Outreach and Service

Service to the Community: 

April 2006-pres.  Member, Board of Directors, Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), Columbus, Ohio http://www.saveforyouth.org/index.htm

Served as Keynote speaker: SAVE sponsored "Columbus Unites to Stop Violence." February 1, 2007 SAVE_Winternewsletter2007.pdf

June 1999-2001  Member, Board of Directors, Institute for the Development of African American Youth (IDAAY), Philadelphia, PA. http://www.idaay.org/home.htm

2002-2005         Advisor, IDAAY, Philadelphia, PA.    http://www.idaay.org/home.htm

1999-2005         Advisor, Community Advisory Board, Women’s Christian Alliance, Philadelphia, PA. http://www.wcafamily.org/

1994-1996         Mentor & Tutor, Friends of Island Academy, New York, NY http://www.foiany.org/foia/index.php

Service to the Academic Community:

Peer Reviewer:

1999                 Ad Hoc Reviewer, The Prison Journal

1999                 Ad Hoc Reviewer, National Institute of Justice

2000-present     Reviewer, Social Problems

2000-present     Reviewer, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

2001-present     Reviewer, Criminal Justice Review

2001-present     Reviewer, Criminology

2002-present     Reviewer, Law and Society Review

2002-present     Reviewer, Criminology and Public Policy

2003-present     Reviewer, Justice Quarterly

2004                 Member, American Society of Criminology Program Committee

2004                 Reviewer, University of Chicago Press

2004                 Reviewer, Injury Prevention

Professional Association Service:

2001-2003     Session Chair, American Society of Criminology

2003-2005     Member, Academy of Criminal Justice Science Program Committee

2004-2006     Member, American Society of Criminology Program Committee

2007            Area Chair, American Society of Criminology Program Committee

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

2006-present    Member, National Council on Family Relations

1993-present     Member, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

1994-present     Member, American Society of Criminology

1997-present     Member, American Sociological Association

2000-present     Member, Alpha Phi Sigma, National Criminal Justice Honor Society

1998-2000         Member, The Homicide Working Group