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204 CHURCHILL HALL
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
360 HUNTINGTON AVENUE
BOSTON, MA 02115
617.373.3327

FACULTY AND STAFF

Office of the Dean/Administrative Staff

Jack R. Greene

Title: Dean and Professor (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1977), View Bio
Specialties: Policing, Public Service Management, Policy Analysis, Evaluation
Contact: 617.373.3327, j.greene@neu.edu

Jack McDevitt

Title: Associate Dean (MPA, Northeastern University, 1977), View Bio
Specialties: Hate Crimes, Policing, Program Evaluation, Ethics in Criminal Justice, Race and Justice
Contact: 617.373.3482, j.mcdevitt@neu.edu

Chester Britt

Title: Associate Dean and Associate Professor(PhD, University of Arizona, 1990), View Bio
Specialties: Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Systems, Quantitative Research Methods
Contact: 617.373.3327, c.britt@neu.edu

Tina F. Di Blasi

Title: Budget Analyst, (MSA, Suffolk University, 2000)
View Bio
Contact: 617.373.3327, t.diblasi@neu.edu

Laurie Mastone

Title: Assistant to the Dean (B.S., Suffolk University, 1979)
Contact: 617.373.2813, l.mastone@neu.edu

Alison L. Moll

Title: Senior Academic Advisor (M.Ed., University of Vermont, 2002)View Bio
Contact: 617.373.3327, a.moll@neu.edu

Betty Ann Moriarty

Title: Academic Advisor
View Bio
Contact: 617.373.3327,

Marion Sullivan

Title: Administrative Assistant
Contact: 617.373.3327, ma.sullivan@neu.edu

Courtney Bitto

Title: Staff Assistant
View Bio
Contact: 617.373.3327, c.bitto@neu.edu


The CCJ faculty have a wide range of areas of expertise, ranging from serial murder, hate crime and terrorism to policing, law, corrections and security. In addition to teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, members of the faculty are involved in funded and non-funded research and publishing books and articles widely read by students, criminal justice professionals and policy-makers. Our faculty and research staff includes:

Research Faculty and Staff

Timothy F. App

Title: Executive in Residence (B.S., Northeastern University), View Bio
Specialties: Correctional Management and Practice, Community Corrections Programming
Contact: 617.373.8078, t.app@neu.edu

Donna M. Bishop

Title: Professor (Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1982), View Bio,
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Specialties: Juvenile Justice, Youth Policy, Criminological Theory
Contact: 617.373.3362, d.bishop@neu.edu

Harvey Burstein

Title: Schulman Professor (J.D., Creighton University, 1948), View Bio
Specialties: Security Administration, Management and Operations, Security Law, Loss Prevention
Contact: 617.373.3057, h.burstein@neu.edu

Carlos A. Cuevas

Title: Assistant Professor (PhD, Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, 2004),
View Bio
Specialties: Sexual Offenders, Victimization, Psychological Assessment
Contact: 617.373.7462, c.cuevas@neu.edu

Hillary B. Farber

Title: Assistant Professor, CCJ and Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Law. View Bio
Specialties: Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Trial Advocacy, and Juvenile Law


Amy Farrell

Title: Principal Research Scientist, Associate Director, Institute on Race and Justice (Ph.D., Northeastern University, 2001), View Bio
Specialties: Race and Justice, Sentencing, Gender and Justice, Policing
Contact: 617.373.7439, am.farrell@neu.edu

James Alan Fox

Title: Lipman Family Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976), View Bio
Specialties: Homicide, Youth Violence, Quantitative Methods
Contact: 617.373.3296, j.fox@neu.edu
Website:www.jfox.neu.edu

Natasha A. Frost

Title: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., City University of New York’s Graduate School and University Center, 2004), View Bio
Specialties: Punishment and Social Control, Prisoner Reentry, Death Penalty, Sentencing
Contact: 617.373.4076, n.frost@neu.edu

Ni He

Title: Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1997), View Bio
Specialties: Cross-National Testing of Crime Theories, Comparative Criminal Justice Practices, Application of Quantitative Methods, Policing: Program Implementation, Individual Values, Job Stress and Satisfaction
Contact: 617.373.2622, n.he@neu.edu

Robert J. Kane

Title: Associate Professor (Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Temple University, 2001)
View Bio
Specialties: Police Accountability and Authority, Police Violence and Misconduct, Social Ecology of Crime
Contact: 617.373.3285 r.kane@neu.edu

Peter K. Manning

Title: Brooks Professor (Ph.D., Duke University, 1966), View Bio
Specialties: Policing, Organizations, Regulation and Legal Decision-Making, Field Methods
Contact: 617.373.7748, pet.manning@neu.edu or manningpk@hotmail.com

Ineke Marshall

Title: Professor (Ph.D., Bowling Green University, 1978), View Bio
Specialties: Comparative Criminology, Survey Methodology, Race and Crime.
Contact: 617.373.2687, i.marshall@neu.edu

Nikos Passas

Title: Professor (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1989), View Bio
Specialties: Terrorism, International and Organized Crime, White-Collar Crime, Sociology of Deviance
Contact: 617.373.4309, n.passas@neu.edu

Glenn Pierce

Title: Principal Research Scientist (Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1989), View Bio
Specialties: Firearms, CJ Information Systems, Capital Punishment, Quantitative Methods
Contact: 617.373.3702, g.pierce@neu.edu

Nicole Rafter

Title: Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D., State University of New York), View Bio
Specialties: Gender and Justice, Biological Theories of Crime, Crime and Film
Contact: 617.373.3327, n.rafter@neu.edu

Jennifer B. Robinson

Title: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Temple University, 2003), View Bio
Specialties: Community Intervention, Ecology and Geography of Crime, Quantitative Methods
Contact: 617.373.7066, j.robinson@neu.edu

Wallace W. Sherwood

Title: Associate Professor (LLM, Harvard Law School, 1971), View Bio
Specialties: Criminal Law, Criminal Due Process, Criminal Procedure, Evidence
Contact: 617.373.3304, w.sherwood@neu.edu

Simon I. Singer

Title: Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1980), View Bio
Specialties: Juvenile Justice, Sociology of Law, Theories of Delinquency
Contact: 617.373.7446, s.singer@neu.edu

Marc L. Swatt

Title: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2003), View Bio
Specialties: Statistics, Crime Mapping and Analysis, Research Methods, Criminological Theory
Contact: 617.373.7427, m.swatt@neu.edu

Sean P. Varano

Title: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2002), View Bio
Specialties: Gang Violence, Homicide, Urban Crime and Violence, Juvenile Justice
Contact: 617.373.7065, s.varano@neu.edu

Christopher A. Walker

Title: Assistant Professor DBA
View Bio
Specialities: Leadership, Leadership Development, and Organizational Behavior
Contact: 617.373.8283

Geoff K. Ward

Title: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001), View Bio
Specialties: Race and Justice, Social Inequality, Juvenile Justice
Contact: 617.373.4468, g.ward@neu.edu

Criminal Justice Cooperative Education Faculty and Coordinators

Jean Egan

Title: Group Leader, (M.E., Northeastern University, 1978) View Bio
Specialties:
Contact: 617.373.3443, j.egan@neu.edu

Richard Conley

Title: Assistant Co-op Coordinator, (J.D. Boston University, 1991)View Bio
Specialties:
Contact: 617.373.3451, r.conley@neu.edu

Molly Sacco

Title: Assistant Co-op Coordinator, (B.S., Northeastern University)

Nancy Tavares

Title: Assistant Co-op Cordinator, (MSW, Boston University)View Bio
Specialties:
Contact: 617.373.3379, n.tavares@neu.edu

Stephen Williams, J.D.

Title: Assistant Co-op Cordinator, (J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 1984)View Bio
Specialties:
Contact: 617.373.3421, s.williams@neu.edu


Adjunct Faculty

Steven G. Catalano

Title: (M.S.) Assistant Director for Strategic Planning and Analysis, Harvard University Police Department, View Bio
Specialties: Public Policing and Crime Control Strategies

Janet Fine

Title: (M.S.) Executive Director, Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, View Bio
Specialties: Victimology, Gender and Crime

Honorable Roderick Ireland

Title: (J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.) Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Specialties: Juvenile Law and Children’s Rights

Jane Matheson

Title: (Ph.D.) Executive Director, Fields Corner Community Development Corp. and Criminal Justice Consultant, View Bio
Specialties: Terrorism, International and Organized Crime, Comparative Justice Systems

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