Department of Criminal Justice Studies

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Faculty Profiles

 

Elizabeth Brown

Lizbet Simmons

Alex Gerould

Jeff Snipes

Dan Macallair

Christina Stahlkopf

Michael Musheno

Ken Walsh

 

Elizabeth Brown
eabrown@sfsu.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Geography, University of Washington, 2006
  • Graduate Certificate in Law, Society and Justice
  • MA, Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 2002
  • BA, Women's Studies, University of California, Davis, 1998

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Juvenile justice
  • Cultural theory
  • Law and society
  • Race and crime
  • Legal geographies

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Brown, Elizabeth. "It's urban living, not ethnicity itself":  Race, crime and the urban geography of high risk youth. Geography Compass/ 1/2: 222-245. 2007.
  • With Steve Herbert. "On the Conception of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City." Antipode. September 2006.
  • With Matthew Sparke, Dominic Corva, Heather Day, Caroline Faria, Tony Sparks, and Kirsten Varg “The World Social Forum and the Lessons for Economic Geography.” Economic Geography. October 2005.

Alexander L. Gerould
gerould@sfsu.edu


EDUCATION
  • M.A., History, San Francisco State University, 2002
  • J.D., University of San Francisco Law School, 1992
  • B.A., Broadcast Communication Arts San Francisco State University, , 1989
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Criminological Theory
  • Criminal Law
  • Crime and Punishment in Historical Perspective
  • Crime and Gender
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • Gerould, Alexander. “Gender & Crime.” George Vold, Jeffrey B. Snipes and Thomas Bernard (Eds.), Theoretical Criminology,
    6 th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2006.
  • Gerould, Alexander. “T o Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America,” by Robert C. Wadman and William Thomas Allison. The History Teacher. 38:2 (2005): 281-283.
  • Gerould, Alexander. “Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History,” by Robert S. McElvaine. Journal of the History of Sexuality. 11:4 (2002): 689-692.
OTHER ACTIVITES
  • Volunteer, Project Rebound, 2005.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Sage Publications, 2005.
  • Criminal lawyer, California and Federal Courts, 1995-2003.
  • Appellate Defense, Federal and State Constitutional issues of the right to fair trial and adequacy of trial counsel and
    ethical prosecution, 1995-2003.
  • Pre-trial preparer, white collar criminal defense cases, including issues of tax evasion and mail fraud.

Dan Macallair
dmacallair@cjcj.org


EDUCATION

  • M.P.A., Criminal Justice Administration, San Jose State University, 1987
  • B.A., History, State University of New York, College at Oswego, 1981
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Adult Community Corrections
  • Sentencing and Corrections Policy
  • Drug Policy Reform
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • Randall G. Shelden and Daniel Macallair (eds). Juvenile Justice in America: Problems and Prospects. Criminal Justice Press. (forthcoming)
  • Macallair, Daniel and Males, Michael. “The Failure of Good Intentions: An Analysis of Juvenile Justice Reform in San Francisco During the 1990’s.” Policy Studies Journal. 31.1 (2003).
  • Macallair, Daniel. “The San Francisco Industrial School and the Origins of Juvenile Justice in California: A Glance at the Great Reformation.” UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy. 7:1, (2003): 1-60.
  • Males, Mike, Daniel Macallair. "Striking Out: The Failure of California's Three Strikes and You're Out Law." Stanford Law and Policy Review, Vol 11:1 65-74 (1999)
  • Macallair, Dan and Schiraldi, Vincent (Eds.). Reforming Juvenile Justice: Reasons and Strategies for the 21st Century.
    Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1998.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Executive Director and Co-Founder, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco
  • Assistant Editor and Founder, Justice Policy Journal
  • Member and Co-Founder, Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
  • Member, San Francisco Mayor’s Children’s Policy Council
  • Member, Western Society of Criminology
  • Member, National Association of Sentencing Advocates
  • Board Member and Past President, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
  • Member, International Community Corrections Association
  • Member, American Correctional Association
AWARDS
  • Social Justice Award, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, 2003
  • Leadership Award, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, 2001
  • Innovations in Government Award, Semifinalist, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 1998
  • Leadership Award, State of Hawaii, Office of Youth Services 1994

Michael Musheno
mmusheno@sfsu.edu
http://bss.sfsu.edu/mmusheno

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Political Science, American University, 1974
  • M.A., Political Science, American University, 1971
  • B.A., Political Science, Lycoming College, 1969
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Criminal Justice and Public Policy
  • Law and Society
  • Conflict and Its Management
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/REPORTS
  • Michael Musheno and Susan Ross, Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009 (Paperback), 2008 (Hardcover).
  • Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno. “Stories for Research.” D. Yanow and P. Schwartz-Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. Nrmonk, New York: M.E. Sharp, 2006.
  • Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno. Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Frontlines of Public Service. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
  • Lisa Bower, David Goldberg and Michael Musheno (eds.). Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  • Trish Oberweis and Michael Musheno. Knowing Rights: State Workers Stories of Power, Identity and Morality. Ashgate/Dartmouth Publishers Limited, 2001.
  • Calvin Morrill, Christine Yalda, Madelaine Adelman, Michael Musheno and Cindy Bejarano. “Telling Tales in Schools: Youth Culture and Conflict Narrative.” Law and Society Review, 34.4 (2000): 521-566.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Member, Law and Society Association, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Member, Academic Council, College of Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco State University
  • Member, University Research Council, San Francisco State University
AWARDS
  • 2006 Outstanding Alumni Award, Lycoming College
  • Co-Winner, The American Political Science Association’s 2005 Herbert A. Simon Award
  • Co-Winner, 2005 Best Book of Public Administration Scholarship, American Society of Public Administration

Lizbet Simmons
lizbet@sfsu.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • M.A., Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
  • B.A., English, Bennington College, 1993
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Race and Inequality
  • School to Prison Pipeline Studies
  • Mass Incarceration
  • Urban Education
  • Qualitative Research Methods
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/REPORTS
  • 2009 "End of the line: Tracing Racial Inequality From School to Prison" Race/Ethnicity: Multi-disciplinary Global Contexts (Solicited).
  • 2009 "The Docile Body in School Space" in Surveillance in Schools, edited by Rodolfo Torres and Torin Monahan, Rutgers University Press.
  • 2009 "Deborah Luster on the Photographic Performance: Interview with Lizbet Simmons" in Prison Culture, City Lights Books.
  • 2007 “Research Off limits and Underground: Street Corner Methods for Finding Invisible Students” The Urban Review, 39(3), 319-347.
  • 2007 “Security Culture on Campus: Considerations for Urban Universities” Metropolitan Universities Journal, 18(2), 57-65.
  • 2006 “On Looking for Hope” Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Museum Gallery Publication (Oakland, CA); [Electronic Version] http://www.burning-house.com/lookingforhope.
  • 2006 Review of School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbook, Conoley and Goldstein (eds). (New York: The Guilford Press) in Teacher's College Record.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Member, American Society of Criminology
  • Member, Law and Society Association
  • Member, American Educational Research Association
  • Member, American Sociological Association
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Prison Culture Symposium, SFSU, Spring 2008
  • Manuscript Reviewer, Surveillance and Society
AWARDS
  • 2008  President's Award, San Francisco State University
  • 2007  Affirmative Action Award, San Francisco State University
  • 2006  California Council for the Humanities Scholar
  • 2003  UC Berkeley Summer Institute Fellow
  • 1998  San Quentin Prison Teaching Award

 

Jeff Snipes
jsnipes@sfsu.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, 2002
  • J.D., Stanford University, 2001
  • M.A., Criminal Justice, Penn State University, 1991
  • B.A., Criminal Justice, Penn State University, 1991
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Criminal law
  • Civil Rights Law
  • Theoretical Criminology
  • Policing
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • Snipes, Jeff. Guide to Criminal Procedure for California. Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005.
  • Vold,George ; Bervard, Thomas ; and Snipes, Jeffery. Theoretical Criminology. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2002
  • Mastrofski, S., J. Snipes, R. Parks, and C. Maxwell. “The Helping Hand of the Law: Police Control of Citizens On Request.” Criminology. 38.2, (2002): 307-342.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Member, American Society of Criminology
  • Volunteer, Coalition on Homelessness
  • Police Reform Work (e.g., Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Active Member, California Bar Association

Christina Stahlkopf
cstahlko@sfsu.edu
http://online.sfsu.edu/~cstahlko/

EDUCATION

  • PhD Oxford University 2006
  • MA Oxford University 2001
  • BA Bowdoin College 1999

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Youth Justice
  • Restorative Justice
  • Youth Incarceration

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Stahlkopf C, Males M and Macallair D. (2007) 'Testing Incapacitation
    Theory: Youth Crime and Incarceration in California' Crime and Delinquency,
    Forthcoming.
  • Males M, Stahlkopf C, and Macallair D. (2007) 'Crime Rates and Youth
    Incarceration in Texas and California Compared: Public Safety or
    Public Waste?' Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, April 2007.
  • Stahlkopf, Christina. (2006) "Youth Offending and Restorative Justice:
    Implementing Reform in Youth Justice" A book review of Adam Crawford and Tim
    Newburn's 2003 book for the International Criminal Justice Review, 16(2),
    Georgia: Sage Publishing.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • Co-Advisor to the Criminal Justice Student Association
  • Member, American Society of Criminology
  • Member, Law and Society
  • Member, American Sociological Association
  • Board of Directors, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

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Ken Walsh
kwalsh@sfsu.edu

EDUCATION

  • M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco State University, 1991
  • B.A, Social Sciences, San Francisco State University, 1989
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Law and Society
  • Policing
  • Criminal and Civil Investigation
  • Effects of Class and Race in American Criminal Justice
  • Electronic Countermeasures
OTHER ACTIVITIES
  • Community Outreach, Criminal Justice-related agencies developing student internships and volunteer positions
    for SF State students.
  • California Licensed Private Investigator.
  • Owner/Operator, Walsh Investigative Services, specializing in Criminal Defense, Organized Crime,
    Electronics Countermeasures, Fraud.
  • California Association of Licensed Investigator
  • Member, Council of International Investigators
  • Member, Northern California Fraud Investigators Association
  • Member, World Association of Detectives.
  • Lecturer, San Francisco Arts and Humanities Seminar Series and International Elderhostel seminars.
AWARDS
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Outstanding Contributions to Teaching San Francisco State University, 1997
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