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CEBCP at George Mason
Administration of Justice
301 Bull Run Hall (MS4F4)
10900 University Blvd.
Manassas, VA 20110
 

Phone: 703.993.4901
Fax: 703.993.8316

cebcp@gmu.edu
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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David Weisburd, Ph.D.
Director

Dr. David Weisburd holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished Professor in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University and also as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem.  In addition to his experimental and evaluation work on criminal justice interventions, Dr. Weisburd's key research interests include the criminology of places, policing, statistical methodology, and white collar crime.  He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.  He also serves as the Co-Chair of the steering committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, an international collaboration for advancing evidence based research, and a member of the Campbell Collaboration International Steering Group.  Professor Weisburd is also a member of the National Research Council Committee on Crime Law and Justice, and of the National Institute of Justice/Harvard University Executive Session in Policing. Professor Weisburd is author or editor of fifteen books and more than eighty scientific articles. He is editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology and serves on a number of journal editorial boards including Criminology, Crime and Justice, the Journal of Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.  Dr. Weisburd is also the co-Director of CEBCP's Research Programs on Crime and Place, Evidence-Based Policing, and Systematic Reviews.  (Curriculum Vitae) 

 

Cynthia Lum, Ph.D.
Deputy Director

Dr. Cynthia Lum is an assistant professor in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University.  Her research areas include international and domestic policing, crime prevention, the influence of places on criminal justice agents and offenders, and the evidence-base of counterterrorism interventions.  She has conducted the Campbell systematic review on counterterrorism interventions and has co-authored numerous articles about evaluation methods and practices in criminal justice.  She is currently the 2007-2008 National Institute of Justice DuBois Fellow. Dr. Lum is also the co-Director of CEBCP's Research Program on Evidence-Based Policing.  (Curriculum Vitae)

 

Senior Fellows

Stephen Mastrofski, Ph.D.

Stephen Mastrofsk is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Administration of Justice, and Director of the Center for Justice Leadership and Management at George Mason University.  His research interests include police discretion, police organizations and their reform, and systematic field observation methods in criminology.  Professor Mastrofski currently leads a team of researchers that supports the transformation of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.  He is also engaged in research projects on measuring the quality of street-level policing, measuring the lifecourse of police organizations, and assessing the impact of legitimacy-based policing. Professor Mastrofski has been a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Community Oriented Policing, and he has consulted for a variety of public and private organizations.  In 2000 he received the O.W. Wilson Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for education, research, and service on policing.  He served on the National Academy of Sciences panel on Police Services and Practices that published a book entitled Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing:  The Evidence.  In 2008 he and his coauthors received the Law and Society Association’s article prize for their article on Compstat. 

 

Faye Taxman, Ph.D.

Dr. Taxman, Professor at George Mason University Administration of Justice Department, is the Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence.  She was the PI for the Coordinating Center for the NIDA funded Criminal Justice National Drug Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) (www.cjdats.org) where she directed a national survey of practices in correctional settings. She is involved in several experimental studies. One such study explores the use of contingency management and incentive systems for drug-involved offenders. She is also the PI on two studies devoted to understanding adoption of science based practices in criminal justice and juvenile justice systems: a clinical trial to demonstrate the efficacy of a criminal thinking curriculum on the outcomes of substance abusing offenders and a clinical trial to understand the technology transfer practice that results in juvenile justice workers use of assessment tools in acquiring services for juvenile offenders. Dr. Taxman is the senior author of Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Incorporating Science into Practice, a publication of the National Institute on Corrections which provides a guidebook to implementation of science-based concepts into practice.   She is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Experimental Criminology and Journal of Offender Rehabilitation and has published articles in Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Journal of Drug Issues, and Evaluation and Program Planning. Dr. Taxman received the University of Cincinnati award from the American Probation and Parole Association in 2002 for her contributions to the field. She  was appointed to an Expert Panel to Advise Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on his prison and corrections crisis and the Pew Foundation’s Initiative on Improving Sentencing and Corrections.  (Curriculum Vitae)    
 

David Wilson, Ph.D.

David B. Wilson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University and co-Director of the Research Program on Systematic Reviews.  His Ph.D. is in applied social psychology from Claremont Graduate University.  His research interests are the effectiveness of offender rehabilitation and crime prevention efforts, program evaluation methodology, and meta-analysis. His researched has included a broad range of topics, including the effectiveness of juvenile delinquency interventions, school-based prevention programs, correctional boot-camps, court-mandated batterer intervention programs, and drug-courts; the effects of sugar on children's behavior; and the effects of alcohol on violent behavior.  He is an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology, a consulting editor for Psychological Bulletin, and was awarded the Marcia Guttentag Award for Early Promise as an Evaluator by the American Evaluation Association. (Curriculum Vitae)

 

Affiliated Faculty and Research Associates

Brian Lawton, Ph.D.

Dr. Brian Lawton is an assistant professor in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University.  He received his B.A. from Rhode Island College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Temple University.  Dr. Lawton's research interests include crime and place as well as police discretion and accountability.  His current research projects have included evaluations of targeted policing efforts in Dallas and Houston, as well as an examination of citizens' perceptions of police efforts and fear of crime in Houston, TX. (Curriculum Vitae)

Linda Merola, Ph.D., JD

Dr. Linda M. Merola is an Assistant Professor of Administration of Justice at George Mason University.  Professor Merola’s academic interests relate to civil liberties, constitutional law, the judiciary, public opinion and legal psychology.  She has published articles concerning terrorism, civil liberties, the judiciary, and various topics related to the public’s interaction with and knowledge of the criminal justice system.  Professor Merola received a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University, where she was awarded the Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award for the most accomplished dissertation in the social science disciplines.  In addition, Professor Merola holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she served on The George Washington Law Review and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar Association.  Professor Merola has also received advanced training in research methodology, statistics and survey/experimental methods through the National Science Foundation and Duke University, as well at the University of Michigan as a recipient of the Miller Scholarship.  (Curriculum Vitae)

Elizabeth Groff, Ph.D. (Temple University)

Dr Elizabeth Groff is an assistant professor in the Temple University Department of Criminal Justice. Dr. Groff received her B.S. and M.A. degrees in geography from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Ph.D. in geography from the University of Maryland at College Park. She also has an M.A. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Groff’s primary research interests are in crime and place; modeling geographical influences on human activity; agent-based modeling as a methodology; crime prevention; and policing. Her current research projects include a micro level longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington with Dr. David Weisburd and Dr. Sue-Ming Yang. She is co-director of the CEBCP Research Program on Crime and Place.

Christopher Koper, Ph.D. (Police Executive Research Forum)

Dr. Christopher Koper is the deputy director of research for the Police Executive Research Forum, a policing membership and research organization based in Washington, D.C.  He holds a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland and has over 20 years of experiencing conducting criminological research at the University of Pennsylvania, the Urban Institute, the RAND Corporation, the Police Foundation, and other organizations, where he has written extensively on issues related to policing, firearms, research methods, white-collar crime, and other topics.  Dr. Koper has served as a lead or senior-level investigator for numerous projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, including studies of illegal gun markets, gun control measures (including the 1994 federal assault weapons ban), police crime control strategies, organizational issues in policing, federal crime prevention efforts, and trends in juvenile violence.  He received a Domestic Public Policy Fellowship from the Smith Richardson Foundation in 2001 and is a former Scholar-in-Residence of the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn of the University of Pennsylvania. (Curriculum Vitae)

Sue-Ming Yang, Ph.D. (Georgia State University)

Dr. Sue-Ming Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland in 2007.  Her articles have appeared in Criminology, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.  Her current research interests include place-based criminology, criminological theory testing, research methods, analysis of longitudinal terrorism patterns against the United States, and understanding the relationship between disorder and crime over time.

Josh Hinkle, Ph.D (Georgia State University)

Dr. Joshua Hinkle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. He received his doctoral degree in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland in the summer of 2009 after completing his Master's degree in the department in May 2005. His research interests include policing and criminological theory. Since August of 2007 he has worked under Dr. David Weisburd as the project director on an NIJ funded randomized experimental evaluation of broken windows policing in three cities in California. (Curriculum Vitae)

 

Graduate Research Assistants

Cody Telep, M.A.

Cody Telep is a doctoral student and Presidential Scholar in the Justice, Law, and Crime Policy program in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University.  He received an MA from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland in 2008.  His research interests include innovations in policing, police education, and evidence-based policy.  His recent work includes a Campbell Collaboration systematic review on the effectiveness of problem-oriented policing. He is also the coordinator for the CEBCP's Research Program on Evidence-Based Policing. (Curriculum Vitae)

Julie Willis, ABD

Julie Willis is a doctoral student in the Justice, Law, and Crime Policy program in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason University.  Julie received her MA in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Her research interests include crime and small scale spaces, crime and place, and gang territory.  Julie’s recent work involves examining cognitions of dangerous spaces and gang territory in police officers and community residents. She is also the coordinator for the CEBCP's Crime and Place Working Group. (Curriculum Vitae)
 

Dave McClure, M.A.

Dave McClure is a PhD. student in the Justice, Law and Crime Policy Program at George Mason University. He received an MA from the same program in 2008. Dave’s emphasis is the generation of high quality research, and the translation of such research into practical and effective criminal policies. In particular, Dave has developed a focus in the areas of the courts, criminal litigation, the forensic sciences, and wrongful convictions. Dave is currently serving as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, as well as a Graduate Fellow in the Center for Justice, Law, and Society. (Curriculum Vitae)

Breanne Cave, M.A.

Breanne Cave is a doctoral student and Presidential Scholar in the Justice, Law, and Crime Policy program in the Administration of Justice Department at George Mason. She received a Master of Justice Administration with a specialization in public safety from Norwich University in June 2009. Her research interests include crime and place, evidence-based policy, policing, and place organization. (Curriculum Vitae)

 

 

Executive Assistants            

Ms. Tracy Shevlin             Ms. Naida Kuruvilla   

                                  

Undergraduate Intern

Ms. Monika Singh