CURRICULUM VITAE



APRIL PATTAVINA, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

University of Massachusetts Lowell

EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D. in Law, Policy & Society

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1990 Master of Science

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Criminal Justice

1986 Bachelor of Science

University of Lowell, Lowell, MA

Criminal Justice (honors).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2006- Associate Professor

present Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

2000-2006 Assistant Professor

Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

1999. Visiting Assistant Professor

College of Criminal Justice

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1996 Instructor

Department of Sociology

Suffolk University

Boston, Massachusetts

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Pattavina, April. (2005). Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System, Editor. Sage Publications.

Journal Articles

Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve, Pattavina, April and Faggiani, Don, Reuland, Melissa (2008). Domestic Violence Preferred and Mandatory Arrest Laws:To What Extent to They Influence Police Arrest Decisions. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. forthcoming.

Pattavina, April, Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve and Faggiani, Don.(2007).“Policy, Place and Perpetrators: Using NIBRS to Examine Arrest Practices in Intimate Partner Violence”. Justice Research and Policy, Vol. 9. no. 2.

Pattavina, April, Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve, Faggiani, Don, and Helen Bentley. (2007) “A Comparison of the Police Response to Heterosexual versus Same Sex Intimate Partner Violence”. Violence Against Women. Vol. 13 no. 4.

Byrne, James and Pattavina, April. (2006). Assessing the Role of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment in an Evidence-Based Community Corrections System: Issues to Consider. Federal Probation. September.

Pattavina, April, Byrne, James and Garcia, Luis. (2006).“An Examination of Citizen Involvement in Crime Prevention in High Risk Vs. Low-to-Moderate Risk Neighborhoods. Crime & Delinquency. Vol. 54.no.4.

Taxman, Faye, Byrne, James and Pattavina, April.(2005). “Racial Disparity and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System:Exploring Impacts on Deterence.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Vol. 16. no. 4.

Gore, Richard and Pattavina, April. (2004)“Linking Offender Residence Probability Surfaces to a Specific Incident Location: An Application for Tracking Temporal Shifts in Journey to Crime Relationships and Prioritizing Suspect Lists and Mug Shot Order”. Police Quarterly. Vol.7. no.4

Pattavina, April.(2004) “The Emerging Role of Technology for Prisoner Reentry Initiatives.” Federal Probation. Vol. 68. no. 2.

Pattavina, April, Pierce, Glenn and Alan Saiz. (2002) “Urban Neighborhood Information Systems:Crime Prevention and Control Applications.” Journal of Urban Technology. Vol. 9. no. 2

Pattavina, April (1999). "The Influence of Community Violence on Child Development in an Urban Setting," Research in Politics and Society. Vol. 7.

Book Chapters

Byrne, James M. and Pattavina, April. (2007). “The Emerging Role of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment in an Evidence-Based Community Corrections System: Issues to consider” Edited by Al Roberts, Correctional Counseling and Treatment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Publishers.

Byrne, James M. and Pattavina, April.(2006) Institutional Corrections and Soft Technology. In, The New Technology of Crime Law and Justice, Edited by James M. Byrne and Don Rebovich, Don. Monsey NY:Criminal Justice Press.

Pattavina, April and Taxman, Faye.(2006) Community Corrections and Soft Technology. In, The New Technology of Crime, Law and Justice, Edited by James M. Byrne and Don Rebovich. Monsey NY: Criminal Justice Press.

Pattavina, April.(2005) “Geographic Information Systems and Crime Mapping in Criminal Justice Agencies”. Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System, Edited by April Pattavina. Sage Publications.

Pattavina, April. (2005). “The Future of Information Technology in Criminal Justice”. In, Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System. Edited by April Pattavina.Sage Publications.

Byrne, James and Pattavina,April. (1992). "The Effectiveness Issue: Assessing What Works in the Adult Community Corrections System." In Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions, edited by James M. Byrne, Joan Petersilia and Arthur Lurigio. Sage Publications: CA

Essays and Edited Works

Pattavina, April and Platz, Tiana.(2007). “Sex Offenders”. Encyclopedia of Privacy. Greenwood Press.

Pattavina, April. (2007) “National Crime Information Center”. Encyclopedia of Privacy. Greenwood Press.

Pattavina, April and Bellone, Eric.(2006) “Intelligence Led Policing and Organizational Learning.” Encyclopedia of Police Science. Routledge Press

Rafter, Nicole Hahn.(2000). Editor-in-Chief. Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Pattavina, April. Associate Editor. Phoenix, AZ.Oryx Press.

Book Reviews

Pattavina, April (1998). "Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914" by Eric A. Johnson and "Crime and Punishment in New Hampshire, 1812-1914" by Timothy Dodge. Law and History Review, vol. 16.

Pattavina, April (1995). "Politics and Plea Bargaining" by Candace McCoy. Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books, vol.6. no.2. Fred B. Rothman & Co.: CO.

Research Monographs and Technical Reports

Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve, Pattavina, April, Faggiani, Don and Reuland, Melissa (2006). Explaining the Prevalence, Context, and Consequences of Dual Arrest in Intimate Partner Cases. National Institute of Justice.

Taxman, Faye, Pattavina, April and Bouffard, Jeff. (2005). An Evaluation of Treatment in the Maine Adult Drug Courts. Report to Maine Drug Court Operations:University of Southern Maine.

Garcia, Luis, Gu, Joanne, Pattavina, April and Pierce, Glenn. (2003). Determinants of Citizen and Police Involvement in CommunityPolicing. Submitted to the City of Boston and the National Institute of Justice.

Gore, Richard Gore and Pattavina, April. (2001) Linking Offender Residence Probability Surfaces to a Specific Incident Location: An Application for Tracking Temporal Shifts in Journey to Crime Relationships and Prioritizing Suspect Lists and Mug Shot Order. (Published on web at the National Institute of Justice Crime Mapping Research Center)

Pattavina, April (2000). An Evaluation of HUD Safe Neighborhoods Initiative: The Market Mill Experience. Report to Peabody Properties, Property Management Division. September.

Pierce, Glenn, Pattavina, April, and Alan Saiz. (1999). An Analysis of Offender History, Mobility and Criminal Justice Involvement in the City of Boston. Report to the Boston Police Department, Operations Division

Byrne, James and Pattavina, April (1997). An Examination of Workload In the Division of Juvenile Services: Department of Corrections, State of Maine. Report to the Maine Commissioner of Probation.

Sagara, Carlton and Pattavina, April (1996). User's Guide for the Boston Children and Families Database. Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research, Northeastern University and The Boston Foundation.

Wiersema, Brian and Pattavina, April. (1993) Identifying and Classifying Drug-Related Homicides: A Maryland

Case Study. Unpublished Paper.Violence Research Group, University of Maryland.

Pattavina, April and Loftin, Colin (1992)The Social Distribution of the Secondary Victims of Homicide. Unpublished paper. Violence Research Group. University of Maryland.

Pierce, Glenn, McDevitt, John, Miliano, Robyn, and April Pattavina (1991). The Classification of Male and Female Offenders by the Massachusetts Probation System. Report to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Probation.

McDevitt, John, Pattavina, April, Miliano, Robyn, and Glenn Pierce (1990). The Impact of Crime on Small Business Viability in Boston Neighborhoods. National Institute of Justice:Washington, DC.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Bureau of Governmental Research. University of Maryland. (2004) An Evaluation of Maine Drug Courts. ($25,000)

National Office of Violence Against Women. (2003). Supporting The Police Response to Family Violence Through Information Technology: The Development of the Integrated Family Information System (IFIS) for the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. ($215,000)

Department of Housing and Urban Development and Peabody Properties Inc.(1999) Evaluation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Safe Neighborhoods Program at Market Mill Development, Lowell, MA. ($12,000).

The Boston Foundation. (1998). Continued Development of the Boston Children and Families Database.Co- Principal Investigator Glenn Pierce.($40,500).

Boston Police Department (1997). GIS Techniques to Support Neighborhood Policing Strategies. Co-Principal Investigators Glenn Pierce, April Pattavina and Alan Saiz. Funded by the Information Technology Division ($23,000).

Boston Police Department/National Institute of Justice. (1997). Determinants of Citizen Involvement in Community Policing.($13,000).

RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

Pattavina, April, Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve and Faggiani, Don. (2006).The Role of Place in Determining Arrest in Domestic Violence Incidents. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Los Angeles, CA.

Faggiani, Don, Hirschel, David, Pattavina, April and Buzawa, Eve. (2005). Using NIBRS to Determine the Nationwide Prevalence of Dual Arrest. Presentation at Bureau of Justice Statistics meeting:Crime and Statistics in the 21st Century:Using Data and Technology to Improve Justice. St. Petersburg, FL.

Buzawa, Eve, Hirschel, David and Pattavina, April. (2005). Domestic Violence Legislation, Policies and Practices:To What Extent do They Coincide? Presentation at the 14th World Conference of Criminology. Philadelphia, PA.

Hirschel, David, Pattavina, April, Buzawa, Eve and Faggiani, Don. (2004). Domestic Violence Mandatory Arrest Laws:To What Extent Do They Influence Practice. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Nashville, TN.

Pattavina, April, Hirschel,David, Buzawa, Eve, Faggiani, Don and Bentley, Helen.(2003). A Comparison of the Police Response to

Heterosexual versus Same Sex Intimate Partner Violence. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Denver, CO.

Hirschel, David, Buzawa, Eve, Reuland, Melissa, Faggiani, Don Faggiani and Pattavina, April. (2002) Explaining the Prevalence, Context and Consequences of Dual Arrest for Intimate Partner Cases. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Chicago, IL.

Pattavina, April and Madruga, Heather. (2002).A Multi-Level Analysis of Citizen Involvement in Community

Policing. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Boston, MA.

Gore, Richard and Pattavina, April. (2001) Linking Offender Residence Probability Surfaces to a Specific Incident Location: An Application for Tracking Temporal Shifts in Journey to Crime Relationships and Prioritizing Suspect Lists and Mug Shot Order. Presentation at the Fifth Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference. Dallas, TX.

Pattavina, April. (2001) Linking Criminological Theory and Crime Mapping Using Agency Data. Invited - Massachusetts Association of Crime Analysts.

Pattavina, April. (1999). Assessing the Impact of Community Violence on Academic Achievement. Invited - Mayor’s Symposium on Youth Development. Boston, MA

Pattavina, April.(1998).Using Social Agency Data for Policy Planning. Invited - Workshop hosted at the annual conference of the

Program for the Study of Violence and Social Conflict at Northeastern University. Boston, MA.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

2004, 2002 Criminal Justice Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

1998. Honored for Community Service;Using Data to Drive Community Change, The

Boston Foundation.

1998 Featured Researcher, Northeastern University Magazine

1996. Invited Fellow, Center for Innovation in Urban Education

Northeastern University

1991 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Maryland

1988 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Northeastern University

1986 Turner Award for Leadership and Service, University of Lowell

1986. Alpha Phi Sigma, National Criminal Justice Honor Society

1986 Excellence in Criminal Justice Research Award, University of Lowell

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