The week, The Criminology Academy hosts Professor Christopher Sullivan. We chat with Chris about his work on justice justice and delinquency, disproportionate minority contact (DMC), and being a journal editor for the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Chris is the incoming Director and Professor of the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. Prior to that he was Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, serving as Director of Graduate Studies for several years. He received his doctoral degree from Rutgers University in 2005. His main research interests include developmental and life-course criminology; juvenile delinquency and prevention policy; and research and analytic methods. He has published more than 90 academic articles and book chapters on justice and criminology-related topics. His recent work has appeared in the Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Children & Youth Services Review, Justice Quarterly, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Dr. Sullivan (with Dr. Kristina Childs) will publish Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice with Routledge Press in Fall 2021. He is also author of Taking Juvenile Justice Seriously: Developmental Insights and System Challenges (Temple University Press, 2019), which was recognized as Outstanding Contribution by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Developmental and Life Course Criminology in 2020. Prof. Sullivan has been named a 250th Anniversary Fellow at Rutgers University and a Fellow of the Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati based on his research and has received award recognition for his mentoring and teaching of graduate students and academic service. Since 2000, he has been data analyst or Principal Investigator (PI) on numerous federally or state-funded evaluations of diversion programs, treatment interventions, and juvenile drug courts. His recent research on developmental and life-course criminology and juvenile justice topics has been funded by the State of Ohio, National Institute of Justice, and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Prof. Sullivan has been Co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency since 2017.
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Get in touch with Chris Sullivan:
Texas State University Website // sullivc6 AT ucmail.uc.edu (TXST email coming) // Twitter
This is the book/article authored by Dr. Chris Sullivan that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Derek J. Mueller, Sullivan, Christopher J., & McManus, Hannah D. (2020). Disproportionate experiences in custody? An examination of minority youths’ outcomes in secure facilities. Justice Quarterly, 37(2), 332-357.
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