Jennifer Lanterman

Director, School of Social Research and Justice Studies; Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Phone: (775) 784-6151
Email: jlanterman@unr.edu
Building: AB
Room: 607
Mailstop: 0214

Summary

Jennifer Lanterman is 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 and restorative justice training and quality assurance. Her work involves action research partnerships and includes program development, implementation, and evaluation.

Recent publications

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

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

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