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Jennifer Smith is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Juvenile Justice. In her role, she serves as the Faculty Adviser for the Phi Sigma Upsilon (Criminal Justice Club). Smith holds a B.S. and M.A. in Criminal Justice from Penn State Harrisburg and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Administration and Leadership Studies for Nonprofit and Public Sectors at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her master’s thesis focused on the study of intergenerational patterns of offending within a local Pennsylvania county prison, developed through collaboration with professors at Penn State Harrisburg and local criminal justice officials. This collaboration resulted in presentations at national conferences and a publication in the Journal of Crime and Justice, for which she received the Penn State Harrisburg Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in 2012. Smith’s research interests encompass life-course and developmental criminology, biosocial criminology, corrections policy, and juvenile justice scholarship, emphasizing teaching and learning.
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