• Robert Fong, Ph.D.
• Chair & Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C116
• Office Phone: 661-654-2433
• E-mail: rfong@csub.edu

Robert Fong is Professor & Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at CSUB. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in Texas after completing an M.P.A from the University of South Dakota. In addition to having prior experience as a correctional officer and deputy sheriff, Dr. Fong served as a special monitor, from 1984 through 1988, for the Texas Department of Corrections overseeing departmental compliance with the consent decree resulted from the historic prisoner class action suit of Ruiz v. Estelle, 679 F.2d 1115 (5th Cir. 1982). Since joining CSUB in 1991, Dr. Fong has taught courses in Criminal Law, Corrections, Theories, Ethics, Gangs, Research Methods, and the Senior Seminar class. His research interests include prison gangs, ethnic street gangs, and school violence, which has yielded numerous publications and book reviews in refereed journals. Dr. Fong has also fostered strong and on-going relationships with the local community by serving on a number of prominent law enforcement boards and as a consultant to local school districts on police-community partnership grants and after-school programs

• Reem Abu-Lughod, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C123
• Office Phone: 661-665-6792
• E-mail: rabu_lughod@csub.edu

Dr. Reem Ali Abu-Lughod received her Ph.D. in Urban and Public Administration with an emphasis in Criminology and Criminal Jutsice, from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in May 2006. Her dissertation examined the effects of social, economic, and physical variables on violent crimes in U.S. cities. She had previously earned a B.S. degree in biology in 1999 and a Master’s in Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2001. Dr. Abu-Lughod taught in the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at UTA (The Juvenile Justice System and Introduction to Criminal Justice) while interning at the Arlington Police Department in the economic crime unit, juvenile investigations and crime scene. She was also the vice president for the Middle Eastern Student Association, an organization which promotes cultural awareness. Dr. Abu-Lughod’s long-term research interests are focused on spatial crime, neighborhood policing in the U.S., juvenile delinquency, global terrorism, and criminal behavior among racial and ethnic groups. Currently, Dr. Abu-Lughod is teaching Gangs in America and Race, Ethnicity and Criminal Justice, and working on her first scholarly article with her dissertation Chair Dr. Joel Goldsteen.

• Christina Caifano, M.S.
• Lecturer
• Office Location: DDH-C119
• Office Phone: 661-654-6795
• E-mail: ccaifano@csub.edu

Professor Christina Caifano earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. While earning her master’s degree in Cincinnati, Professor Caifano was awarded a graduate assistantship and became a certified offender assessment consultant. Christina’s areas of scholarly interest include offender assessment (adult and juvenile), correctional program evaluation, race, ethnicity, and criminal justice related decision making, serial offender profiling, and the reaffirmation of rehabilitation. Professor Caifano became a member of the Criminal Justice Department at CSUB in the spring of 2004 and has served as the Criminal Justice Club advisor since the fall of 2006. Professor Caifano teaches undergraduate courses in the areas of corrections, juvenile justice, criminal justice ethics, race, ethnicity, and crime, introductory criminal justice, and profiling violence. Professor Caifano provides academic advising for freshman and sophomore students whose last name begins with the letters A through M. Moreover, Caifano serves as the department’s advising specialist wherein she is responsible for training new faculty to provide academic advising to students, for keeping the department informed of current advising policies, and for ensuring that faculty concerns/questions regarding academic advising are answered. Professor Caifano is a dedicated instructor and faculty member who truly enjoys being a part of the learning environment at CSUB.

• Anthony Flores, ABD
• Assistant Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C115
• Office Phone: 661-654-6794
• E-mail: aflores14@csub.edu

Professor Flores earned a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Nevada, Reno, an M.S. in Criminal Justice from The University of Cincinnati, and is currently a doctoral candidate from The University of Cincinnati. Prof. Flores recently served as the project director of a three-year grant funded by the National Institute of Justice entitled: “Case Classification for Juvenile Corrections: An Evaluation of the Youth Level of Service Inventory.” He has also provided many states with technical assistance regarding criminal risk assessment, case planning, and effective rehabilitative programming. Professor Flores has taught undergraduate level courses in the areas of statistics, research methods, correctional rehabilitation, probation and parole, prisons and jails, criminological theory, and juvenile justice. Professor Flores teaches Juvenile Justice Processes and Systems and Gangs. Current research interests include risk/needs assessment and effective correctional programming for both juvenile and adult offender populations.

• Doris Hall, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C117
• Office Phone: 661-654-3121
• E-mail: dhall@csub.edu
• Webpage: www.csub.edu/~dhall/

Dr. Doris Hall earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice/Criminology from The Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. Her areas of research include stalking, domestic violence and violence against women. Dr. Hall serves on the steering committee of the Kern County Domestic Violence Advisory Council. She has taught classes on issues of domestic violence and stalking both locally and out of state. Dr. Hall teaches Victimology, Women and Criminal Justice and Introduction to Criminal Justice.

• Anthony Hoskin, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C121
• Office Phone: 661-654-6796
• E-mail: ahoskin@csub.edu

Dr. Tony Hoskin earned his undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Utah. He then attended the State University of New York in Albany where he earned his PhD in sociology, specializing in criminological theory and quantitative research methods. For three years he taught criminal justice and sociology courses at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania where he also served as the Director of the Crime and Justice Degree Completion Program. Currently, he is an assistant professor teaching courses on gangs, criminological theory, research methods and juvenile justice. He has published a number of sole-authored and co-authored articles on firearms and violence in prestigious criminology journals and has recently branched out into research on violence toward children.

• Charlene Taylor, ABD
• Assistant Professor
• Office Location: DDH-C113
• Office Phone: 661-654-6791
• E-mail: ctaylor9@csub.edu

Professor Charlene Taylor earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Washington State University, an M.S. in Criminal Justice from The University of Cincinnati, and is currently a doctoral candidate The University of Cincinnati. Her dissertation examines gender differences in risk factors for delinquency. As an Assistant Professor at Portland State University, she was awarded a gubernatorial appointment in Oregon to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Advisory Committee and served as the chair of the evaluation subcommittee. Her research interests include juvenile corrections, correctional rehabilitation, sex offenders, and gender issues in corrections. As a consultant, she has provided technical assistance to Corrections Department for states around the country regarding effective correctional interventions, risk assessment, cognitive behavioral interventions and motivational interviewing. Professor Taylor has taught undergraduate courses in the areas of corrections, criminological theory, and introductory criminal justice.

• Lisa McQuin
• Department Coordinator
• Office Location: DDH C114
• Office Phone: 661-654-2433
• Office Fax:     661-654-2627
• E-mail: lmcquin@csub.edu