Global Perspectives on Crime Prevention and Community Resilience

Diana Scharff Peterson, PhD, has nearly 20 years of experience in higher education teaching in the areas of research methods; comparative criminal justice systems; race, gender, class, and crime; statistics; criminology; sociology; and drugs and behavior at seven different institutions of higher education.Dr. Petersonhas been the chairperson of three different criminal justice programs over the past 15 years and has published in the areas of criminal justice, social work, higher education, sociology, business, and management. Her research interests include issues in policing (training and education) and community policing, assessment and leadership in higher education, family violence, and evaluation research and program development.She is a Professor of Criminology and Graduate Program Director at the University of Texas, Permian Basin. Currently, she has taken temporary leave from the University of Texas to attend graduate school at Arizona State University, concentrating on the disciplines of Public Affairs (Emergency Management) and Social Justice and Human Rights. She will graduate in May 2018.Shehas publishedover 30 articles in areas of criminal justice, sociology, social work, business management, and higher education and is the Liaison and Representative for the International Police Executive Symposium (consultative status) for quarterly annual meetings at the United Nations meetings in New York City, Geneva, and Vienna including the Commission on the Status of Women in NewYork, New York.Dr. Petersonchaired and organized the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium entitled Crime Prevention & Community Resilience: Police Role with Victims, Youth, Ethnic Minorities and Other Partners, in Sophia, Bulgaria, July 27-August 1, 2014 (27 countries and 43 presenters).She formerly served as the Managing Editor of Police Practic