Department of Criminal Justice and Sciences at Illinois State University

Dr. Jacqueline Schneider, Department Chair

Dr. Jacqueline Schneider

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CJS Hires a New Department Chair!

The Criminal Justice Sciences Department is excited to announce the hiring of our newest department chair, Dr. Jacqueline Schneider! Dr. Schneider comes to us from the University of South Florida and will arrive on campus June 1, 2009.

Dr. Schneider is an associate professor and department chair of Criminal Justice Sciences.  Her doctorate is from the University of Cincinnati and her Master’s in Public Administration from The Ohio State University.  She spent six years teaching and conducting research in England.  Her work on stolen goods markets has been put forward as best practice in England and has attracted interest by policy makers in Chilé.  She has been research active since graduate school.  In addition to her many other grants, she was the first recipient of the Home Office’s Innovative Research Challenge Grant (UK).  Since 1990, Dr. Schneider has been teaching at universities in the United States, receiving an outstanding teaching award.  She has authored several academic papers and chapters in books on gangs and stolen goods markets and is currently writing a book on the illegal trade in endangered flora and fauna. 

Recent Publications:

Schneider, J.L. (contract awarded) Trafficking in Endangered Species part of Global Crime and Justice book series. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.

Schneider, J.L. (2008) The Market Reduction Approach: The Application of a Crime Reduction Theft Strategy to Global Theft-related Problems. The Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (externally peer reviewed)

Schneider, J.L. (2008) Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for the Community.  By Stephen Schneider (Toronto, ON, CA: Toronto University Press, 2007, 359pp, £48 hb, £22.50pb.)  British Journal of Criminology. Book Review.

Schneider, J.L. (2008) Distance Learning: An Alternative Service Delivery for Criminal Justice Training and Higher Education.  For the Rule of Law: Criminal Justice Teaching and Training Across the World.  HEUNI: United Nations.

Schneider, J.L. (2006) “Professional Codes of Ethics:  Their Role & Implications for International Research” The Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 22 (2): 173-192.  (externally peer reviewed).