Criminology & Criminal Justice
Alison Burke
Assistant Professor
Alison S. Burke joined the Criminology Department in 2008. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of New Mexico and spent a year studying psychology at Oxford University. Dr. Burke earned her Master's Degree in Criminal Justice (MCJ) from the University of Colorado at Denver and her Ph.D. in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She worked for more than five years with juvenile delinquents in medium security treatment facilities and group homes in Colorado, and helped implement delinquency prevention programs in Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest and expertise involve juvenile justice, gender and crime, criminological theory, and environmental crime.
