OUR FACULTY
Faculty for the university’s Justice Management Program come from universities and law schools across the nation. Many faculty members are prominent researchers and practitioners with doctoral degrees who share their real-world knowledge and professional insights with students.
ROBERT BAYER, Ph.D is an adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno and Chair of the Justice Management Degree Program's Advisory Committee. He received his baccalaureate degree in liberal arts from The University of New York, College at Oswego in 1971. He earned his M.A. in English from Oswego in 1972 and his Masters of Public Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1990. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004.
He has worked in prison, parole, and probation for 26 years and served as the Director of the Nevada Department of Prisons from 1/1995-7/2000. He was also a Peace Officer Standards and Training commissioner for over 5 years and has an extensive training and education background in adult corrections. Currently he is active as an associate member of the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) as well as an active member of the American Correctional Association (ACA) serving on the Legal Affairs Committee for over ten years. He has published numerous articles and consults in adult criminal justice.
Courses Taught:
JM 601 - Introduction to Justice Management
JM 730 - Privatization in Justice Management
E-mail: renobayer@aol.com
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HENRY R. CELLINI, Ph.D., LPCC. is the president of The Training and Research Institute, Inc., is a researcher, consultant and author specializing in mental health, drug abuse and violence issues. Dr. Cellini has worked with criminal justice clients since 1973 when he completed an internship at a therapeutic community program in Illinois. Over the last 34 years, Dr. Cellini has worked with both juvenile delinquents and adult offenders with a primary focus on substance abuse, violence and deviant sexual behaviors.
Dr. Cellini founded the Training and Research Institute, Inc. (TRI), in 1988. TRI's expertise includes work on a wide variety of projects in the fields of criminal justice, mental health, and education, such as: developing screening and assessment instruments and instructional materials; providing staff and client training; administering client surveys; conducting client groups in the areas of vocational rehabilitation, mental health, and substance abuse; and conducting and documenting computerized literature reviews to ensure adherence to "best practices" methods.
Courses Taught:
JM 734 - Mental Health Issues in Justice Management
JM 791 - Sp Top: Juvenile Sex Offenders
E-mail: unr-student@trainingandresearch.com
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CECELIA CHANG, J.D. is an attorney with a law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1985) and a legal background in criminal prosecution and civil litigation. Since 1997, she has served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, and is the director for the Honolulu Community Prosecution Program. In this capacity, she plans and implements community prosecution strategies to improve the quality of life in Honolulu. She works at the grassroots with community stakeholders to solve chronic crime problems that adversely affect neighborhood safety and livability.
She also leads the local prosecution component for Honolulu Weed and Seed, a collaborative strategy administered by the United States Department of Justice. She created procedures for the prosecution of adult and juvenile offenders in Honolulu’s Weed and Seed sites and coordinated with the State of Hawaii Judiciary to establish a dedicated Weed and Seed Court; these broad systemic changes significantly reduced crime in the targeted areas. Honolulu Weed and Seed has been recognized by the United States Department of Justice for effective collaboration.
Courses Taught:
JM 792 - Sp Top: Community Prosecution
E-mail:ChangC054@hawaii.rr.com
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VERONICA DAHIR, Ph.D. is the Interim Director for the Senator Alan Bible Center for Applied Research (SABCAR). Her interests include the social psychological ramifications of both the justice system and other organizations (e.g., business). More specifically, jury and judicial decision making; the use of visual stimuli (computer-generated demonstrative evidence) to produce attitude change; the intersection between science and the law; evaluation of justice systems; pre-trial publicity issues; research related to technology and the Internet; racial and ethnic issues; the construct of motivation; and role theory.
Courses Taught:
JM 602 - Methods of Program Research, Design, and Evaluation
JS 718 - Scientific Research Methods for Judges
E-mail: roni@unr.nevada.edu
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YANI DICKENS, Ph.D. obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2007. He has previously taught courses in research methods for the social sciences at UNLV, abnormal psychology at UNLV, and introductory psychology at both UNR and UNLV. He has taught Research Methods in Justice Management since the Fall 2007.
Courses Taught:
JM 600 - Foundations of Research Methods
JM 602 - Methods of Program Research, Design, and Evaluation
E-mail: ydickens@unr.edu
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JUDGE STEPHANIE DOMITROVICH, Ph.D, J.D. -
Under Development
Courses Taught:
JM 601 - Introduction to Justice Management
JM 708 - Legal and Administrative Report Writing
E-mail: sdomitrovich@eriecountygov.org
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae
JUDGE W. DENNIS DUGGAN, J.D. has been Family Court Judge since 1994. He is a Trustee of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and Past President of the New York State Family Court Judges Association. He is also a member and past director of the American Judges Association and the American Judicature Society. Judge Duggan is also a founding Board Member of the New York Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and its current President.
Within the New York State Judiciary he serves on the Judicial Institute Committee, the Family Court Advisory and Rules Committee and the Family Law Curriculum Development Committee. Judge Duggan is on the faculty of the National Judicial college and the New York State Judicial Institute. He is a frequent lecturer at International, National and State judicial and legal programs. He also writes a monthly column for the Bar Association Newsletter on topical issues on the History of the Law. Judge Duggan was born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in Salamanca, New York and is a former journeyman structural Ironworker.
Courses Taught:
JM 705 - Juvenile and Family Law and Procedure
E-mail: wduggan@courts.state.ny.us
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae
KEN GIBSON, M.S. is the Technical Manager and Instructional Designer of the Master of Justice Management Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. His credentials include a M.S. in Education from the University of Nevada, Reno. Ken has 10+ years experience in online course management, web-design and digital media production.
Courses Taught:
JM Program Technical Coordinator
E-Mail: kgibson@unr.edu
GEORGE GROVER, J.D. educational background includes a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (1985), and a B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (1967). He was a staff attorney for the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City, Nevada, from 1985 - 1989. He has worked as an attorney for several years with the Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers, doing worker's compensation cases. He currently is an attorney in private practice in Carson City, Nevada, handling primarily personal injury and worker's compensation cases. He has taught a variety of law classes at the college level at Morrison University in Reno, Nevada.
Courses Taught:
JM 703 - Judicial Process I (Civil law and Procedure)
JM 704 - Judicial Process II (Criminal law & procedure)
E-mail: ggcarsoncity@aol.com
DAVID HUMKE, J.D., MSW currently serves as the Washoe County Commissioner for District 2 (south Washoe County). During his first year on the Commission in 2003, Humke served as the Commission Chairman.
From 1983 to 2002 he served the 26th Assembly District as a Republican. Two times he was named the Assistant Minority Floor Leader in 1991 and in 1999; he chaired the Judiciary Committee in 1995, and chaired the Economic Development and Small Business Committee in 1985. Humke served on the Ways & Means Committee and served on the Interim Finance Committee for several legislative sessions. He also served on the Legislative Commission and chaired that Commission’s Regulations Subcommittee in 2001-2.
Humke is a Governor’s appointee to the Nevada Commission on Aging, the Nevada Juvenile Justice Commission and the Nevada Indigent Accident Fund. In Washoe County Humke serves on the Regional Transportation Commission (currently Vice Chair), District Board of Health, Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, Flood Control Coordinating Project, Washoe County School District Oversight Committee and the Washoe County Criminal Justice Advisory Committee.
Courses Taught:
JM 706 - Applied Ethics in Justice Management
JM 721 - Victim's Issues, Restitution, and Restorative Justice
JM 723 - Early Intervention and Crime Prevention Programs
E-mail: dehumke@gmail.com
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae
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MICHAEL LINDSEY, J.D., Ph.D. is a lawyer and clinical psychologist. He is the founder of Nestor Consultants, Inc. (1986), which provides management, organizational, diversity, juvenile and criminal justice consultation. In addition to being a fellow at the University of Houston Law School Center for Children Law and Policy. Dr Lindsey is an adjunct professor in the department of psychology at Southern Methodist University and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Courses Taught:
JM 725 - Race and Gender in Juvenile Justice
E-mail: mllind@swbell.net
MONICA MILLER, J.D., Ph.D.is an Associate Professor with a split appointment between the Criminal Justice Department and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology. She is also an adjunct faculty at the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies. She received her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004.
Her interests include the investigation of factors that influence victim decision-making (e.g., whether to report a crime), how counterfactual thinking affects jury and victim decision-making, the evolving content of video games (e.g., violence and role of women), how the criminal law has been used to regulate behaviors related to pregnancy and procreation, and jury decision-making in criminal and medical malpractice cases.
Courses Taught:
JM 790 - Sp Top: Law and Psychology
E-mail: mkmiller@unr.edu
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DOROTHY NASH HOLMES, J.D has been an attorney for 31 years, more than half that time working as a prosecutor or criminal justice administrator. She has prosecuted narcotics traffickers and smugglers in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the federal government, in the San Francisco and Reno offices of the United States Attorney.
In the Special Prosecutions Unit of the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, she prosecuted inmate crime and defended death sentences in appellate post-conviction litigation. From there, she went to the Nevada Department of Corrections where she designed and created the Correctional Programs Division. She was appointed Deputy Director and ran that division, being responsible for all the psychological and substance abuse treatment, education, job training, religious and re-entry services for more than 13,000 prisoners in 21 facilities statewide.
Dorothy currently practices civil law with Fahrendorf, Viloria, Oliphant & Oster, L.L.P. in Reno, NV and serves as a Special Prosecutor for Nevada’s Judicial Discipline Commission, investigating ethics and misconduct violations by members of the judiciary in Nevada.
Courses Taught:
JM 735 - Special Topics in Homeland Security: Threat Groups
JM 736 - Special Topics in Homeland Security: Impact on Jurisprudence
E-mail: dnhlaw@charter.net
MICHAEL E. NOYES, Ph.D is currently employed as the Director of the Community Supervision and Corrections Department (Adult Probation)in Dallas, Texas. The department has a staff of over 600 people and provides services to 59,000 probation clients within the County of Dallas, Texas.
Prior to his position in Texas, he was employed by the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts as a Deputy District Court Administrator for the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Pennsylvania. As a Deputy District Court Administrator, he served as the Director of Community Corrections for Butler County, Pennsylvania. His primary responsibility was the daily administration of both the Butler County Adult Probation Department and the Butler County Juvenile Court Services Department.
Prior to his appointment as Director of Community Corrections, he also served as the Director of the Department of Juvenile Court Services for Butler County, PA, as Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for the Court of Common Pleas of Venango County, PA and as an administrator in numerous Pennsylvania residential service programs for delinquent youths.
It also been his privilege to serve as a founding member and former Chair of the Butler County Criminal Justice Advisory Board and as a founding member of the Dallas County (TX) Community Justice Advisory Board.
Courses Taught:
JM 601 - Introduction to Justice Management
E-mail: patotxnoyes@hotmail.com
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae
JUDI PAPAROZZI, J.D., M. Ed. began working in corrections in 1972; over the next 14 years, she worked in prisons in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey where she worked for the State Parole Board. After graduating from law school, she became an assistant county prosecutor specializing in drug prosecutions, and she then went into private practice as a criminal defense attorney. She was also a municipal prosecutor and public defender for 10 years before moving to North Carolina. Since 1976, she has taught courses in criminal justice, victimology, organized crime, restorative justice, probation and parole, corrections, criminal procedure, criminal law, law & society, criminal conduct, correctional treatment, Italian, ESL, and college reading and writing skills.
Courses Taught:
JM 732 - History and Development of Parole and Probation
E-mail: jpaparozzi@yahoo.com
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MARIO PAPAROZZI, Ph.D. began his career in criminal justice in 1972. From 1972 to 1998, he worked at the New Jersey Department of Corrections. During that time he worked his way up the career ladder from parole officer trainee through a variety of supervisory and management titles including Assistant Commissioner and Deputy Interstate Compact Administrator. Dr. Paparozzi culminated his practitioner career serving as Chairman of The New Jersey State Parole Board.
In 1998, Dr Paparozzi accepted a faculty appointment at The College of New Jersey in their Department of Law and Justice. At The College of New Jersey, Dr. Paparozzi also served as the Associate Director of The Criminal Justice Center - the research and technical assistance arm of the Department of Law and Justice. Dr. Paparozzi left The College of New Jersey to accept an appointment at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Paparozzi is currently Department Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at The University of North Carolina, Pembroke.
Courses Taught:
JM 732 - History and Development of Parole and Probation
E-mail: mario@mariopaparozzi.com
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JAMES RICHARDSON, Ph.D. received his BA in Sociology from Texas Tech University in 1965, MA in Sociology (Literature minor) from Texas Tech University in 1966, Ph.D. in Sociology (Computer Science minor) from Washington State University in 1968, and J.D. from Old College, Nevada School of Law in 1986. He has been an active teacher for 30 years, with most of the time being spent at the University of Nevada, Reno where he is currently Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies. He directs the Master of Judicial Studies Degree Program, which has nearly 100 trial judges working on degrees, and some 75 graduates. He is on the faculty for the large Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Doctoral Program, and also teaches in the undergraduate and masters programs in Sociology.
Courses Taught:
JM Program Director
E-mail: jtr@unr.edu
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JANE L. ROBINSON, J.D., MBA is the Assistant Program Director of the Master of Justice Management Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her credentials include a J. D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California, 1987, an MBA from Morrison University, Reno, Nevada, 2002, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology, University of Hawaii - Hilo College, 1978. She practiced civil law in the State of Hawaii managing a private law corporation.
In 1997, she relocated to Reno, Nevada, where she has taught law, management, philosophy and other courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She developed and taught a special course in critical thinking from a legal perspective for the Philosophy department at the University of Nevada. Reno. She became involved with the development of the Master of Justice Management program from the outset, first as a member of the advisory committee, and then as the coordinator charged with developing the curriculum for the program. Recently, she co-authored Justice System Degree Programs at the University of Nevada, Reno, published in The Justice System Journal, Volume 26, Number 2, 2005.
Courses Taught:
JM Program Assistant-Director
E-mail: justmgmt@unr.nevada.edu
CHRISTOPHER A. SIMON, Ph.D is Professor of Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno. He received baccalaureate degrees in History and Political Science from Oregon State University in 1991. He earned his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Political Science from Washington State University. His most recent published research focuses on renewable energy policy, sustainability and governance, military sociology, education policy, and land use policy.
He is the author of State and Local Government: Sustainable Communities of the 21st Century (with Nicholas Lovrich and Brent Steel, Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes, 2nd Edition (Longman, 2010); Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); To Run a School: Administrative Organization and Learning (Praeger, 2001; in Mandarin, China Light Industry Press, 2005). He has published in Administration & Society, American Review of Public Administration, Armed Forces & Society, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (proceedings), Land Use Policy Journal, Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration Review, and Social Science Quarterly. Simon teaches courses in the following subject areas: renewable energy policy, public policy, public administration theory, public personnel administration, public budgeting theory, policy evaluation, organization theory, research methods, and American politics.
Courses Taught:
JM 601 - Introduction to Justice Management
JM 690(e) - Managing Human Resources
E-mail: casimon@unr.nevada.edu
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Thomas J. Tiefenwerth, Ph.D. has undergraduate degrees in Administration of
Justice and Police Science from Los Angeles City College and New York
Institute of Technology respectively. He holds master degrees in Criminal
Justice, Forensic Psychology, and Public Administration with an emphasis
in criminal justice policy from Long Island University-C.W. Post Center,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the University of Texas at Tyler
respectively. His doctoral degree is in Administration of Justice from the
University of Southern Mississippi.
He holds a number of professional licenses and certifications that are relevant to his work in the in criminal justice and forensic mental health practice, including: Texas State Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Psychologist, Nationally Certified Criminal Justice Addiction Specialist, Certified Criminal Justice Professional, and Nationally Certified Correctional Health Professional. He has more than 30 years of criminal justice and corrections experience and is a retired psychologist and psychotherapist from the Texas prison system with more than 20 years of clinical-forensic mental health experience.
Courses Taught:
JM 792 - Sp Top: Psychology of Criminal Behavior
JM 792 - Sp Top: Substance Abuse in Criminal Justice
E-mail: tjtiefenwerth@aol.com
George S Tsagaris, Ph.D., L.I.S.W-S., M.S. currently serves as the Deputy Chief Probation Officer at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court’s Probation Department. He is responsible for Probation Supervision for which he currently supervises several Probation Managers including the Manager of Day Reporting and Community Services/Restitution. He has supervised Female Gender-Specific Specialists. He is responsible for the Field Offices in Probation Supervision, at which time there are approximately 1,600 youth on probation.
Dr. Tsagaris has 30 + years of experience in juvenile justice including experience as a probation officer, Court Diversion social worker, and trainer. He has been actively involved in the design, development and implementation of different juvenile justice programs, including staff development and training. He chairs the social work licensure committee at the Court.
Courses Taught:
JM 690(b) - Supervision & Staff Development
JM 780 - Independent Study
JM 781 - Internship
E-mail: cjgst@cuyahogacounty.us
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae
