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Phone: 703.993.4901

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Email: cebcp@gmu.edu 

Twitter: @cebcp

David Weisburd, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Dr. David Weisburd holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society 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. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, and Chair of their Research Advisory Committee. He is the 2010 recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.  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.    Professor Weisburd is a member of the National Research Council Committee on Crime Law and Justice, the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, the Science Advisory Board (OJP) and of the National Institute of Justice/Harvard University Executive Session in Policing. Professor Weisburd is author or editor of more than twenty books and more than one hundred scientific articles. He is editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology and serves on a number of journal editorial boards including Evaluation Review, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. (Curriculum Vitae) 

Cynthia Lum, Ph.D.

Director

 Dr. Cynthia Lum is the Director and Associate Professor of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She researches primarily in the area of policing. Her works in this area have included evaluations of policing interventions for crime prevention effectiveness, examining place-based determinates of street-level police decision-making, understanding the relationship between technology and policing, and assessing airport security efforts by the TSA. With Dr. Christopher Koper and Cody Telep (both of George Mason University) she has developed the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a translation tool designed for police practitioners to better institutionalize and utilize research on "what works" in policing into their strategic and tactical portfolio. (Curriculum Vitae)

Charlotte Gill, Ph.D.
Deputy Director

Dr. Charlotte Gill is Deputy Director of the CEBCP and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University.  She completed her Ph.D. at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania in 2010.  She also holds an M.Phil in Criminology and an M.A. in Law from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.  Dr. Gill’s research interests include evidence-based crime prevention, juvenile justice, place-based criminology, program evaluation, quantitative methods, and research synthesis.  She has been involved in conducting several randomized trials, including a study of low-intensity probation supervision in Philadelphia and experiments in restorative justice with the Metropolitan and Thames Valley police services in the United Kingdom.  Dr. Gill also serves as the managing editor of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group.  (Curriculum Vitae)

Jim Bueermann

Fellow

Jim Bueermann is former Chief of Police in the Redlands, CA Police Department. He worked for the Redlands Police Department from 1978 until his retirement in June 2011, serving in every unit within the department. He was appointed Police Chief and Director of Housing, Recreation and Senior Services in May 1998. He holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University at San Bernardino and a master’s degree from the University of Redlands. In early 2007, he was named Honorary Fellow to the Academy of Experimental Criminology. (Curriculum Vitae)

Christopher Koper, Ph.D.

Fellow

Dr. Christopher Koper is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He was formerly the Director of Research for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), 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 PERF, the University of Pennsylvania, the Urban Institute, the RAND Corporation, the Police Foundation, and other organizations, where he has written and published extensively on issues related to firearms, policing, federal crime prevention efforts, research methods, juvenile delinquency, 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 Congressionally-mandated assessments of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban and the federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.  He is also the co-creator of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool used by organizations including the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Policing Improvement Agency of the United Kingdom for visualizing research results on police effectiveness and translating those results for practitioners and policymakers.  Dr. Koper is a former scholar-in-residence of the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn (a center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System). (Curriculum Vitae)

Brian Lawton, Ph.D.

Fellow

Dr. Brian Lawton is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society 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)

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Stephen Mastrofski, Ph.D.

Fellow

Stephen Mastrofski is University Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society 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.  He has published extensively on the application of systematic observation methods to street-level police work.  For several years Professor Mastrofski has led a team of researchers supporting and evaluating the transformation of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.  He is also engaged in research projects on measuring the quality of street-level policing, assessing the role of first-line police supervisors, and measuring police organization development and change.  He has served on the editorial boards of seven criminology and criminal justice journals, currently serving on the boards of two international policing journals.  He has been a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Community Oriented Policing and 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 the 2004 book, 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 using different organizational theories to explain Compstat’s implementation as a police reform.  In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. (Curriculum Vitae)

Linda Merola, Ph.D., JD

Fellow
Dr. Linda M. Merola is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society 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.

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Laurie O. Robinson

Fellow

Laurie Robinson is former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, the Department's research, statistics and state and local criminal justice assistance arm.  Her three years of service in the Obama Administration, coupled with seven years in the same post in the 1990s, make her the longest serving head of the agency in its 45-year history.  Robinson's recent tenure at the Justice Department was marked by an emphasis on science.  She established a Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice Programs, launched a "what works clearinghouse" (CrimeSolutions.gov), and secured from Congress a 2% set-aside for research across OJP's appropriation.  Prior to returning to OJP in 2009, Robinson headed the University of Pennsylvania's Master of Science Program in its Department of Criminology and served as a Distinguished Senior Scholar in its Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.  During her first tenure at the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General, from 1993 to 2000, she oversaw the largest increase in federal spending on research in the nation's history and spearheaded initiatives in such areas as violence against women, law enforcement technology, and corrections.  Prior to joining the federal government, she served for 14 years as director of the American Bar Association's Section of Criminal Justice, where she founded its Center on Juvenile Justice.  She has served on numerous national boards, including those of the Vera Institute of Justice (which she chaired from 2006 to 2009), the Constitution Project, the Police Foundation, and the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA).  In August, 2012 she joins George Mason University as a Clarence J. Robinson Professor, with an appointment in GMU's Department of Criminology, Law and Society. (Curriculum Vitae)

David Wilson, Ph.D.

Fellow

David B. Wilson, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University.  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)

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Cody Telep, ABD

Research Associate

Cody Telep is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. From 2008-2011 he was a Presidential Scholar at George Mason.  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, the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, and a study of the impact of police officer education on abuse of authority attitudes. He is also the coordinator for the CEBCP's Research Program on Evidence-Based Policing. (Curriculum Vitae)

Elizabeth Groff, Ph.D. (Temple University)

Dr. Elizabeth Groff is an associate 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 test of three major policing strategies in the Philadelphia Police Department (with Jerry Ratcliffe); an evaluation of CCTV cameras in Philadelphia (with Jerry Ratcliffe); and predicting municipality-level crime trends (with Ralph Taylor and David Elesh).  She is a member of the Crime and Place Working Group within the CEBCP Research Program on Crime and Place. (Curriculum Vitae)

Julie Hibdon, Ph.D (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

Dr. Julie Hibdon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She formerly was a Research Associate in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.  She received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from George Mason University in 2011.  She also holds an M.A. in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Dr. Hibdon’s research interests include crime and place, cognitions of crime places and dangerous places, fear of crime, and policing.  Dr. Hibdon has worked and collaborated on a number of research projects including the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Project; an experimental evaluation of  License Plate Recognition (LPR) Technologies for Law Enforcement; an evaluation of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) strategy to security at airports; and most recently an evaluation of the impact of technologies on police organizations and practices. (Curriculum Vitae)

Josh Hinkle, Ph.D. (Georgia State University)

Dr. Joshua Hinkle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology 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)

Travis Taniguchi, Ph.D. (Police Foundation)

Travis Taniguchi is a Senior Research Associate at the Police Foundation. He received his B.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Chaminade University of Honolulu and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Temple University. His research interests include program and policy evaluation, crime and place, street gang dynamics, and the spatial distribution of drug markets. He is dedicated to expanding and evaluating the partnerships between researchers and practitioners. His publications can be found in Justice Quarterly and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (Curriculum Vitae)

Sue-Ming Yang, Ph.D. (National Chung Cheng University)

Dr. Sue-Ming Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.  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. (Curriculum Vitae)

Breanne Cave, ABD

Breanne Cave is a doctoral student and Presidential Scholar in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. 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 homeland security policy. She is also the coordinator for the CEBCP's Crime and Place Working Group. (Curriculum Vitae)

KiDeuk Kim, M.A.

KiDeuk Kim is reading for a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. His research interests include rational choice theories, quantitative research methods, and policy evaluation in criminal justice. He is a recipient of the American Statistical Association's Law and Justice Statistics Award and currently working on the impact evaluation of early disposition programs in federal courts. (Curriculum Vitae)

Zoe Vitter

Zoe Vitter is currently a masters student in the Criminology, Law and Society Department at George Mason University. She is completing her thesis examining the relationship between foreclosure and crime in a suburban setting.  Her research interests include crime and place, evidence-based policy, and problem oriented policing.  Zoe is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.

Julie Grieco, M.A.

Julie Grieco is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She received an MA in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University in 2009. Her research interests include policing, research methods, and the implementation of evidence-based practices in criminal justice organizations. Julie is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. (Curriculum Vitae)

Jaspreet Chahal, M.S.

Jaspreet Chahal is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She received a MS in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University in 2008. Her research interests include place-based criminology, terrorism, homeland security, and evidence-based policy. Jaspreet is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. (Curriculum Vitae)

Heather Vovak, M.A.

Heather Vovak is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University.  She received an MA in Political Science from the University of Akron in 2011.  Her research interests include counter-terrorism, human trafficking, crime and public opinion, and research methods.  Heather is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. (Curriculum Vitae)

Sarah Calhoun, M.A.

Sarah Calhoun is a doctoral student and Presidential Scholar in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She received an MA in Economics from the University of Missouri- St. Louis in 2012. Her research interests include quantitative methods, evidence-based policy, and policing.

(Curriculum Vitae)

Ms. Naida Kuruvilla   

Ms. Jordan Nichols (Fall 2012)

Jordan Nichols is currently an undergraduate student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society. Her research interests include homeland security, counter-terrorism and evidence-based policy. Jordan is currently working on policing and security projects within the Center.

Ms. Jacqueline Davis (Summer 2011, from University of Queensland, Australia)

Ms. Felicia Keith (Summer 2010, from UC-Irvine)
Ms. Sarah Parham (Summer 2010, Undergraduate Apprenticeship Award Winner) 
Ms. Laura Coffrin (Spring 2010)
Ms. Monika Singh (Fall 2009)
Ms. Brittany Davenport (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)