Criminal Justice Faculty and Staff Directory

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Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Washington State University

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Dr. Steve Ellwanger is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University (2005), and holds a Bachelor’s (1993) and Master’s (1999) degree in Criminal Justice and Public Administration and Policy, respectively, from the University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to coming to California State University, Bakersfield in 2012 he was an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Ellwanger’s research interests include the structural and social sources of crime and delinquency, as well as police institutions and processes. He has most recently published articles relating to predictive policing, police militarization, police interrogations, police socialization, and the independent and joint effects of self-control and strain in delinquency. Dr. Ellwanger has also served as a Biostatistical consultant to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2007-2012) and completed program evaluations for the United States Department of Justice on the efficacy of Project Safe Neighborhoods (2006) in reducing gun violence in East Tennessee, as well as state and local evaluations on Traffic Safety Education and faith based programs in reducing young driver accidents and adolescent crime and delinquency, respectively. Dr. Ellwanger has a broad range of teaching interests including Drugs & Crime, Statistics and Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Policing, and public policy.

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Ph.D., Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati

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Dr. Flores is an Associate Professor in Criminal Justice at the California State University, Bakersfield. He earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno, an M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. In 2013 he earned his Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Flores teaches undergraduate level courses in the areas of research methods and statistics, corrections processes and systems, gangs, and criminological theories. Dr. Flores also provides technical assistance with offender risk and need assessment, case planning, and effective rehabilitative programming to both institutional and community based correctional agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. Recent publication topics include the effectiveness of intensive supervision programs, offender risk/needs assessment, and effective rehabilitative strategies for both juvenile and adult offender populations.

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Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University Texas

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Dr. Robert Fong 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). Before joining CSUB in 1991, Dr. Fong was a tenure-track faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and later East Carolina University. Since his arrival at CSUB, Dr. Fong has taught courses in Criminal Law, Courts, Corrections, Theories, Ethics, Gangs, Drugs & Crime, Research Methods, and the Senior Seminar class. He was Chair of the Criminal Justice Department from 1994 through 2009. Dr. Fong’s research interests include prison gangs, ethnic street gangs, and school violence, which have 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.

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Ph.D., Criminology, The Claremont Graduate School, Southern California

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Doris Hall, a 5th generation Californian, received her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Criminology from The Claremont Graduate School in Southern California. Dr. Hall also serves as a lecturer at California State University, Bakersfield in the Criminal Justice Department. Dr. Hall conducted the first national study on the victims of stalking. The result of this groundbreaking victimology research has been the subject of numerous articles and has changed the way police forces deal with the crime of stalking. Currently, Dr. Hall is researching “Extreme Domestic Violence.” This study is to identify the lethality risk factors for persons involved in domestic violence relationships in Kern County. Dr. Hall examined cases where victims have survived attempted murder from an intimate partner. Many of these victims were hospitalized with nearly moral wounds, namely gunshot and/or stab wounds or strangulation. The goal of this academic study is to identify risk factors and create a set of practical guidelines for intervention. The overall intent is to save lives. Giving back to the community is a personal priority for Dr. Hall. She has been involved on campus and locally as: Lead Researcher and Member of the Kern County Domestic Violence Death Review Team; Board Member of Kern County Victim/Witness Auxiliary; CSUB Women & Gender Studies Committee; Faculty advisor to the Criminal Justice Club; and past Faculty advisor to the CSUB Women's Network. Most recently, Dr. Hall was nominated as a “Real Hero of Kern County” in the educator category.

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Ph.D., Crime, Law, and Justice, Pennsylvania State University.

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Dr. Zachary Hays joined the Department of Criminal Justice as an Assistant Professor. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Crime, Law, & Justice from Pennsylvania State University and was previously a member of the Criminal Justice & Criminology faculty at Washington State University before joining CSUB. His teaching and Research interests focus primarily on Policing and law enforcement, but he is also interested in research methods, statistics, criminological theory, ethics, and many other subjects. His most recent publications have examined not only police use of excessive force, but also the role of gentrification on crime rates and the effectiveness of housing programs for recently released inmates.

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Ph.D., Sociology (with a specialization in Criminology), University of Texas at Austin

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Dr. Heejong Jacob Joo is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Bakersfield. Prior to joining the faculty at CSUB in the fall of 2011, he was a professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University (2005-2011), the Director of the Justice Administration Program at Southwest Minnesota State University (2002-2005) and the Chair of the Department of Corrections at Kyunggi University in South Korea. (1997-2001). His academic specialties include: Crime Rates and Trends, Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation in Criminal Justice, Institutional and Community Corrections, Comparative Criminal Justice and Statistics and Research Methods. His current research interests involve contextual analysis of crime and crime control, prediction of offender recidivism, institutional and community corrections and the analysis of hot spots with crime mapping. His research has appeared in major journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice such as Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Police Quarterly, and Crime, Law and Social Change. Dr. Joo is currently serving as the President of Korean Society of Criminology in America (KSCA). He is an active member of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice, and International Congress on Criminology.

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Ph.D., Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

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Dr. McCullough earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Criminal Justice and Criminology from Sam Houston State University, Texas. She enjoys teaching Research Methods, Criminal Law, and Corrections. Dr. McCullough's primary research interests include procedural justice and legitimacy, criminal justice policy analysis, sentencing, and corrections. Her recent research examines the correlates of successful reentry among formerly imprisoned individuals, with emphasis on the perceived legitimacy of correctional authorities. Her work is published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, and the Journal of Criminal Justice.

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M.S., Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati

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Lindsay Nelson-Burkert is a full-time Lecturer at California State University of Bakersfield in the Criminal Justice Department. She is an Idaho native and moved to California in 2006. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at CSUB in Criminal Justice, and then went on to earn her Master of Science from the University of Cincinnati’s School of Criminal Justice with a double concentration in analysis of criminal behavior and corrections and offender rehabilitation. Lindsay is currently teaching research methods and statistics, criminological theories, and introductory criminal justice courses with other teaching interests being correctional treatments and rehabilitation. Her most recent research includes immigration concentration effects on violent crime rates throughout the nation and diversity and recruitment efforts in policing.