Eric Jefferis, Ph.D.
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
Lowry Hall 326B
Biography
Dr. Jefferis is one of the founding faculty of the College of Public Health. Currently, he is a Professor in the College of Public Health in the concentration area of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He originally came to 91³Ô¹ÏÍø in 2002 as a research fellow in the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and he previously taught in the Justice Studies Department. Prior to Kent State, Dr. Jefferis was a social scientist for the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Courses taught:
- Capstone in Public Health (undergraduate)
- Quantitative Methods (graduate)
- Grant Writing in Public Health (graduate)
- Public Health Research (undergraduate)
- Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences (graduate)
- Emerging Issues in Prevention Science (doctoral)
- Theories of Prevention Science I (doctoral)
- Theories of Prevention Science II (doctoral)
Education
PhD,Criminology & Policing, University of Cincinnati, 2004
MA, Criminal Justice, Radford University, 1993
BA, Administration of Justice Department, Pennsylvania 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1990
MA, Criminal Justice, Radford University, 1993
BA, Administration of Justice Department, Pennsylvania 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, 1990
Research Methods
Program evaluations, spatial analyses, quantitative methods
Publications
- Porter, L.C., Curtis, A., Jefferis, E., & Mitchell, S. (2020) Where’s the crime? Exploring divergences between call data and perceptions of local crime, British Journal of Criminology.
- Porter, L. C., Biasi, A. D., Mitchell, S., Curtis, A., & Jefferis, E. (2019). Understanding the Criminogenic Properties of Vacant Housing: A Mixed Methods Approach. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
- Cooley, W., Bemiller, M., Jefferis, E. & Penix, T. (2018). Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Community Policing in a Rust Belt City. Policing: An International Journal
- Andrew Curtis, Jacqueline W. Curtis, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Eric Jefferis & Susanne Mitchell (2018) Same space – different perspectives: comparative analysis of geographic context through sketch maps and spatial video geonarratives, International Journ
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