Eric Jefferis, Ph.D.
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
Lowry Hall 326B
Biography
Dr. Jefferis is one of the founding faculty of the College of Public Health. Currently, he is a Professor in the College of Public Health in the concentration area of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He originally came to Kent State University in 2002 as a research fellow in the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and he previously taught in the Justice Studies Department. Prior to Kent State, Dr. Jefferis was a social scientist for the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Courses taught:
- Capstone in Public Health (undergraduate)
- Quantitative Methods (graduate)
- Grant Writing in Public Health (graduate)
- Public Health Research (undergraduate)
- Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences (graduate)
- Emerging Issues in Prevention Science (doctoral)
- Theories of Prevention Science I (doctoral)
- Theories of Prevention Science II (doctoral)
Education
PhD,Criminology & Policing, University of Cincinnati, 2004
MA, Criminal Justice, Radford University, 1993
BA, Administration of Justice Department, Pennsylvania State University, 1990
MA, Criminal Justice, Radford University, 1993
BA, Administration of Justice Department, Pennsylvania State University, 1990
Research Methods
Program evaluations, spatial analyses, quantitative methods
Publications
- Porter, L.C., Curtis, A., Jefferis, E., & Mitchell, S. (2020) Where’s the crime? Exploring divergences between call data and perceptions of local crime, British Journal of Criminology.
- Porter, L. C., Biasi, A. D., Mitchell, S., Curtis, A., & Jefferis, E. (2019). Understanding the Criminogenic Properties of Vacant Housing: A Mixed Methods Approach. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
- Cooley, W., Bemiller, M., Jefferis, E. & Penix, T. (2018). Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Community Policing in a Rust Belt City. Policing: An International Journal
- Andrew Curtis, Jacqueline W. Curtis, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Eric Jefferis & Susanne Mitchell (2018) Same space – different perspectives: comparative analysis of geographic context through sketch maps and spatial video geonarratives, International Journ
