Faculty and Staff

Interim Chair, Department of Criminal Justice

Dr. Kurt L. Kraus
Professor, Counseling and College Student Personnel

Phone: (717) 477-1558 or (717) 477-1603

Email:  klkrau@ship.edu
Fax: (717) 477-4087
Shippen Hall Room 113 and 323

Tom Austin, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1770
Email: tlaust@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 305

Interests and Teaching:  program planning, implementation and evaluation; research, statistics and quantitative methods; delinquency, security and crime prevention.  Authored/co-authored over 25 peer reviewed research articles. 

Former Research Director, Pennsylvania's Independent Living Project.

Todd E. Bricker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Forensic Science Option Coordinator

Phone: (717) 477-1142
Email: tebric@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 311

Areas of Interest:  Criminal Investigation, forensic science, police policy, organizational change, and field research.  Research areas:  Policy policy and practice, public perceptions of police, evidence collection and processing, and program evaluation.

Former Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officer and Tri-County Narcotics Detective.

Donna C. Hale, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1608
Email: dchale@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 317

Areas of Interest: Leadership and supervision, women's studies, mass media, and crime and justice.  Research areas:  Women in Criminal Justice issues and training of police.

Past President of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) 1996-97.

James L. Jengeleski, Ed.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1110
Email: jljeng@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 309

Web address:  http://webspace.ship.edu/jljeng/

Teaching face-to-face and online courses. Teaching areas: Homeland security and terrorism, corrections, juvenile justice,  community-based corrections; jails, comparative criminal justice systems, drugs, alcohol and crime, gangs, organized crime and organizing justice related internships. Research interests: program review and evaluation.

Member:  Cornell Abraxas Community Advisory Board and Franklin County Jail Industries Advisory Board.

Stephanie A. Jirard, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1799
Email: sajira@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 307

A former U.S. Navy JAG Corps Officer, Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Missouri State Public Defender in the Capital Litigation Unit. 

Research interests include constitutional law and capital punishment.

John H. Lemmon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1599
Email: jhlemm@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 315

Areas of Interest:  Juvenile delinquency, child maltreatment, and family life.  Research Interests:  causes and correlates of deviancy, clinical and casework practice, and community organization.

Former consultant for the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges' Commission. 

E. Britt Patterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1763
Email: ebpatt@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 313

Areas of Interest:  Juvenile justice, research and quantitative methods; race, gender and crime; criminology and delinquency theories.  Research Interests:  Crime causation, racial impact on crime, criminal justice system's response to crime.

Co-Editor of Race and Criminal Justice and Justice with Prejudice.

Laura A. Patterson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1355
Email: lapatt@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 303

Areas of Interest:  Criminology and criminal justice.  Research interests:  Juvenile delinquency and justice, victimology, white collar crime, theories of crime and deviance, community and institutional corrections and quantitative research methods.

Melissa L. Ricketts, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1550
Email: mlricketts@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 319

Areas of Interest:  Victimology, Criminological theory testing, and advanced quantitative methods.  Research Interests: Fear of crime, school violence, cybercrime, and prescription drug abuse.

2005 Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Penny Stum
Clerk Typist 2, Department of Criminal Justice

Phone: (717) 477-1558
FAX: (717) 477-4087
Email: plstum@ship.edu
Shippen Hall Room 321

Interests:  Harley-Davidsons, Muscle Cars, Quarter-Mile drag racing, hunting, fishing, and camping.  Volunteers at the Shippensburg Fair, Produce Building; and as a model for the Lymphoma/Leukemia Society's Summer Solstice held in Hershey, PA.