Christine L. Gardiner, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice
In The News
- Cal Matter Op Ed (3/26/2021)
- CSUF: Titans of Academia: Why I Teach (2/13/2020)
- CSUF: Temperature Rising (chs 3 and 5) (7/2020)
- CSUF: Policing expert’s studies show bill to change age, education for California cops has merit (12/21/2020)
- KPCC: Air Talk with Larry Mantle (12/14/2020)
- LAist: Should you have to be over 25 to become a police officer? (12/14/2020)
- Vice: Being a cop could soon require a 4-year college degree in California (12/10/2020)
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Can higher education help fix America’s policing problem? (7/1/2020)
- OC Register: CSUF professors, leaders, share perspectives on George Floyd protests, police brutality (6/11/2020)
- Wall Street Journal: Community college to take hard look at how they teach aspiring cops (6/10/2020)
- So. Cal. Public Radio: LAPD will make body camera videos public under new policy (3/20/2018)
- USD: Police education study:35.1% of chief’s have master’s degree
- @Policing News: New study examines higher education in policing (10/23/2017)
Phone: (657) 278 - 3608
Email: cgardiner@fullerton.edu
Office: GH 530
Office Hours:
T/TH 10:00-11:15AM
W 10:00-11:15AM VIA ZOOM (link on canvas)
Degrees
- 2008, Ph.D, University of California, Irvine
- 1995, M.Phil., Cambridge University (England)
- 1988, B.A, University of California, Irvine
Research Areas
- Policing (general)
- Higher education and policing
- Police body worn cameras
- Criminal Justice Policy
- Pedagogy
Courses Regularly Taught
- CRJU 315 – Policing
- CRJU 405 – Criminal Justice Policy
- CRJU 415 – Policing the City (award-winning service learning course)
- CRJU 491 – Applied Policy Research
- CRJU 325 – Juvenile Delinquency
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Articles
- Kopp & Gardiner (2020). “Public support for body-worn cameras: The need for inclusion of more comprehensive measures of public concerns.” Criminal Justice Studies. Doi 10.1080/1478601X.2020.1868455
- Gardiner, C. (2019). “College Cops Around the Nation: A 30-year update on the state of higher education in policing” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Doi: 10.1093/police/paz029/5506089
- Gardiner, C. & Smith, T. (2017) “Some pedagogical benefits of learning communities: Does group composition matter?” Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Doi 10.1080/10511253
- Gardiner, C. (2015). College Cops: A study of education and policing in California. Policing: An International Journal of Policing Strategies and Management, 38, 44:648-663.
Recent Books
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Gardiner, C. & Spiropoulos, G. (2018). California’s Criminal Justice System, 3rd Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
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Gardiner, C., & Hickman, M. (2017). Policing for the 21st Century: Realizing the vision of police in a free society. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishing
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Mallicoat, S. & Gardiner, C. (2014). Criminal Justice Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.