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Criminologist, Professor, Scholar, & Consultant
Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow in the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and University of Padua, Italy.
Won’t you be my mentor? Understanding the challenges of finding an appropriate graduate school mentor
/by Jeffrey Ian RossIf you are or were a graduate student, you may know or learned that your studies and career in academia would be best supported by an appropriate mentor. Ideally, this individual is a professor in the department and university in which you have enrolled to pursue your graduate school studies, and this particular scenario will […]
How can researchers improve street ethnographies?
/by Jeffrey Ian RossOver the past century, a considerable amount of ethnographic research has been conducted and published. Ethnographies are no longer the primary research technique of anthropologists, as other types of social scientists, and students and scholars of business, law, and technology are also doing this kind of work too. Moreover, there are numerous types of ethnography […]
What’s in a name? Exconvict, formerly incarcerated, or returning citizen?
/by Jeffrey Ian RossIn the field of corrections, there are lots of labels, names, and terms (many that I dislike) that the public frequently applies to people who are housed in, live in, and are processed by jails and prison. These terms are frequently used in a simplistic and dehumanizing manner. Take for example, the word offender. I […]