People
 | Marcus Felson is Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is author of Crime and Everyday Life, Crime and Nature, and co-author of Opportunity Makes the Thief. Professor Felson is the originator of the routine activity approach to crime analysis. Professor Felson has lectured in Argentina, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Professor Felson’s long-time interest in the relationship between marginal routine activities and criminal behavior in their vicinity is at the core of secondary effects research. His routine activity theory is the basis for virtually all crime-related secondary effects studies and is cited, implicitly or explicitly, in secondary effects ordinances and court decisions. E-mail to: felson@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
 | Richard McCleary is Professor of Criminology, Environ-mental Health Sciences, and Planning at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of five books and more than 75 articles in these fields. His Applied Time Series Analysis has more than 1,000 citations. Professor McCleary has served on the editorial boards of Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Law and Policy Quarterly. Professor McCleary has studied secondary effects for nearly three decades. His research has been cited widely in secondary effects ordinances and in court decisions. E-mail to: mccleary@uci.edu |
 | James W. Meeker is Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean for the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of more than 50 books and articles in these areas as well as in the philosophy and application of law and in geographical distributions of crime incidents. In addition to his Ph.D., Professor Meeker holds a J.D. He has been an active consultant to federal, state, and local governments. Professor Meeker’s interest in secondary effects began nearly two decades ago when (with Richard McCleary) he conducted a study of sexually-oriented businesses in Garden Grove, CA. The 1991 report of that research is widely cited in secondary effects ordinances. His published secondary effects research has been cited in several court decisions. E-mail to: jwmeeker@uci.edu |
 | Wendy Regoeczi is Associate Professor of Criminology at Cleveland State University’s Department of Sociology. Her interest in the secondary effects of adult entertainment businesses stems from her research on neighorhood-level ambient crime risk ("hotspots"). She is the co-author of Rethinking Homicide: Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations published by Cambridge University Press and has conducted research on both national and city-level violent crime patterns. Her on-going research projects include an examination of neighborhood variations in crime and violence among local communities. E-mail to: w.regoeczi@csuohio.edu |
 | Jon M. Shane is assistant professor of criminal justice in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Professor Shane specializes in issues affecting the police including performance, administration, policy and practice. He is published in various journals including Behavioral Sciences and the Law, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and Police Chief. Professor Shane lectures across the United States and Canada on police performance issues and is author of What Every Chief Executive Should Know: Using Data to Measure Police Performance. His article on the CompStat process has been widely cited by other authors. Prior to his faculty appointment, Professor Shane had a 20-year career in policing before retiring as a captain from the Newark Police Department. His long-time interest in secondary effects emanates from his direct experience with prostitution and related offenses, which have implications for neighborhood quality of life. He is an active consultant on police-related issues. E-mail to: jmsnpd@comcast.net |
 | Dr. Richard Tewksbury is Professor in the Department of Justice Administration, having been at the University of Louisville since 1991. His research encompasses a broad range of topics, but is centered in three areas: institutional corrections, sex offenders and sex offender criminal justice policy and sex, gender and sexuality. In addition to his position at the University of Louisville Dr. Tewksbury also currently serves as the Research Director for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. His correctional research interests include correctional programming evaluation, institutional management and institutional violence. In regards to sex offender policy and community responses to sex offenses/offenders he focuses on issues of sex offender registration and policies to enhance community control of offenders. Dr. Tewksbury’s research regarding sex, gender and sexuality centers on issues of men’s studies, specifically the experience of sexuality, the structure and processes of casual sexual encounters and sexual lifestyle alternatives. Dr. Tewksbury has published extensively on all three issues. He is author or editor of 13 books and 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, and numerous book chapters and technical reports. Dr. Tewksbury has previously been the recipient of the 2005 Southern Criminal Justice Association’s Educator of the Year Award and the 2006 Peter P. Lejins’ Correctional Research Award from the American Correctional Association. Dr. Tewksbury is the Editor of the top-ranked criminal justice journal in the United States, Justice Quarterly, and former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice. He is actively involved in a host of professional associations, including serving as Chair of the American Correctional Association Research Council, Program Chair for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and he is a Past-President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Dr. Tewksbury holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University. E-mail to: tewks@louisville.edu |
 | George E. Tita is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Tita has published extensively on criminal justice policy issues pertaining to urban street gangs, illegal firearm markets, violence and their impact on local communities. Of special interest are the costs that crime imposes upon society in terms of its impact on housing markets and local businesses. In addition to his interest and expertise in criminal justice policy, Professor Tita is a nationally-recognized expert in the area of spatial analysis. Professor Tita regularly consults with state and local governments on secondary effects issues, including ambient crime risk and real estate pricing. E-mail to: gtita@uci.edu |
 | Alan C. Weinstein holds a joint appointment in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. A nationally recognized expert on planning law, Professor Weinstein is a past-Chair of the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association (APA) and Chair of the Sub-Committee on Land Use and the First Amendment in the American Bar Association's Section of State and Local Government Law. In addition to journal and law review articles on secondary effects and alternative avenues of communication, Professor Weinstein is the co-author with Brian W. Blaesser of Federal Land Use Law and Litigation (Thompson-West, 2007. (http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?product_id=13513986). E-mail to: alan.weinstein@law.csuohio.edu |