Professor
Office: Wilson Hall, Room 110
Office Phone: 724-357-5610
Email: jroberts@iup.edu
Degrees/Schools
PhD Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2000
MA Criminal Justice, Indiana University, 1996
BA Criminal Justice, University of South Dakota, 1993
Areas of Interest
Violence, Methodology, Survey Methods
Biography
Jennifer Roberts joined the IUP faculty in 2000. Since that time, she has served as the doctoral coordinator (six years) and as the off-campus master's coordinator (five years). She currently serves as the IUP chair of the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Rights.
Roberts' current research interests focus on survey methods with criminal justice populations. Her blind peer-reviewed work has appeared in publications such as Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Crime and Justice, Victims & Offenders, Journal of Child & Family Studies, and Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice.