Jean McGloin, Ph.D.
Bio
McGloin's research focuses on three primary areas: criminological theory; groups and crime (e.g., street gangs, co-offender networks, delinquent peer groups); and offending specialization. For example, in her 2007 paper with Christopher Sullivan, Alex Piquero and Travis Pratt and in the Journal of Research in Crime and "Delinquency, Local life circumstances and offending specialization/versatility: Comparing opportunity and propensity models", she investigates to what extent shifting opportunity structures affect changes in offending specialization, relative to individuals' enduring propensities to offend. Results suggest that both individual-level propensity, as well as changes in local life circumstances (e.g., employment, marriage, drug and alcohol use), impact patterns of offense specialization/versatility in the short-term and therefore underscore the need for theoretical integration in criminology. With regard to her work on groups and crime, she has published on the social organization of street gangs in Newark, New Jersey, as well as on relationship between deviant peer networks/co-offender networks and various aspects of the criminal career, in such journals as Criminology, and Criminology and Public Policy.
Degrees
2004 Ph.D., Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University – Newark, NJ
2001 M.A., Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University – Newark, NJ
1999 A.B., Psychology, Bryn Mawr College – Bryn Mawr, PA