Where Are We Now? The Current State of Justice-Related Education
Where Are We Now? The Current State of Justice-Related Education
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John J. Sloan Bonnie S. Fisher Timothy A. Engle a J. Frank Barfield Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USAb School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USAJohn J. Sloan III is Professor Emeritus of criminal justice and Senior Scientist with the Institute for Human Rights at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator with Bonnie S. Fisher on the ACJS Directory Project (2021– present). His research interests include crime and related issues on college campuses, campus policing, and undergraduate education. His most recent book is Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence (University of Washington Press, 2024). He earned a PhD in sociology from Purdue University.Bonnie S. Fisher is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator with John J. Sloan III on the ACJS Directory Project (2021– present). Her research interests span victimological topics ranging from the measurement of interpersonal violence against college students to the identification of theory-based predictors of interpersonal victimization to the evaluation of crime prevention strategies, and most recently, to the design and implementation of longitudinal study of interpersonal violence by and against emerging adults.Timothy A. Engle is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). His research interests include cybercrime and victimization, the intersection of immigration and cybercrime, and cryptocurrency-related offending. He is also affiliated with UC CYBORG and the Kautiz-Ubile Cryptoeconomics lab at UC. He earned a master’s degree in criminal justice in 2021 from the SCJ at UC and a master’s degree in information technology in 2023 from UC.