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A Journal of Research and Practice
ISSN: 1942-0927
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Editors
Timothy C. Hart, Ph.D.
Dr. Hart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also serve as the Director of the Center for the Analysis of Crime Statistics. Dr. Hart's areas of interest include survey research, applied statistics, geographic information systems (GIS), and victimization. Prior to joining the faculty at UNLV, he worked as a Statistician for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a Program Analyst for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and a Research Analyst for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO).
Paul Zandbergen, Ph.D.
Dr. Zandbergen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of New Mexico. He obtained his Ph.D. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Zandbergen considers himself a Geographic Information scientist with interests in both the fundamentals of GI Science as well as the applications of geospatial technologies to several fields, including water resources, spatial ecology, environmental health, and criminal justice. His current research has focused on issues of scale, error and uncertainty in spatial analysis, as well as on the robustness of spatial analytical techniques.
Associate Editors
Rachel Boba, Ph.D.
Dr. Boba is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Criminology and Criminal Justice department and author of the book, Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping. Her current research focuses on institutionalizing analysis, problem-oriented policing, and accountability structures in police organizations. From 2000-2003, Dr. Boba served as Director of the Police Foundation's Crime Mapping Laboratory. Prior to that, she worked as a crime analyst in Arizona for five years. She obtained both her MA and PhD in Sociology from Arizona State University.
Noah Fritz, Ph.D.
Dr. Fritz is an Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and is the former Deputy Director of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) and past President of the International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA). Dr. Fritz is also the founder and former Director of the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program (CMAP)—a Department of Justice sponsored training and technical assistance program. He has spent over 20 years studying and researching criminal justice issues. His professional experience includes being a youth advocate, juvenile probation officer, a research analyst for Arizona State University (ASU) and the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the first Crime Analyst and then the Information Management Bureau Commander for the Tempe (AZ) Police Department.
Kim Lersch, Ph.D.
Dr. Lersch is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida, Lakeland campus; and Interim Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. She is author of the book, Space, Time, and Crime; and is responsible for bringing the first crime mapping and analysis class to the USF Lakeland campus. Her primary area of research focuses on police practices, especially in the area of police misconduct. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Lersch as published several dozen peer reviewed journal articles and invited book chapters.
Terance Miethe, Ph.D.
Dr. Miethe is a Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His areas of interest include criminology, law, deviance, quantitative methodology, evaluation research and social psychology. He is the author of several books including Crime Profiles: The Anatomy of Dangerous Persons, Places, and Situations; Rethinking Homicide: Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations; The Mismeasure of Crime (Key Questions for Criminal Justice); and Simple Statistics: Applications in Social Research. Dr. Miethe was the recipient of the 1999 Barrick Award for the Outstanding Faculty Researcher at UNLV.
Jamie Price, Ph.D. (ABD)
Mr. Price is the President of SocialPhenom Inc., a research institute devoted to analyzing social phenomena. His research interests include but are not limited to: research methodologies, descriptive and inferential statistics, applied research, police effectiveness, next event forecasting and journey to crime. Mr. Price is a former GIS & Crime Analysis Specialist for the National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center – Rocky Mountain Region (NLECTC), where he was an instructor and course developer for the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program (CMAP). Prior to working with NLECTC, Mr. Price was an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Florida Atlantic University.
Jacob Stowell, Ph.D.
Dr. Stowell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University at Albany-SUNY. Dr. Stowell's research interests are guided by two general themes: communities and crime; and is specifically interested in the variation in patterns of violence across immigrant and non-immigrant neighborhoods. Most recently, his research has involved the use of tract-level data collected for a number of U.S. cities to test the question of whether immigration is associated with high levels of lethal and non-lethal violence, as theories of crime expect. Dr. Stowell is also involved in research projects with Dr. Ramiro Martinez (Florida International University), which examine both the spatial and temporal aspects of the immigrant/crime link.
Ron Wilson, M.A.
Mr. Wilson is currently directing the Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety Program (MAPS) at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in Washington, DC, which is responsible for exploring various aspects of the use of GIS and spatial data analysis in criminology and public policy. He worked on development of a Regional Crime Analysis GIS toolbox now used in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region, a software application which won Al Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government award in 2000. Mr. Wilson also applies spatial data analysis for criminological research projects, policy implementation analyses, methodology development for the evaluation of geographic profiling software, and public policy evaluation.