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Position: Professor
Degree(s): Ph.D., School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, 1982
Areas of Research/Interest: Juvenile Justice, Theory and Research on the Causes of Crime, Correctional Intervention, Law and Social Policy, Evaluation Research
Background:
Professor Donna Bishop specializes in juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency and law and social policy. She has written and published extensively on juvenile justice policy and practice, including the transfer of juveniles to criminal courts; juvenile detention reform; assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders; and the role of race, gender, and place in justice processing and outcomes.
Professor Bishop has recently been appointed Editor of Justice Quarterly. She has also served as principal investigator on a variety of funded research projects. Most recently, she has been conducting qualitative research on the comparative effects of juvenile and adult processing on the attitudes and behavior of adolescent offenders and quantitative research on the effects of transfer on recidivism.
In addition to her Ph.D. in criminal justice, Professor Bishop holds an advanced degree in counseling and has previously worked with offenders in juvenile detention, and adult prison settings. She has also worked with crime victims and trained police hostage negotiation teams in crisis intervention.
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Phone: 617.373.3362
Office: 400B Churchill Hall
Email: d.bishop@neu.edu
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