Curriculum Vitae



Elizabeth Griffiths

Rutgers University – Newark Phone: 973.353.3303

School of Criminal Justice Fax: 973.353.5896

Center for Law and Justice Email: elizabeth.griffiths@rutgers.edu

123 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102

Academic Appointments

2013-present Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

2011-2013 Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory University

2005-2006 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Emory University

Education

2007 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Toronto

1998 M.A. Sociology, University of Toronto

1997 B.A. (First Class Honours) Sociology, University of Calgary.

Law in the Liberal Arts (minor), Criminology (concentration)

Research & Teaching Interests

Criminological theory; life course criminology; communities and crime; miscarriages of justice; GIS and spatial methodologies; drug markets; court processing; judicial decision making

Awards

2013 Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers University

2010 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, Emory University

2003 American Society of Criminology Gene Carte Award, 2nd place (with Jorge M. Chavez)

2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2000 NSF’s National Consortium on Violence Research Pre-Doctoral Fellow (2000-2003)

2000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral

Fellowship (2000-2002)

2000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)

1999 University of Toronto Open Fellowship

1998 University of Toronto Open Fellowship

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

Braga, Anthony, Elizabeth Griffiths, Keller Sheppard, and Stephen Douglas. Forthcoming. Firearms Instrumentality: How Do We Know That Guns Make Situations More Lethal? Annual Review of Criminology.

Nir, Esther and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2019. The Thirteenth Juror. British Journal of Criminology 59 (2): 315-333.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Carolyn Yule, and Rosemary Gartner. 2018. Relationship (A)symmetries and Violence: Comparing Intimates and Non-Partners. Violence Against Women 24 (6): 697-717.

Xu, Jie and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2017. Shooting on the Street: Measuring the Spatial Influence of Physical Features on Gun Violence in a Bounded Street Network. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 33 (2): 237-253.

Nir, Esther and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2016. Sentencing on the Evidence. Criminal Justice Policy Review 29 (4): 365-390.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Johnna Christian. 2015. Considering focused deterrence in the age of Ferguson, Baltimore, North Charleston, and beyond. Policy Essay. Criminology & Public Policy 14 (3): 573-581.

Keith, Shelley and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2014. Urban Code or Urban Legend: Endorsement of the Street Code among Delinquent Youth in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Georgia. Race & Justice 4 (3): 270-298.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. 2013. Race, Space, and the Spread of Violence across the City. Social Problems 60 (4): 491-512.

Owens, Michael Leo and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2011/2012. Uneven Reparations for Wrongful Convictions: Examining the State Politics of Statutory Compensation Legislation. Albany Law Review 75 (3): 1283-1327.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Carolyn Yule and Rosemary Gartner. 2011. Fighting over Trivial Things: Explaining the Issue of Contention in Violent Altercations. Criminology 49 (1): 61-94.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. 2010. Clearing the Misty Landscape: Teaching Students What They Didn’t Know Then, But Know Now. College Teaching 58 (1): 32-37.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and George Tita. 2009. Homicide In and Around Public Housing: Is Public Housing a Hotbed, a Magnet, or a Generator of Violence for the Surrounding Community? Social Problems 56 (3): 474-493.

Yule, Carolyn and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2009. Household Structure, Coupling Constraints, and the Non-Partner Victimization Risks of Adults. The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 46 (4): 495-523.

Chavez, Jorge M. and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2009. Neighborhood Dynamics of Urban Violence: Understanding the Immigration Connection. Homicide Studies 13 (3): 261-273.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Robert D. Baller, Ryan E. Spohn, and Rosemary Gartner. 2008. Is There Such a Thing as Defended Community Homicide?: The Necessity of Methods Triangulation. Victims & Offenders 3 (2): 228-244.

Tita, George and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2005. Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide. The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 42 (3): 275-308.

Abridged version reprinted in: Crutchfield, Robert D., Charis E. Kubrin, George S. Bridges, and Joseph G. Weis (Eds.). 2008. Crime: Readings. Third Edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, pp. 330-338.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Jorge M. Chavez. 2004. Communities, Street Guns, and Homicide Trajectories in Chicago, 1980-1995: Merging Methods for Examining Homicide Trends across Space and Time. Criminology 42 (4): 941-978.

Textbooks:

Howell, James C. and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2019. Gangs in America’s Communities. 3rd Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Reviews, Reports, and Book Chapters:

Rich, Michael J., Moshe Haspel, Yuk Fai Cheong, Elizabeth Griffiths, Michael Kramer, Michael Leo Owens, and Lance Waller. 2019. Atlanta MTW Panel Study: Interim Outcomes at Wave III, Atlanta Housing MTW Benchmarking Study Phase III, Report No. 1. Atlanta, GA: Emory University Policy Analysis Laboratory, August 2019.

Rich, Michael J., Moshe Haspel, Yuk Fai Cheong, Elizabeth Griffiths, Kelly Hill, Michael Kramer, Michael Leo Owens, and Lance Waller. 2016. Atlanta MTW Panel Study: Interim Outcomes at Wave II, Atlanta Housing Authority MTW Benchmarking Study, Report No. 2. Atlanta, GA: Emory University, Policy Analysis Laboratory, February 2016.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Michael Leo Owens. 2014. Remedying Wrongful Conviction: Societal Obligations to Exonerees. Pp. 267-280 in Redlich and Acker (Eds.), Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. 2014. Public Housing and Crime Patterns. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Pp. 4143-52 in Bruinsma and Weisburd (Eds.). New York: Springer.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Jorge M. Chavez. 2014. Longitudinal Crime Trends at Places. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Pp. 2953-60 in Bruinsma and Weisburd (Eds.). New York: Springer.

Rich, Michael J., Moshe Haspel, Yuk Fai Cheong, Elizabeth Griffiths, Kelly Hill, Michael Kramer, Michael Leo Owens, and Lance Waller. 2014. Atlanta Housing Authority MTW Benchmarking Study: Wave I Household Survey Findings, Report No. 1. Atlanta, GA: Emory University, Center for Community Partnerships, February 2014.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Jessica M. Grosholz and Lesley Watson. 2011. Predatory Routines and Games. Pp. 117-33 in McGloin, Sullivan and Kennedy (Eds.), When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence. New York: Routledge.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. 2011. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis. Pp. 442-64 in Paul Vogt and Malcolm Williams (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods. London: Sage Publications.

Howell, James C., Arlen Egley, Jr., George E. Tita, and Elizabeth Griffiths. 2011. U.S. Gang Problem Trends and Seriousness, 1996-2009. National Gang Center Bulletin, No. 6. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs.

Reprinted in: Maxson, Cheryl L., Arlen Egley, Jr., Cheryl L. Maxson, Jody Miller, and Malcolm W. Klein (Eds.). 2014. The Modern Gang Reader. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. 2010. Turner, Ralph H.: Deviant Roles and the Social Construction of Behavior. Pp. 971-2 in Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory. Sage Publications.

Rich, Michael, Michael Leo Owens, Elizabeth Griffiths, Moshe Haspel, Kelly Hill, Adrienne Smith, and Katy Stigers. January 2010. McDaniel-Glenn Evaluation: Final Report.

Rich, Michael, Michael Leo Owens, Elizabeth Griffiths, Moshe Haspel, Kelly Hill, Adrienne Smith, and Katy Stigers. July 2009. McDaniel-Glenn Evaluation: Baseline Report.

Anselin, Luc, Elizabeth Griffiths, and George Tita. 2008. Crime Mapping and Hot Spot Analysis. Pp. 97-116 in Wortley, Mazerolle, and Rombouts (Eds.), Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. United Kingdom: Willan Publishing.

Welsh, Sandy, Myrna Dawson and Elizabeth Griffiths. 1999. Women and the Canadian Human Rights Act: Sexual Harassment Complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, pg. 181-215.

Research in Progress

Campbell, Walter, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Josh Hinkle. The Behavior of Police: Class, Race, and Discretion in Drug Enforcement. Under review.

Trocchio, Sarah and Elizabeth Griffiths. Rejecting by Race: How Residential Mortgage Denials Shape Racial Segregation in Urban America. Under review.

Scheuerman, Heather, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Daniel Medwed. When Errors are Harmless: The Influence of Prosecutorial Misconduct on Appellate Decisions. In progress, full manuscript available.

Valasik, Matthew, Jason Gravel, George Tita, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and Elizabeth Griffiths. Territory, Residence, and Routine Activities: A Typology of Gang Member Mobility Patterns with Implications for Place-Based Interventions. In progress, full manuscript available.

Griffiths, Elizabeth, Josh Hinkle, Kay Levine, and Volkan Topalli. Regulating Geography: The Role of Drug Free Zones for Drug Enforcement in Urban Criminal Justice. In progress, full manuscript available.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Carolyn Yule. Forced or Voluntary: Residential Instability in the Lives of Incarcerated Women.

Semenza, Daniel, Elizabeth Griffiths, Jie Xu, and Richard Stansfield. Accessibility and Instrumentality: The Spatial Influence of Gun Stores on Shootings in a Bounded Street Network.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. Punishment by Place: The Relationship between Neighborhood Conditions and Case Processing Outcomes for Felony Drug Offenders.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Sadaf Hashimi. Neighborhood Contexts of Co-Offending Networks.

D’Souza, Amanda, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Rosemary Gartner. Public Spaces and Commercial Places: Business Improvement Areas and the Suppression of Violent Crime.

Griffiths, Elizabeth and Rod Brunson. Policing in a Known Drug Location: Establishing Reasonable Suspicion.

Public Intellectual Works

Scheuerman, Heather and Elizabeth Griffiths. February, 11, 2016. Analyzing an Anomaly: Steven Avery and American Miscarriages of Justice. Uprooting Criminology: A Reasoned Plot Blog.

Griffiths, Elizabeth. March 2010. Engaged Scholarship and Service Learning Initiatives at Metro-Atlanta Universities. American Sociological Association newsletter, Footnotes.

Research Grants

June 2018. Rich, Michael (PI) and research team from Emory and the Urban Institute. MTW Benchmarking Study and Other Research Services. The Atlanta Housing Authority. Funded.

July 2015. Griffiths, Elizabeth (PI) and Lori Scott-Pickens (Co-PI): Launching a Criminal Justice and Community Building (CJCB) Program. Chancellor’s Seed Grants for New Initiatives Proposal. Funded: $75,000. (funded but declined)

July 2013: Rosemary Gartner (PI) and Elizabeth Griffiths (Co-PI): Neighborhood Change and Urban Violence. SSHRC Neighborhood Change Research Partnership. Funded: $20,500.

July 2013: Elizabeth Griffiths (PI): REU Supplement, National Science Foundation (NSF) Law and Social Sciences Program. Funded: $10,080.

April 2013 – June 2018: Elizabeth Griffiths (PI), Kay Levine (Co-PI), Volkan Topalli (Co-PI), and Joshua Hinkle (Co-PI): Race, Place & Discretion in the Prosecution of Drug-Free Zone Charges. National Science Foundation (NSF) Law and Social Sciences Program. Funded: $357,669.

2013-2018: Michael Rich (PI) and collaborators: Atlanta Moving to Work Panel Study. Atlanta Housing Authority. Funded: Estimated total budget for Waves 1-3: $1.6 M.

January 2011 – August 2011: Elizabeth Griffiths (PI) and Kay Levine (Co-PI): Drug Selling, Criminal Sanctions, and Race in Urban and Suburban Context: Felony Drug Arrests, Drug Free School Zone (DFSZ), and Drug Free Residential Zone (DFRZ) Offenses in Fulton County, Georgia. Race and Difference Initiative and the Office of Community and Diversity at Emory University. Funded: $5,000.

September 2009 – August 2010: In collaboration with the Urban Institute, Michael Rich (PI), Michael Leo Owens (Co-PI), Elizabeth Griffiths (Co-PI), and Lance Waller (Co-PI): Assessing the Impact of Public Housing Transformation on Crime Patterns in Atlanta. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Funded: $90,000.

February 2006 – December 2009: Michael Rich (PI), Michael Leo Owens (Co-PI), and Elizabeth Griffiths (Co-PI). Evaluation of the McDaniel-Glenn HOPE VI Revitalization. Department of Housing and Urban Development, February 2006. Funded: $400,000.

July 2005: Dr. Michael Cusimano (PI; Neurosurgery, St. Michael’s Hospital) and team of collaborators. Brain Injury and Violence: Understanding and Addressing Disparities in the Vulnerable. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Funded: $5,000.

April 2005 – December 2005: Elizabeth Griffiths (Co-PI) and Carolyn Yule (Co-PI). Family Structure, Routine Activities, and Women’s Experiences of Non-Partner Violence: The Role of Female-Headed Households in Community Context. National Consortium on Violence Research. Access granted to the U of T Statistics Canada Research Data Centre, April 2005. Funded: $3,250.

July 2004 – September 2004: Elizabeth Griffiths. Dissertation Research Funding. John Beattie Research Fund (Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto). Funded: $1,260.

October 2003 – September 2004: Elizabeth Griffiths (Co-PI) and Jorge Chavez (Co-PI). Merging Spatial and Temporal Methodologies in Community-Level Violence Research. National Consortium on Violence Research (supported by NSF no. SES-0215551). Funded: $7,915.

Graduate Student Grants

2017-2018: Elizabeth Webster, A Post-Conviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration. National Institute of Justice, Graduate Fellowship in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Funded: $31,771.

Current Research Projects

Race, Place & Discretion in the Prosecution of Drug-Free Zone Charges (with Kay Levine, Joshua Hinkle, and Volkan Topalli)

Relationship Symmetry and Lethal Violence (with Carolyn Yule and Rosemary Gartner)

Appellate Determinations of Prosecutorial Misconduct (with Heather Scheuerman)

Determinants of Judicial Sentencing Decisions (with Esther Nir)

Business Improvement Areas and Violent Crime Concentration in Toronto (with Amanda D’Souza and Rosemary Gartner)

Gun Stores and Gun Violence (with Daniel Semenza, Richard Stansfield, and Jie Xu)

Conference Presentations

2020 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Heather Scheuerman. “Regulating Prosecutorial Error: When Appellate Courts Ameliorate Prosecutorial Overreach and Provide Relief for Defendants.” Scheduled to be presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington DC, November; conference cancelled due to COVID-19.

2019 Yule, Carolyn and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Forced or Voluntary: Residential Instability in the Lives of Incarcerated Women.” Paper to be presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

2018 Scheuerman, Heather and Elizabeth Griffiths. “When Errors are Harmless: The Influence of Prosecutorial Misconduct on Appellate Decisions.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2017 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Kay L. Levine. “Zone Violations: Investigating the Conditions under which Drug Sellers are Subject to Drug-Free Zone Penalties.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Philadelphia, November.

2016 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Punishment by Place: The Relationship between Neighborhood Conditions and Case Processing Outcomes for Felony Drug Offenders.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, New Orleans, November.

2016 Campbell, Walter, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Joshua Hinkle. “Discovering Drug Crimes: Explaining Police Rationales for Initial Contact in Drug Stops across Place.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, New Orleans, November.

2016 Sullivan, Mercer, Ric Curtis, and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Still Getting Paid? Neighborhood Change and Crime.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, New Orleans, November.

2015 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Walter Campbell, Sarah Trocchio, and Jie Xu. “In the Market for Violence: Exploring the Relationship between the Illicit Drug Markets and Local Levels of Violence.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington, November.

2014 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Sarah Trocchio and Walter Campbell. “Selling Drugs in the City and the Suburbs: An Exploratory Analysis of the Geography of Arrests.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

2014 Trocchio, Sarah and Elizabeth Griffiths. “A Good Deal? Assessing the Benefits and Burdens of Plea Bargains to Defendants Charged with Drug Selling Activities.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

2014 Campbell, Walter and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Selling through the Seasons: An Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Drug-Free Zone Arrests.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

2013 Nir, Esther and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Producing Convictions: Exploring the Social Dimensions of Evidence Attraction in Violent Criminal Cases.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2013 Trocchio, Sarah and Elizabeth Griffiths. “The Political Economy of Latino Neighborhoods: How the Influence of Conventional Residential Lending on Violent Crime relates to Ethnicity and Immigrant Concentration.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2013 Chavez, Jorge M. and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Patterns of Immigration and Neighborhood Trajectories of Urban Violence.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2012 Griffiths, Elizabeth and George Tita. “Exploring Longitudinal Patterns in Gang Presence across American Cities, 1996-2009.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Chicago, November.

2012 Nir, Esther and Elizabeth Griffiths. “The Role of Evidentiary Weight in Judicial Sentencing Decisions: How Evidence affects Post-Conviction Discretion in Burglary and Assault Cases.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Chicago, November.

2012 Gartner, Rosemary, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Carolyn Yule. “How the Nature of Violence is affected by the Relative Status of Opponents.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Chicago, November.

2012 Rich, Michael, Michael Leo Owens, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Moshe Haspel. “Relocation, Satisfaction, and Engagement: Findings from the HOPE VI Redevelopment of Atlanta's McDaniel Glenn.” Paper presented at the Urban Affairs Association conference, Pittsburgh, April.

2011 Matthews, Shelley Keith and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Who Adopts the Code of the Street?: An Analysis of Juvenile Offenders in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Georgia.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington D.C., November.

2011 Owens, Michael Leo and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Making It Easier on the Road to Justice: Why States Adopt Compensation Laws for the Wrongly Convicted.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington D.C., November.

2011 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Jessica M. Grosholz, and Lesley Watson. “Predatory Routines and Games.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington D.C., November.

2010 Gartner, Rosemary, Elizabeth Griffiths, and Carolyn Yule. “Understanding the Issue of Contention in Violent Altercations between Intimate Partners.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

2009 Watson, Lesley, Jessica Grosholz, and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Two Actors, Three Roles: A Game Theoretic Extension of Routine Activities Theory for Interpersonal Violence.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Philadelphia, November.

2008 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “On Using Experiments in a Seminar on Miscarriages of Justice.”

Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, St. Louis, November.

2007 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Carolyn Yule, and Rosemary Gartner. “Resorting to Violence: The

Role of Symmetry in Women’s Social Relationships.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2005 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Carolyn Yule. “Women’s Experiences of Non-Partner Victimization: The Role of Female-Headed Households in Community Context.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Toronto, November.

2005 Chavez, Jorge M. and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Beyond the Black Ghetto: The Role of Race and Concentrated Disadvantage on Homicide Trajectories in Chicago, 1980-1995.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Toronto, November.

2004 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Trading Spaces: The Movement of Homicide Incidents Out of the Downtown Core, Buffalo, NY 1950-1999.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Nashville, November.

2004 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Jorge M. Chavez. “Not Just the Ghetto: Neighborhood Characteristics of Homicide Trajectories, Chicago 1980-1995.” Roundtable paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August.

2003 Griffiths, Elizabeth and George E. Tita. “Gangs, Guns, and Drugs in the Community: Changes in the Mobility Patterns of Victims and Offenders Involved in Homicide.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Denver, November.

2003 Chavez, Jorge M. and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Communities, Guns, and Lethal Violence: Examining Chicago Homicide Trends across Space and Time, 1980-1995.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Denver, November.

2002 Griffiths, Elizabeth and George E. Tita. “Spatial and Social Process of Homicide: Bringing Offenders and Victims Together in Watts (1980-2000).” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2001 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Who’s Who in Homicide? Network Connections among Homicide Victims, Offenders, and Witnesses in Buffalo (1993-1996).” Paper presented to the National Consortium on Violence Research at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Atlanta, November.

2000 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Robert D. Baller, and Rosemary Gartner. “A Spatial Analysis of Seattle and Buffalo Homicide, 1986-1990.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, November.

1999 Gillis, A.R. and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Limiting Liability and White Collar Crime in 19th Century France.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Toronto ON, November.

1998 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Gendered Outcomes of Self-Control: A Preliminary Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) Model.” Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, Washington D.C., November.

Invited Conferences & Presentations

2020 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Accessibility and Instrumentality: The Spatial Influence of Gun Stores on Shootings in a Bounded Street Network.” To be presented at Harvard University, May 15, 2020; cancelled due to COVID-19.

2010 Rich, Michael, Michael Leo Owens and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Evaluation of the McDaniel Glenn HOPE VI Revitalization.” Presented to the Atlanta Housing Authority, December.

2010 Griffiths, Elizabeth, Michael Rich, Michael Leo Owens, and Lance Waller. “The Effect of Public Housing Transformation on Crime in Atlanta.” Presented at the American Sociological Association meetings on an invited Regional Spotlight Panel, Atlanta.

2010 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Provocations to Violence: Explaining the Issue of Contention in Violent Altercations.” Presented at Emory School of Law, April.

2010 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Provocations to Violence: Explaining the Issue of Contention in Violent Altercations.” Presented at the University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology, March.

2008 Griffiths, Elizabeth. “Reintegrating Prisoners into Society: Sentencing, Incarceration and Consequences.” Presented as part of Leadership Atlanta Panel, Atlanta, December.

2006 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Jorge M. Chavez. “The Criminal Careers of Communities.” Presented at Florida International University, Miami, March.

2004 Griffiths, Elizabeth and Jorge M. Chavez. “Community Trajectories.” Presented at the National Consortium on Violence Research summer workshop, Miami, June.

2000 Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. Attended meetings as an Expert Observer, Vienna Austria, April.

Teaching Experience

Rutgers University

Undergraduate: CJ 407/425 Miscarriages of Justice, CJ 413/499 Director of the Internship in Criminal Justice, CJ 411 Juvenile Gangs & Co-Offending

Graduate: CJ 543: Intermediate Statistics, CJ 614: Communities and Crime, CJ 511: Advances in Criminological Theory, CJ 518: Contemp. Criminological Theory, CJ 513: Crime in the Life Course, CJ 652: Teaching Crime and Criminal Justice in Higher Education

Emory University

Undergraduate: SOC 249 Criminology, SOC 445 Miscarriages of Justice, SOC 494R: Director of Sociology Internship

Graduate: SOC 714: Communities and Crime, SOC 554: Causes of Crime

Teaching Preparation & Teaching-related Grants

Association of College and University Educators, Certificate in Teaching Effectiveness (December 2015)

Criminology, Soc 249 syllabus reproduced in the American Sociological Association’s Teaching Criminology: A Collection of Syllabi, Assignments, and other Resources: Fifth Edition. ASA Resource Materials for Teaching, edited by Timothy Brezina (2008)

Course Development Grant – competitive grant awarded from the Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Emory University, to develop Soc 445, Miscarriages of Justice. Award: $3,000 (Summer 2007)

Teaching Consultation Pairs Grant awarded from the Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Emory University, with Dr. Patricia Brennan (Department of Psychology) (Spring 2007)

Participant in the Marshall Gregory’s Teaching Pedagogy Seminar – Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Emory University (May 2007)

Now You Know: Sustained Engagement (Experiential Learning in the Community) Workshop, Emory University (October 2005)

Participant in the Sociology Curriculum Course: Teaching in Higher Education (University of Toronto)

Graduate Committee Membership

Rutgers University

Dissertation Chair

D’Souza, Amanda (in progress)

Campbell, Walter (2019)

Webster, Elizabeth (2018) *Recipient of the Rutgers University Dean’s Dissertation Award

Nir, Esther (2016)

Dissertation Committee Member

Matlin, Alisa (in progress)

Turchan, Brandon (in progress)

Chukwuedo, Chris (in progress)

Begum, Popy (in progress)

Wade, Brian (in progress)

Pegram, Kashea (in progress)

Bhardwaj, Ntasha (in progress)

Lateano, Tom (in progress)

Killinger, Danette (in progress)

Kubic, Jo (2019)

Trocchio, Sarah (2019)

Saad, Marina (2019)

Sachs, Nicole (2018)

Schnell, Cory (2017)

Onat, Ismail (2016)

Irvin-Erickson (Gaziarifoglu), Yasemin (2014)

Lesneskie, Eric (2013)

Marteache, Nerea (2012)

Empirical Paper Chair

Trocchio, Sarah (2017)

Campbell, Walter (2016)

Webster, Elizabeth (2016)

Grossman, Leigh (2013)

Nir, Esther (2012)

Empirical Paper Committee Member

Chukwuedo, Chris (in progress)

Begum, Popy (in progress)

Wilson, Lauren (2018)

D’Souza, Amanda (2018)

Kubik, Jo (2017)

Sachs, Nicole (2015)

Novich, Madeleine (2014)

DeWitt III, Samuel E. (2014)

Onat, Ismail (2014)

Daly, Sarah (2013)

Systma, Victoria (2013)

Independent Study

Costa, Jordan (Fall 2019)

Webster, Elizabeth (2014)

Core Exam Chair

Lateano, Thomas (2015)

Emory University

Dissertation Committee Member

Grosholz, Jessica (2014, external)

Brisman, Avi (2012)

Scheuerman, Heather (2011)

Keith (Matthews), Shelley (2009)

Bucher, Jake (2008)

Masters Chair

Davis, Tiffany (2008)

Independent Study

Armstrong, Julie (2011)

Wellington, Andre (2009)

Brisman, Avi (2009)

Brisman, Avi (2008)

Undergraduate Committee Membership

Rutgers University

Honors Thesis Chair

Reyes, Daniel (2020)

Emory University

Honors Thesis Chair

Cohen, Dale (2009)

Spicer, Jennifer (2007)

Honors Thesis Committee Member

Leitner-Zieff, Ariel (2011)

Gregush, Roger (2011)

Morris, Laura (2011)

Melia, Elizabeth (2009)

Hillyer, Whitney (2009)

Coffey, Karly (2009)

Dinger, Lauren (2008)

Borochoff, Elise (2007) *Honors B.A./M.A.

Meager, Brett (2007)

Ritchwood, Tiarney (2006)

Independent Study

Fogel, David (2010, spring)

Gittleman, Dana (2008, spring)

VanHorn, Kelly (2007)

Rosenblum, Tali (2007)

Service Activities

Rutgers School of Criminal Justice Service

2018-2021: Ph.D. Program Director

2019-2021: Scheduling Committee, Member

2019-2020: Curriculum Development Committee, Member

2018-2019: Research and Professional Development Committee, Member

2018: Ad-hoc Part Time Lecturer Committee, Member

2018: Ad-hoc Grants Committee, Chair

2018: Non-Tenure Track Evaluation Committee, Member

2017-2018: Comprehensive Exam Committee, Chair

2017-2018: Search Committee, Member

2017: Ad-hoc Teaching Committee, Member

2015-2016: Peer Evaluation Committee, Member

2015-2016: Research and Professional Development Committee, Chair

2016: SCJ Community Day, Habitat for Humanity, Faculty Volunteer

2014-2016: Grants Committee, Chair

2014-2015: Dean Search Committee, Member

2013-2015: Qualifying Examination Committee, Member

2012-2013, 2014-2015: Research and Professional Development Committee, Member

2011-2015: Ph.D. Committee/Admissions & Awards, Member

2011-2012: Library Committee, Member

2011-2012: Ad-hoc Committee on Grant Activity, Member

2011-2012: Ad-hoc Committee on Methods Curriculum, Member

Rutgers University Service

2019-2020: Chancellor Evaluation Committee, Member

2019-2020: Dean for Criminal Justice Search Committee, Member

2018-2019: University Academic Scheduling Committee, Member

2018-2019: TA/GA Campus Grievance Committee, Faculty Replacement Pool Member

2018-2019: Graduate School Academic Programs & Policies Committee, Member

2017: Rutgers University-Newark Masters Student Recruitment Day, Speaker

2016: Tenure and Promotion Committee, School of Social Work, Member

Emory University Sociology Department Service

2008 - 2010: Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium (SEUSS), Director

2007 - 2010: Honor Council Liaison

2007 - 2011: Undergraduate Program Committee Member

2007 - 2008: Graduate Program Committee Member

2006 - 2011: Social Inequality/Organizations Preliminary Examination Committee Member

2005 - 2011: Criminology Preliminary Examination Committee Member

2006 - 2009: Recording Secretary

2005 - 2009: Social Committee Member (Co-Chair 2006-2007)

2006 - 2007: Brown Bag Seminar Committee Member

2005 - 2007: Job Seminar Committee Member

Emory University Service

2008 - 2011: Admissions & Scholarships Standing Committee (elected), Emory, Member

2009 - 2010: Admissions & Scholarships Committee, Recording Secretary

2008 - 2011: Alpha Delta Phi, Faculty Advisor

2008: Subcommittee for Summer Course Development Grants, Member

(Center for Teaching Curriculum)

2007 - 2011: Center for Injury Control, Education Committee, Member

2006 - 2011: Community Building Fellows Program, Faculty Advisory Committee Member

(Office of University and Community Partnerships)

Presentations on Professional Development

2020: Professional Development Seminar: “Ask Anything Q&A.” School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University.

2019: Professional Development Seminar: “Preparing for Teaching.” School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University.

2015: Professional Development Seminar: “External Funding for Dissertation Research.” School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University.

2014: Professional Development Seminar: “Getting an Academic Job.” School of Criminal

Justice, Rutgers University.

2012: Professional Development Seminar: “The Empirical Paper.” School of Criminal Justice,

Rutgers University.

2011: Professional Development Seminar: “Grants and External Funding.” School of

Criminal Justice, Rutgers University.

2009: Pro-seminar: “Cultivating Relationships – and Interacting Successfully – with Faculty.”

Department of Sociology, Emory University

2005, 2007 & 2009: Job Seminar: “Applying for an Academic Job.” Department of Sociology,

Emory University

2005: Professional Development Workshop I: “How to Get a Tenure-Track Job.” Department of

Sociology, University of Toronto

2003 & 2005: Professional Development Workshop III: “How to Navigate Comprehensive

Exams.” Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

Service to Profession

2019-2022: Elected as Executive Counselor for the Division of Crime and Place, American

Society of Criminology

2014: Committee Member for the Student Paper Award, ASA, Crime, Law and Deviance section

2014: Program Committee Sub-Area Chair for “Neighborhood Effects and Urban Change,”

ASC, San Francisco

2013: Program Committee Sub-Area Chair for “Neighborhood and Place Effects,” ASC, Atlanta

2010: Committee Member for the Student Paper Award, ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance section

2010: Member of the Local Arrangements Committee, ASA, Atlanta

2010: Member of the Teaching Committee, ASC, San Francisco

2009: Sub-Area Chair for “Multi-Level Models,” ASC, Philadelphia

2008: Committee Member for Student Paper Award, ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance section

2007: Member of the Local Area Committee, ASC, Atlanta

2004: Chair of Crime, Law & Deviance Roundtable, ASA, San Francisco

Editorial Boards

Associate Editor of Criminal Justice Review, 2019 to present

Editorial Advisory Board of Criminology, 2012 to present

Editorial Board of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods, 2016 to present

Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2013 to present

Editorial Board of Criminological Highlights, 2000 to 2005

Reviewer

Journals

Criminology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, The Sociological Quarterly, The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, British Journal of Sociology, Violence Against Women, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Urban Affairs, Law & Social Inquiry, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Homicide Studies, Applied Geography, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Race & Justice, Police Quarterly, Criminal Justice Policy Review, American Journal of Preventative Medicine

Grants

National Science Foundation, Sociology Program

National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program

Tenure and Promotion (External)

The University of Memphis

Oakland University

Professional Memberships & AFFILIATIONS

The New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research, Rutgers University, Faculty Affiliate, 2019 to present

Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2009 to 2011

Center for Injury Control, Emory University, Faculty Affiliate, 2007 to 2011

Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Affiliated Faculty Member, Emory University, 2007 to 2011

Southern Sociological Association, 2005 to 2010

Homicide Research Working Group, 2005 to 2007 and 2009 to 2011

Vice-President of the U of T Graduate Sociology Student Association, 2001 to 2002

Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, 2000 to 2002

Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the National Consortium on Violence Research, 2000 to 2003

Junior Fellow of the Center of Criminology, University of Toronto, 2000 to 2005

American Sociological Association, 1999 to 2011

American Society of Criminology, 1998 to present

Consulting

Oct 2010 National Gang Center

May 2010 The Federal Defender Program, Inc.

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