Staff
Jeffrey Clutter
Jeff graduated from Xavier University, majoring in criminal justice with a minor in psychology. He received his Master’s degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in law enforcement and crime prevention from the University of Cincinnati. Jeff is currently a fourth year doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati’s School of Criminal Justice, with an emphasis on criminology and crime prevention. His research interests include environmental criminology, police effectiveness, hotspot crime mapping, and situational crime prevention.
Derek Cohen
Derek is currently working on his dissertation in the School of Criminal Justice.He possesses a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include longitudinal analysis of policy and programs, as well as the political nature of the criminal justice system. In addition, Derek has taught courses in statistics, criminal procedure, research methods, courts, and corrections.
Rustu Deryol
Rustu earned a Bachelors of Art from the Police Academy in Turkey in 1997, and a Master of Science in Computer Forensics from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY in 2009. He is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice. He has also completed the GIS certificate program from the geography department at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include crime concentration (hotspots) and evaluating crime prevention efforts in policing agencies. In addition to mapping crime, he is also interested in social network analysis.
Samantha Henderson
Samantha is a third-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated from the Wilfrid Laurier University in 2009 with an Honours B.A. in Criminology and Contemporary Studies, and a minor in Psychology. She earned an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Waterloo in 2011. She is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship award holder. Her research interests include focused deterrence, correctional programming, and criminological theory.
Gabrielle Isaza
Gabby is a second-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated from the University of San Diego in 2011 with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology, and earned her M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2012. Her research interests include situational crime prevention and school crime violence.
Murat Ozer
Murat Ozer is a Police Superintended at Turkish National Police. He received his Ph.D. in School of Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2010. His research interests include crime prevention efforts in policing agencies, violence reduction strategies, and anti-terrorism policies. His main interest in anti-terrorism policies is how to prevent people in joining terrorist organizations and how to quit/deter certain people who are already in touch with terrorist organizations.
Sam Peterson
Sam is a third-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 2010 with a B.A. in Criminology and Psychology, and earned a M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. His research interests include life-course criminology, situational crime prevention, policy and program evaluation, and correctional programming.
Ashley Sandburg
Ashley earned her Bachelor's in Art History from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. From 2009, she assisted with office management, organization, and scheduling for both the Institute of Crime Science and the Corrections Institute. Since early 2012, she has worked solely at ICS, developing and maintaining security protocols, staff schedules, funding and reimbursement, as well as overall office management.