Experts Guide

Fox is a former FBI agent and Co-Director of the Center for Justice Research & Policy. Her research focuses on the identification of psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior and prolific offending, experimental field research and evidence-based policing and crime prevention strategies.

Howell is an expert in cybercriminal behavior and motivation, darknet markets and stolen data supply chains, digital forensics and incident response, AI-driven threat intelligence systems, cyber-enabled financial fraud and account takeovers and cybersecurity strategy for critical infrastructure.

Burruss studies policing, homeland security and victimization in cyberspace. His research examines the structure and function of criminal justice agencies and the evolving landscape of cybercrime. He studies the causes and consequences of online offending and victimization, and how law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals respond to digital threats. He is affiliated with Cyber Florida, the state’s center for cybersecurity, and serves as a Faculty Fellow with both the Global and National Security Institute and Rapid7. He is the founding director of CIBR Lab — the Cybercrime Interdisciplinary Behavioral Research Laboratory — which trains students in research on cybercrime and cybersecurity.

Reid is an expert in human trafficking, sexual violence and child maltreatment. She is director of the USF Human Trafficking Risk to Resilience Research Lab.

Hall's research focuses on understanding how systems of power, oppression and trauma interact within the criminal justice system, and how these dynamics contribute to crime and societal harm. She is particularly focused on how trauma influences criminal behavior, how interactions with the criminal justice system affect justice-involved individuals and the ways police and correctional staff respond to trauma.

Boggess' research focuses on communities and crime, race and crime, housing and the geographic distribution of crime.

Santos' research focuses on crime trends in Latin America and Brazil, global homicide decline, and international criminal justice and crime policy and their effects. He is a frequent consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, developing comparative data and analysis.

Dembo's research focuses on juvenile justice, youth drug use, delinquency, HIV/STD/STI issues, mental health issues and youth trauma.

Deryol is an expert in computer forensics whose research focuses on victimization, environmental criminology and crime prevention at both micro and macro levels.

Stone's research interests include family violence, juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice, youth development, women and crime, human trafficking, public policy and program evaluation.

Wagers is a former law enforcement officer and director of the BRIGHT (Bridging Information and Resource Gaps in Human Trafficking project through the USF Trafficking in Persons Lab. She can discuss human trafficking and domestic violence.

O's research focuses on victimology, school crime, crime prevention, crime hot spot forecasting and the relationship between land use and crime. She also can discuss cyber delinquency, and the links between marijuana dispensaries and adult crime and youth offending.

Lee's current research examines place management theory, police effectiveness, spatio-temporal patterns of crime hot spots, crime hot spot forecasting, measures of crime concentration and machine learning models for recidivism forecasting. In 2017, he received a national award from the National Institute of Justice as winner of the Real-Time Crime Forecasting Challenge.