Courses Taught
CRJ 101 Law Enforcement and Community Relations
CRJ 102 Juvenile Delinquency and Justice
CRJ 203 Criminology
CRJ 316 Victimology
CRJ 405 Corrections and Reentry
CRJ 425 Policy & Program Evaluation
CRJ 410W Senior Project
Education
- PhD, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, 2018
- M.A., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, 2015
- B.S., Criminology, The College of New Jersey, 2013
Publications
- Chae Jaynes and Deanna N. Devlin, Psychological perspectives on juvenile homicide in K.M. Heide (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge: Abingdon-on-Thames (2023).
- Benjamin W. Fisher and Deanna N. Devlin, Cops and Counselors: How School Staffing Decisions Relate to Exclusionary Discipline Rates and Racial/Ethnic Disparities, Race and Social Problems, 2023.
- Chae Jaynes, Mateus R. Santos, Kelly Kortright and Deanna N. Devlin, Age-graded heterogeneity in the relationship between hours of work and crime, Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2023.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Mateus Renno Santos, The association between police officers in schools and students' longer term perceptions of police as procedurally just, Criminology and Public Policy, 21(2) 2022, 273-301.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Benjamin W. Fisher, An Examination of School Resource Officers as an Approach to Reduce Social Disturbances in Schools: Evidence from a National Longitudinal Study, Journal of School Violence, 20(2) 2021, 228-240.
- Benjamin W. Fisher and Deanna N. Devlin, School Crime and the Patterns of Roles of School Resource Officers: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study, Crime and Delinquency, 66(11) 2019.
- Terrence P. Thornberry, Brook Kearley, Denise C. Gottfredson, Molly P. Slothower, Deanna N. Devlin and Jamie J. Fader, Reducing crime among youth at risk for gang involvement: A randomized trial, Criminology and Public Policy, 17(4) 2018, 953-989.
- Denise C. Gottfredson, Brook Kearley, Terrence P. Thornberry, Molly Slothower, Deanna N. Devlin and Jamie J. Fader, Scaling Up Evidence-Based Programming using a Public Funding Stream: A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy for Court-Involved Youth, Prevention Science, 19(7) 2018, 939-953.
- Deanna N. Devlin, Mateus R. Santos and Denise C. Gottfredson, An Evaluation of Police Officers in Schools as a Bullying Intervention, Evaluation and Program Planning, 71 2018, 12-21.
- Deanna N. Devlin, Policing and the school-to-prison pipeline in J. Deakin, E. Taylor and A. Kupchik (Eds.), The Palgrave international handbook of school discipline, surveillance and social control, : Palgrave Macmillan (2018).
- Deanna N. Devlin and Denise C. Gottfredson, The Roles of Police Officers in Schools: Effects on the Recording and Reporting of Crime, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 16(2) 2016, 208-223.
Presentations
- Chae Jaynes, Mateus Renno Santos, Kelly Kortright and Deanna N. Devlin, “Age-Graded Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Hours of Work and Crime.” Paper presented to the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia on November 16, 2023.
- Benjamin W. Fisher and Deanna N. Devlin, “Cops & Counselors: How School Staffing Decisions Relate to Exclusionary Discipline Rates and Racial/Ethnic Disparities.” Paper presented to the Celebration of Scholarship, on December 9, 2022.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Mateus R. Santos, “The Association between Police Officers in Schools and Students’ Longer-term Perceptions of Police as Procedurally Just.” Paper presented to the Celebration of Scholarship, on December 10, 2021.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Mateus R. Santos, “The Association Between Police Officers in Schools and Students’ Perceptions of Procedural Justice.” Poster accepted at the American Society of Criminology, on November 17, 2021.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Benjamin W. Fisher, “An Examination of School Resource Officers as an Approach to Reduce Social Disturbances in Schools.” Paper presented to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida* Virtual Format on April 13, 2021.
- Deanna N. Devlin and Denise Gottfredson, “The Roles of Police Officers in Schools: Effects on the Recording and Reporting of Crime.” Poster presented at the Celebration of Scholarship, on November 5, 2019.
Awards & Honors
- Recipient of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) Annual Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in Social Sciences/Humanities. Dr. Devlin was presented with this award at the CTLT annual conference on February 11, 2022 for her publication entitled "An examination of school resource officers as an approach to reduce social disturbances in schools: Evidence from a national longitudinal study". This article is published in the Journal of School Violence.,.
