Jennifer Lanterman

Summary

Jennifer Lanterman is the Director of the School of Social Research and Justice Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. Her research interests include the institutional and community-based management and treatment of high-risk and high-need offenders, implementation science approaches to expanding evidence-based practices in correctional environments, and restorative justice training and quality assurance. Her work involves action research partnerships with legal system practitioners and behavioral healthcare providers and includes program development, implementation, and evaluation. 

Recent publications

• Lanterman, J. L. (Ed.). (Forthcoming). Reflections on education, accountability, and redemption from a carceral classroom. Gatekeeper Press.
• Lanterman, J. L., & Kras, K. R. (Forthcoming). Measuring success rather than failure: Reevaluating performance standards for community supervision. Perspectives.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2023). Direct from the field: Correctional program evaluation. In T. VanderPyl, Corrections 360: A look at corrections from all angles. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2023, June 6). Potentially criminal: Will AI-assisted risk assessments eliminate bias in criminal justice decisions—or add to it? The Sociological Review Magazine.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2023). The ethics of the COVID-19 pandemic. In M. K. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for researchers. Oxford University Press.
• Jenkins, M., Lambert, E. G., Elechi, O. O., Hall, D., Otu, S., Lanterman, J., & Barrington, C. (2023). Organisational justice and strain-based conflict among Nigerian prison officers. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
• Hogan, N. L., Lambert, E. G., Lanterman, J. L., & Berthelot, E. (2023). Testing the job demands-resources model to explain organizational trust among correctional staff. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
• Elechi, O. O., Lambert, E. G., Otu, S., Hall, D. E., Warner, J. J., Jenkins, M., & Lanterman, J. L. (2023). Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: A test among Nigerian prison officers. Psychology, Crime, and Law.
• Lanterman, J. L., Goodwin, M. J., Bello, M., & Bucy, M. (2022). Using technology to respond to the safety, housing, and programming challenges associated with transgender inmates: Building a research program to study the effectiveness of technology-delivered programming. In E. M. Ahlin, O. Mitchell, & C. Atkin-Plunk (Eds.), Handbook on inequalities in sentencing and corrections among marginalized populations (pp. 185-205). Routledge.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2022). Critical deficiencies in restorative conference facilitator trainings: A multiple-case study. Contemporary Justice Review. 
• Vik, T. A., DeGroot Brown, J., & Lanterman, J. L. (2022). Creating and using Facebook groups for collaborative autoethnography and ethnographic sensemaking [Special issue]. Women’s Studies in Communication. 45(1), 10-25. 
• Lanterman, J. L., & Houk, C. (2022). The new Bedlam: A legal and ethical analysis of commercial mug shot websites. Ethics & Behavior, 32(2), 178-193.
• Lambert, E. G., Elechi, O. O., Baker, D., Jenkins, M., Otu, S., & Lanterman, J. L. (2022). Do the effects of organizational trust on correctional staff job attitudes vary by culture: A preliminary test among Nigerian prison staff. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
• Blithe, S. J., & Lanterman, J. L. (2022). Subcultural variability and protean-identification in gun culture. Culture and Organization. 28(2), 148-166.
• Lambert, E. G., Lanterman, J. L., Elechi, O. O., Otu, S., & Jenkins, M. (2021). Exploring the connection between work-family conflict and job burnout among Nigerian correctional staff. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
• Lambert, E. G., Otu, S., Elechi, O. O., Jenkins, M., & Lanterman, J. L. (2021). Domain spillover and job stress: An exploratory study among Nigerian prison staff. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 
• Lanterman, J. L. (Forthcoming). The ethics of the COVID-19 pandemic. In M. K. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for researchers. Oxford University Press.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2022). Veterans, behavioral health, and justice involvement. In B. H. Bornstein, M. K. Miller, & D. DeMatteo (Eds.), Advances in psychology and law (Vol. 6, pp. 179-214). Springer International Publishing AB. 
• Lanterman, J. L. (2021). Models versus mechanisms: The need to crack the black box of restorative justice. British Journal of Community Justice, 17(1), 60-78.
• Lambert, E. G., Lanterman, J. L., Leone, M., Keena, L. D., Haynes, S. H., & May, D. (2020). Improving correctional staff perceptions of organizational justice. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research. Advance Online Publication.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2020). A multi-state survey of day reporting center models. Criminal Justice Studies, 33(2), 96-112.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2020). Training partner selection and quality assurance in restorative justice for the criminal justice setting. Contemporary Justice Review, 23(4), 544-562.
• Lanterman, J. L., & Houk, C.* (2020). The new Bedlam: A legal and ethical analysis of commercial mug shot websites. Ethics & Behavior.
• Thomas, S. Y.*, & Lanterman, J. L. (2019). A national analysis of shackling laws and policies as they relate to pregnant incarcerated women. Feminist Criminology, 14(2), 263-284. doi:10.1177/1557085117737617
• Lanterman, J. L., & Blithe, S. J. (2019). The benefits, challenges, and disincentives of interdisciplinary collaboration. Commoning Ethnography, 2(1), 149-165. [Special issue: The labours of collaboration].
• Lanterman, J. L. (2019). Restorative justice practices and challenges in the United States. In C. C. Spohn & P. K. Brennan (Eds.), Handbook on sentencing policies and practices in the 21st century (pp. 360-377). Routledge.
• Lanterman, J. L. (2018). Transformative and social justice dimensions of a jail-based college course. Dialogues in Social Justice, 3(1), 46-65.
• Lanterman, J. L., & Blithe, S. J. (2018). Culture, socialization, and firearms violence in the United States. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 7(1), 27-47.
• LeClaire, M. M.*, & Lanterman, J. L. (2017). Aging out of foster care: Examining outcomes through social learning and narratives. Youth Voice Journal.
• Blithe, S. J., & Lanterman, J. L. (2017). Camouflaged collectives: Managing stigma and identity at gun events. Studies in Social Justice, 11(1), 113-135.
• Lanterman, J. L., Boyle, D. J., & Ragusa-Salerno, L. M.* (2014). Sex offender risk assessment, sources of variation, and the implications of misuse. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 41(7), 822-843.
• Veysey, B. M., Ostermann, M., & Lanterman, J. L. (2014). The effectiveness of enhanced parole supervision and community services: New Jersey’s Serious and Violent Reentry Initiative. The Prison Journal, 94(4), 435-453.
• Boyle, D. J., Ragusa-Salerno, L. M.*, Lanterman, J. L.+, & Marcus, A. F.* (2013). An evaluation of day  reporting centers for parolees: Outcomes of a randomized trial. Criminology & Public Policy, 12(1), 119-143.
• Maskaly, J.*, Donner, C. M.*, Lanterman, J. L, & Jennings, W. J. (2011). On the association between SROs, private security guards, use-of-force capabilities, and violent crime in schools. Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 11(2), 159-176.
• Boyle, D. J., Lanterman, J. L., Pascarella, J., & Cheng, C. C. (2010). The impact of Newark’s Operation Ceasefire on trauma center gunshot wound admissions. Justice Research and Policy, 12(2), 105-123.

Recent awards

• 2024 Western Society of Criminology June Morrison-Tom Gitchoff Founders Award 
• 2023 American Society of Criminology, Division of Corrections and Sentencing Distinguished Service Award 
• 2022 College of Liberal Arts Dean's Award for Research
• 2021 Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award, American Society of Criminology, Division of Corrections and Sentencing
• 2018 Fulbright Scholarship to Sweden

Journal Editorships

• Editor, Crimonology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society

Public service

• Member, Nevada Sentencing Commission
• Secretary, Ridge House Board of Directors
• Member, Federal Correctional Institution-Herlong Community Relations Board

Education

• Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, 2007
• M.A., Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, 2002
• B.S., Administration of Justice and Political Science, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001