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Bynum, Tim, Ph.D.,received his doctoral degree from Florida State University in 1977 and became a professor in the School of Criminal Justice the same year. Current research includes the exclusionary rule and good faith exceptions to the exclusionary rule; community alternatives to incarceration; and narcotics impact assessment.  Other ongoing research is on juvenile diversion, victimization, and fear of crime.  General interests include decision making and public policy evaluation in police, court, and correctional programs.  Has several data sets for most of the above areas; interested students should meet with Bynum to learn about specific data sets.  Interest in evaluation design, research methods, and statistics. E-Mail Dr. Bynum at bynum@msu.edu . See Dr. Bynum's home page .
 
Carter, David, Ph.D., earned his doctoral degree at Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX, in 1980, and came to the School of Criminal Justice in 1985. Research interests include police administration and behavior.  Specific current interests include police education, international crime and justice, violent crime, community policing, law enforcement intelligence operations, and computer crime. E-Mail Dr. Carter at carterd@msu.edu.  

Chermak, Steven, Ph.D. joined the School of Criminal Justice in Fall 2005. His research and teaching interests include the presentation of crime in the news media, terrorism, evaluating criminal justice interventions, and criminal justice administration theory. Some recent publications in these areas include Searching for a Demon: The Media Construction of the Militia Movement (Northeastern University Press, 2002), Media Representations of 9-11 (Praeger Publishers, 2004), and Famous American Crimes and Trials Volumes 1-5 (Praeger Publishers 2005). Recent articles have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Police Quarterly, and the Journal of Criminal Justice. He is currently the principal investigator of a National Institute of Justice funded experimental evaluation to examine the effectiveness of offender notification programs. E-mail at chermak@msu.edu

Conner, Maureen, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice. She is the director of the Judicial Administration Program, which awards credit-bearing and noncredit-bearing certificates and a masters degree specialization in judicial administration. Maureen is also the executive director of the Judicial Education Reference, Information and Technical Transfer (JERITT) Project, which collects, analyzes, and publishes information related to the education and training of judges and court personnel in the United States. Her doctorate degree is from Michigan State University in sociology where she pursued two interests: the intersection of race, class, and gender and the sociology of work related to how emerging occupations gain professional status. For over fifteen years, Maureen worked in two state court systems before coming to Michigan State University. Her research, publication, and consultation interests are related to the effect of ongoing education and training of judges and court personnel on individual job and court organization performance and professionalism; the administration of justice; international rule of law and the education and training of judges and court managers; and evaluation and needs assessment. Maureen is also a consulting faculty member to Women in International Development (WID) at MSU. E-Mail Dr. Conner at connerm@msu.edu.

Corley, Charles, Ph.D., earned his doctoral degree at Bowling Green State University in 1986. He came to the School of Criminal Justice in 1990. He is currently pursuing research in the areas of substance abuse, marital disruption, delinquency and race/ethnicity and crime.  General interests include evaluative policy research, demography, and research methodology.  E-Mail Dr. Corley at corley@msu.edu. Dr. Corley's home page is at: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~faculty/corleypg.html  

DeJong, Christina, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Maryland, where she also received her masters degree in Criminology. Research interests include quantitative methods in criminal justice and criminology, gender and race discrimination in the criminal justice system, recidivism, and the effects of sanctions on recidivism.  E-Mail Dr. DeJong at dejongc@msu.edu . Visit Dr. DeJong's home page at: http://www.msu.edu/~dejongc/  

Dow, Steven J.D., Ph.D., joined the School of Criminal Justice in 1998 after being on MSU's business school faculty for 19 years.  He earned a J.D. from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.  He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Business School and Department of Political Science (2000-03).  He has written a number of articles on forgery and private security. He has also published in the areas of legal procedure, court structure and function, and constitutional law. His current areas of interest include sociolegal studies, legal theory (modern and postmodern), legal history, white collar crime, constitutional law, economic analysis of law, legal aspects of security management, and civil liability arising out of crime and law enforcement activities. E-mail Dr. Dow at stevedow@msu.edu . See Dr. Dow's home page at: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~faculty/dowpg.html  

Foran, David, Ph.D., came to MSU in 2002, and is the Director of the Forensic Science Program as well as head of the Forensic Biology Laboratory. Before arriving at MSU, Dr. Foran developed the forensic biology track in the Department of Forensic Sciences at the George Washington University in Washington DC. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1988, was then a Post-doctoral Fellow at McGill University in Montreal, and a Research Associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Forensic Biology graduate program at Michigan State University (http://forbio.msu.edu/) is a joint curriculum of the School of Criminal Justice and the Department of Zoology. Research in the laboratory focuses on designing and perfecting techniques that help advance the fields of forensic biology and forensic molecular biology. Researchers work to develop a better practical and theoretical understanding of methods currently used in State, Federal and private forensic laboratories. The research encompasses both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, and while the primary focus is on the human species, work is performed on trace evidence from domestic animals that may exist at a crime scene, and wildlife species that are endangered, threatened, or otherwise at risk. Cases of historical interest are also undertaken, through molecular examination of crime scenes and exhumed bodies, such as the Lab’s work on the Boston Strangler and missing Lindbergh baby. You may e-mail Dr. Foran at foran@msu.edu. The forensic science web site can be viewed at: http://www.forensic.msu.edu/.

Gibbs, Carole, is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in the School of Criminal Justice and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Her most recent research involves studying the relationship between corporate citizenship, sanctions, and environmental performance. Her other research interests include criminological theory, corporate crime, intersectionality, environmental crime, and environmental justice. You may e-mail Dr. Gibbs at gibbsca1@msu.edu.

Hawkins, Homer,Ph.D.,received his doctoral degree from Michigan State University in 1971, and began his tenure in 1982. Dr. Hawkins splits his time between the School of Criminal Justice and Urban Affairs. Several areas of interest include juvenile delinquency and corrections. Current research has focused on police use of deadly force, use of drugs by juveniles and its relationship to violent crime.  He has data on the use of deadly force by police in Detroit and the relationship of use to violence in urban Michigan.  Police officer burnout is also a research interest. E-Mail Dr. Hawkins at homer.hawkins@ssc.msu.edu .  

Hoffman, Vince, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice. He joined the School in 1978, and earned his doctoral degree from Michigan State University in 1979. General areas of interest include adolescent development, the family as affecting youth deviance and its handling in the formal control system (court, school, etc.), juvenile and adult corrections, and cross cultural criminology.  Current research focuses on youth awareness of values as related to delinquency; youth needs inventory in cross-cultural perspective (Japan, Korea, U.S., Ireland); developmental needs of adolescence and their relationships to youth deviance; attachment/separation and youth deviance.  Data sets include parent education and delinquency prevention, parent child relationships and youth behavior (cross-cultural).  E-Mail Dr. Hoffman at hoffmanv@msu.edu . For further information, please go to Dr. Hoffman's home page .  

Hudzik, John, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice.  He is also Dean of International Studies and Programs at MSU.  He earned his doctoral degree in Political Science from Michigan State University in 1971, joined the School of Criminal Justice in 1974 in a research appointment and in 1977 as a faculty member.  His on-going research interests include organizational and system planning, budgeting and personnel administration.  He is frequently a consultant to police and court agencies in the United States and in numerous other countries and publishes regularly on budgeting, resource management, and judicial education. He is a leading expert in court administration (especially financial management and strategic planning) and in continuing judicial education for judges and court-system personnel (http://jeritt.msu.edu/ ).   He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Australia in 1977 and continues to conduct research and build University initiatives in Asia, Australia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.  He conducts study programs and internships in Australia for qualified criminal justice undergraduates and graduate students.  E-Mail Dean Hudzik at hudzik@msu.edu.

Maxwell, Christopher, Ph.D., received his doctorate in 1998 from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark.  General research interests include the social control and criminal justice processing of intimate violence and hate-motivated crimes, the efficacy of aggression and delinquency prevention programs, and the impact of social and ecological contexts on criminal justice decision-making.  Current research projects include several experiments that are testing different criminal justice mandated treatment programs for spouse abusers; a re-analysis of the six experiments that collectively tested for the deterrent effect of arrest on spouse abusers; an evaluation of a delinquency prevention program that focuses on families and children of incarcerated adults; and, a study of the impact of various ecological contexts on individual level judicial decision-making.  E-mail Dr. Maxwell at cmaxwell@msu.edu or visit his home page.

Maxwell, Sheila Royo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School.  She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1994.  Before coming to Michigan State, Dr. Maxwell was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Development Research Institutes Inc., and taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at St. John’s University in New York City.  Her current areas of interest are: sanctioning processes and attitudes towards sanctions, community corrections, youth antisocial behaviors and delinquency, and cross-cultural criminology.  Recent publications appeared in: the International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Sociological Inquiry, Criminology, and Crime and Delinquency . Dr. Maxwell has received grants from local and Federal sources, including the National Institute of Justice and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Maxwell at maxwel22@msu.edu or visit Dr. Maxwell's home page .
 
McGarrell, Ed, Ph.D., McGarrell joined the School as Director in August 2001.  Previously he was a faculty member at Indiana University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice from 1996-2000. He was Director of the Crime Control Policy Center at the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute where he currently is an adjunct senior fellow. McGarrell’s research interests are in the area of communities and crime. McGarrell received his BA from Mansfield University and his MA and Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York. For more information, go to Dr. McGarrell's home page or e-mail him at mcgarrel@msu.edu

Morash, Merry, Ph.D., is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice. She recently stepped down from the Directorship of the School after 10 years of leadership. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Maryland in 1978 and came to the School in 1980. She was Director from September 1991-August 2001. General areas of interest include causes of delinquency, operations of the juvenile justice system, and women in the criminal justice system (victims, employees, offenders).  Ongoing research on women in policing, causes of wife battering and programs for female offenders.  Research on wife abuse includes an international focus.  Interest in both quantitative research methods and statistics and qualitative approaches.  Visit Dr. Morash's home page , if you would like further information, including opportunities for research mentorship, independent study, and thesis and dissertation research.  E-Mail Dr. Morash at morashm@msu.edu.

Nalla, Mahesh, Ph.D., joined the School of Criminal Justice in 1992 as an Assistant Professor. He received his doctoral degree from State University of New York in 1988. Research interests include corporate deviance, private security, comparative criminal justice, and issues pertaining to nontraditional policing.  Current research projects include, public perceptions of private security, the relationship between private security and public law enforcement, and security in the emerging markets.  E-Mail Dr. Nalla at nalla@msu.edu or visit Dr. Nalla's home page at: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~faculty/nallapg.html.

Pizarro, Jesenia, Ph.D., received her doctoral degree in Criminal Justice from the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark, in 2005. Her dissertation work concentrated on the social ecology of homicide. She previously worked in the Police Institute at Rutgers University as a Research Associate. Her research focuses on the social ecology of homicide and corrections policy. Her general areas of interests include the social ecology of violent crime, homicide victimization and perpetration, corrections policy, international and transnational crime, and how varying countries successfully deal with their crime problems. E-mail Dr. Pizarro at pizarros@msu.edu or visit her home page.

Roush, David W., Ph.D. is the Director of the NPJS Center for Research & Professional Development, and a faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Dr. Roush has provided leadership in institutional programs and services for juveniles and staff since 1971. He was the lead consultant to the NJDA/OJJDP Personnel Improvement Project and served as the Director of the Calhoun County Juvenile Home, where he developed the nationally acclaimed Intensive Learning Program (ILP) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation sponsored Holistic Environmental Life-skills Projects (HELP). These programs received the OJJDP Certificate of Merit and the OJJDP Gould/Wysinger Award, respectively. Contact Dr. Roush at: roush@msu.edu

Sevigny, Eric L., Ph.D., earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in 2006. Dr. Sevigny's research interests lie in the area of drug policy with an emphasis on the intersection of drugs and crime, sanctioning and treatment outcomes, and international control. Recent publications examine the characteristics and sanctioning outcomes of imprisoned drug offenders.Contact Dr. Sevigny at: sevignye@msu.edu.

Smith, Christopher, J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice. After teaching political science at the University of Akron and the University of Connecticut/Hartford, he joined the School in 1994. He earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee and his doctoral degree in political science from the University of Connecticut. Within the broad areas of law and courts, recent and current projects include such topics as prisoners' rights, the Rehnquist Court, symbolic aspects of constitutional rights, and judicial policy making. He is the author of more than twenty books, including THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (11th ed., 2006, with George Cole), CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: MYTHS & REALITIES (2004), LAW AND CONTEMPORARY CORRECTIONS (2000), and COURTS AND PUBLIC POLICY (1993). E-Mail Dr. Smith at smithc28@msu.edu. Visit Dr. Smith's home page and his personal web page.

Terrill, William, Ph.D, Professor Terrill’s academic education includes a Ph.D. (2000) and M.A. (1994) from Rutgers University, and a B.S. from Penn State University (1992). Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan State, he taught at Northeastern University in Boston (2000-2005) and Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI) at Indianapolis (1999-2000). Professor Terrill’s research background and interests lie primarily in the area of policing, with a concentration on police use of force. He has worked on a variety of research projects involving numerous police agencies throughout the country.

Tobey, Scott, Scott Tobey joined the faculty of the School of Criminal Justice in January 2003.  He is the Unit Director of Emergency Response Solutions, an organization within the School that provides emergency response training and technical assistance to first responders in the public and private sector.  Tobey moved to Criminal Justice from his position as professor within the School of Labor and Industrial Relations when MSU created the Global Community Security Institute (GCSI).  Tobey is the Principal Investigator on two grants, one from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide training on hazardous materials, and the other from the state Department of Consumer and Industry Services to deliver training on Firefighter Survival to fire service personnel throughout Michigan.  He is also responsible for the development and delivery of emergency response training to Ford Motor Company facilities throughout North America.  Tobey previously served as a member of the State Emergency Response Commission and is currently a member of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 693.  He has been a member of the MSU faculty since 1979.

Waddell, Ruth, Ph.D. has recently joined the School as an assistant professor directing the Forensic Chemistry Program. She received her doctorate from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2003. Her research involved profiling illicit Ecstasy tablets based on the organic and trace metal impurities present, with the application of statistical and chemometric procedures for comparison. After completing her Ph.D., she spent two years as a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Her main research areas during this time involved building a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for chemical speciation applications and developing a method for the detection of explosive residues from a wipe material. E-mail Dr. Waddell at waddel10@msu.edu.

Zimmermann, Carol, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2006. Her research interests are juvenile justice, risk analysis, and public policies and organizations. Previously, she received her Masters in Public Policy from Ohio State University, and a her BA from University of Michigan. From 1991 to 2002 served as the Assistant Cabinet Director for the Ohio Department of Youth Services. In 2006, Zimmermann was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Citation at MSU. Visit Dr. Zimmerman's home page.

Research and Educational Specialists

Hipple, Natalie Kroovand, Ph.D., (Criminal Justice, Indiana University) joined the faculty in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University as a Research Specialist in June 2003. She is responsible for research coordination and data management for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) and the Law Enforcement Intelligence Program. Additional areas of research include restorative justice, arrestee drug abuse monitoring, evaluation of criminal justice programs, inmate re-entry, crime analysis, and attitudes toward crime and justice. Hipple has recently published an article in the Journal of Justice Research and Policy and has several forthcoming articles. Previously, she was the Director of the Crime Control Policy Center at Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute.

Mace, Robyn, Ph.D., joined the School in the fall 2004. In addition to her work on environmental crime, she is the School’s lead researcher in the area of food supply chain security, where MSU is a key partner in the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Food Protection and Defense. She is also contributing to our work in cybersecurity and intelligence analysis.

Schertzing, Phillip D., Ph.D., joined the outreach program in the MSU School of Criminal Justice in July 2002. Originally assigned as an academic specialist on the Critical Incident Protocol project to facilitate public-private sector partnerships in emergency preparedness and response, Phil also was appointed by the provost as director of the new MSU Global Community Security Institute.

Phil retired from the Michigan Department of State Police with the rank of inspector as the assistant commanding officer of the Emergency Management Division in June 2002. In that role, he also served as assistant deputy state director of emergency management and homeland security. A graduate of the 191st session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Phil also holds a doctoral degree in American History from MSU and a Master of Management degree from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. Recognized with several citations and awards for his work as the department's "unofficial" historian, Phil published a comprehensive history book in 2002 entitled Preserve, Protect and Defend: An Illustrated History of the Michigan State Police in the Twentieth Century. Phil also remains active as a member of the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA); the FBI National Academy Associates (FBINAA); and the Michigan State Police Command Officers Association (MSPCOA). Visit Phil's home page at: http://www.cj.msu.edu/~faculty/schertzingpg.html.