identify risk factors and create a set of practical guidelines for intervention. The overall intent is to save lives. Giving back to the community is a personal priority for Dr. Hall McPhetridge. She has been involved on campus and locally as: Lead Researcher and Member of the Kern County Domestic Violence Death Review Team; Board Member of Kern County Victim/Witness Auxiliary; CSUB Women & Gender Studies Committee; Faculty advisor to the Criminal Justice Club; and past Faculty advisor to the CSUB Women's Network. Most recently, Dr. Hall McPhetridge was nominated as a "Real Hero of Kern County" in the educator category.
- Dr. Steven Ellwanger
- Assistant Professor
- Office Location: DDH-C113
- Office Phone: 661-654-6791
- E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Steven J. Ellwanger received his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice in 1993 and Master of Public Administration and Policy in 1999 from the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2005, he earned his Doctorate in Criminal Justice from Washington State University.
His dissertation involved the development and validation of a social-psychological scale allowing for an extension and simultaneous test of General Strain and Self-Control in the context of traffic delinquency.
Dr. Ellwanger has a variety of teaching and research interests including Quantitative Methodology (Psychometric Theory, Structural Equation Modeling, and Meta-Analysis), Criminology, Justice Administration, and Policing.
He has most recently published in the areas of constitutional protections against 'cruel and unusual' punishment, ethics in policing, the role of strain and self-control in young driver accidents and driving delinquency, and domestic violence.
- Raymond Sparks, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor Emeritus
Dr. Raymond L. Sparks began his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in Fall 2001 after having completed a 24-year career in law enforcement in the State of Nevada beginning as a highway patrol officer. At the time of his retirement, Dr. Sparks was deputy director for public safety for the State of Nevada. Dr. Sparks held a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Master of Arts degree in English from San Francisco State University. His research in management and administration, particularly the measurement of police effectiveness yielded a number of publications in refereed journals. He taught Police Processes and Systems, Criminal Justice Policymaking, Issues, Values, and Ethics in Criminal Justice, and Drugs and Crime prior to his untimely passing on April 25, 2006. Dr. Sparks is being remembered as a first-class educator, an accomplished scholar, a most respected colleague, and a distinguished American.
- Lisa McQuin
- Department Coordinator
- Office Location: DDH C114
- Office Phone: 661-654-2433
- Office Fax: 661-654-2627
- E-mail: [email protected]