American criminologist
Denise Claire Gottfredson (née Denise Claire Ruff ) is an American criminologist and professor in the department of criminal justice and criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park .
She is an expert on school violence [ 1] and juvenile delinquency .[ 2] [ 3] She is recognized for her research applying the techniques of program evaluation to certain crime prevention initiatives, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education ,[ 4] the Strengthening Families Program, and the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court.[ 5] She has also researched the effects of school resource officers on schools, finding that such officers spend an average of about half of their time engaged in law enforcement activities.[ 6] She served as vice president of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) from 2005 to 2006, and as editor-in-chief of its journal, Criminology , from 2005 to 2011. She received the ASC's August Vollmer Award in 2016. She is a fellow of the ASC and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology .[ 7]
Education and academic career
Gottfredson earned her B.A. in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1974 and her Ph.D. in social relations from Johns Hopkins University in 1980.[ 7] She became an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park's department of criminal justice and criminology in 1986, and was promoted to full professor there in 1995.[ 7]
References
Further reading
Tolan, Patrick (February 2017). "The Best Science Is the Most Practical Approach to Delinquency Prevention". Criminology & Public Policy . 16 (1): 35–39. doi :10.1111/1745-9133.12279 . ISSN 1538-6473 .
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