Faculty and Staff
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013
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Dr. James R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Education and Human Services
Shippen Hall Room 354
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Melissa L. Ricketts, Ph.D.
Chair, Criminal Justice Department
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Phone: (717) 477-1550
Email: mlricketts@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 319
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Areas of Interest: Victimology, Criminological theory testing, and advanced quantitative methods. Research Interests: Fear of crime, school violence, cybercrime, and prescription drug abuse. 2005 Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Matthew D. Fetzer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Phone: (717) 477- 1630
Email: mdfetzer@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 309
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Interests: Research Methods, statistics & quantitative methods, juvenile delinquency, homicide, hate crime, domestic violence
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Carrie Maloney Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Criminal Justice Department
Phone: (717) 477-1770
Email: clmondello@ship.edu
Shippen Hall 317
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Areas of Interest: Juvenile delinquency and justice, victimology, white collar crime, theories of crime and deviance, community and institutional corrections, quantitative research methods.
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Billy W. Henson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Phone: (717) 477-1608
Email: bwhenson@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 317
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Interests: Victimology, Criminology, Policing, and Criminal Justice in Popular Culture
Research Interests: Violent, Sexual, and Repeat Victimization, Fear of Crime, Crime Prevention, and Cybercrime Victimization. Formerly worked as a crime analyst for the Cincinnati Police Department.
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Stephanie A. Jirard, J.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Phone: (717) 477-1142
Email: sajira@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 307
Office Hours: Fall 2012 Author: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and the Constitution, Prentice Hall 2009
A former U.S. Navy JAG Corps Officer, Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Missouri State Public Defender in the Capital Litigation Unit. Research interests include constitutional law and capital punishment.
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Cynthia Koller Ph.D
Assistant Professor Criminal Justice Department
Criminal Justice Club Advisor
Phone: (717) 477-1599
Email: cakoller@ship.edu
Shippen Hall 315
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Areas of Interest: Juvenile justice, White collar crime, Judicial theory, sentencing disparities and diffusion theory
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E. Britt Patterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Phone: (717) 477-1763
Email: ebpatt@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 313
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Editors: Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson, and Kristina K. Childs; Racial Divide, Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Criminal Justice System. Criminal Justice Press 2008. Co-Editor of Race and Criminal Justice and Justice with Prejudice.
Areas of Interest: Juvenile justice, research and quantitative methods; race, gender and crime; criminology and delinquency theories. Research Interests: Crime causation, racial impact on crime, criminal justice system's response to crime.
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Laura Patterson, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Phone: (717) 477-1355
Email: lapatt@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 303
Office Hours: Fall 2012
Editors: co-authored manuscript “Diffusion of Fraud Through Subprime Lending: The Perfect Storm” published in the special edition of the journal Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance on economic crisis and crime.
Areas of interest: Juvenile delinquency and justice; victimology; white collar crime; theories of crime and deviance; community and institutional corrections; quantitative research methods.
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