CURRICULUM VITAE (Updated 8/27/2014) SIYU LIU

Transcription

1 CURRICULUM VITAE (Updated 8/27/2014) SIYU LIU CONTACT INFORMATION Office 220, Department of Criminal Justice College of Professional Studies New Jersey City University 2039 Kennedy Blvd Jersey City, NJ Phone: EDUCATION August, 2014 May, 2010 June, 2008 Ph.D, Criminology and Criminal Justice - Dissertation Title: Sex Difference of Crime in the Life Course and the Role of Childbirth in Desistance Process - Dissertation Committee Chair: Shawn Bushway, Ph.D M.A., Criminology and Criminal Justice - Thesis Title: Does Poor Grade Lead to Deviance? A New Angle at School Performance and Delinquency Relationship - Academic Advisor: Robert Apel, Ph.D B.A, Biomedical English Department of Applied English, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China B.S., Psychology Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China EMPLOYMENT 09/2014~present Tenure-track Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice, College of Professional Studies New Jersey City University Course taught: CJ308 Multicultural Law Enforcement CJ310 Hate Crime Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant For RCRJ201 Introduction to Criminal Justice Process at School of 1

2 Fall 2010 Criminal Justice, University at Albany. RESEARCH INTERESTS Gender and crime Life-course transitions and criminal behaviors among youth The wellbeing of offenders with serious mental illness Research methods in panel analysis Comparative studies of capital punishment PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Liu, S., & Redlich, A. (in press). Jails and Courts: Intercept 3. In Griffin, P., Heilbrun, K., Mulvey, E., DeMatteo, D., & Schubert, C. (Eds). Criminal Justice and Mental Illness: Promoting Community Alternatives Using the Sequential Intercept Model. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Liu, S. (2014). Is the Shape of the Age-Crime Curve Different by Sex? Evidence from A National Sample with Flexible Non-Parametric Modeling. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Online First (published April 26, 2014). Liu, S. (2013). Capital punishment with a two-year suspension: China's gateway to fewer executions. Crime and Criminal Justice International. 30:1,1-38 Lu, H., Liang, B., & Liu, S. (2013). Serious violent offenses and sentencing decisions in China Are there any gender disparities? Asian Journal of Criminology. 8: Redlich, A., Liu, S., Steadman, H., Callahan, L., & Robbins, P. C. (2012). Is diversion swift? Comparing mental health court and traditional criminal justice processing. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 39:4, WORK IN PROGRESS Liu S., & Kim J. The Role of Welfare Participation in Criminal Desistance after Childbirth: A Comparison By Sex (In progress). Liu. S. The Effect of Parenthood on Crime: A Study Using National Sample (Under Review at Criminology) Liu. S., Picket, J., & Baker, T. Inside the Black Box: Prison Visitation, the Costs of Offending, and Inmate Social Capital, Social Ties and Prisoner Reentry (Under Review at Criminal Justice Policy Reivew) RESEARCH PROJECTS 01/2012~07/2013 Research Assistant Project 1: Youth Assessment and Screening (YASI) Consolidation Project in the New York State Project 2: Data Management of Family Courts in the New York State 2

3 Project 3: Alternative to Incarceration (ATI) Competitive Requests for Proposals (RFP) Data Package Preparation Office of Justice Research and Performance (OJRP), New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (NYS DCJS) Analysis done with PASW 17 01/2011~08/2012 Research Assistant Project: Recidivism in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 ; National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago Principle Investigator: Professor Shawn Bushway Funding Source: by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Analysis done with MS Excel and Stata /2010~01/2011 Research Assistant Project: Time to Diversion: Mental Health Court Enrollment vs. Traditional Processing Principle Investigator: Professor Allison Redlich Funding Source: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Analysis done with PASW 18 06/2009~01/2010 Research Assistant Project: Paternalism or the Evil Women Hypothesis : An Analysis of Violent Female Capital Offenders and the Execution Decisions in China Department of Criminal justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Principle Investigator: Professor Hong Lu Analysis done with PASW 18 and Stata /2007~05/2008 Research Assistant Project: Interrogation of White Collar Crimes Department of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China Principle Investigator: Professor Ai Ma CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Liu, S. (2013) The Sex-Based Effect of Sexual Behavior and Childbirth Lessons on Criminal Involvement in the Transition into Adulthood. American Society of Criminology 2013 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Apel, R., Bushway, S., Hair, E., & Liu, S. (2013) A Monthly Panel Analysis of the Impact of Employment on Arrest, American Society of Criminology 2013 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Liu, S. (2012) Gender in Average Life-Course Process: Nonparametric Analysis with Splines of the Age-Crime Curve. American Society of Criminology 2012 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 3

4 Liu, S. & Redlich, A. (2011) Is Diversion Swift? Examining the Efficiency of Mental Health Court Process. American Society of Criminology 2011 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Liu, S. (2010) Dropout-Delinquency Link Revisited. American Society of Criminology 2010 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Liu, S. (2010) Death Penalty with a Two-year Suspension: China s Gateway to Fewer Executions? Urban China Research Conference (UCRC) 2010, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, Albany, NY. Liu, S. (2009) Suspended Death: The Sentencing of 117 Capital Cases in China. American Society of Criminology 2009 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. REVIEWER EXPERIENCE Reviewer for Book Chapters Lu, H., & Liang, B. (Eds.) (2012). Jurisprudence. Book Series on Frontiers of Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Beijing: Renmin University Press. Reviewer for Journals Journal of Quantitative Criminology Criminal Justice Studies Journal of Crime and Justice Sociology of Education Youth and Society Albany Law Review (Invited Student Reviewer for Special Issue on Miscarriage of Justice) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Workshop 2009 Instrumental Variables Estimation with Application to Criminology - by Professor Robert Apel (School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY), Annual Conference, American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA HONORS AND AWARDS 2013~2014 Academic Year Graduate Student Organization Travel Award (Fall) 2010~2011 Academic Year Graduate Student Organization Travel Award (Fall) 2009~2010 Academic Years Graduate Student Teaching Assistantship 2008~2009 Academic Year Graduate Student Fellowship 4

5 2006~2007 Academic Year Excellent Student Scholarship Peking University Health Science Center 2004~2005 Academic Year Excellent Academic Performance Award Peking University Health Science Center PROFESSIONAL AFFILICATIONS American Society of Criminology QUANTITATIVE SKILLS Propensity Score Matching Panel Modeling with Longitudinal Dataset Nonparametric Spline Regression Group-based Trajectory Modeling Fixed Effect and Random Effect Modeling 5