Christine Gardiner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice

Teaching interests: Juvenile Delinquency, criminal justice system capacity, theories of crime, crime prevention, research methods

Research interests: Crime policy, sentencing and corrections, juvenile delinquency

Brief biography:I received my PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from University of California, Irvine in 2008.  My fields of expertise include crime policy, criminal justice system constraints, juvenile delinquency, policing, and research methods.  My doctoral research, which was funded by a National Institute of Justice Dissertation Fellowship, focused on the impact of California’s Proposition 36 on the case processing and sentencing of drug offenders in Orange County.  Proposition 36, also known the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, prescribed drug treatment in lieu of incarceration for non-violent drug offenders.
            I received my BAs in Social Ecology and Economics from University of California, Irvine in 1993.  During my undergraduate studies I spent a year studying at Lancaster University in Northwest England.  This experience led me to pursue my M.Phil. in Criminology at Cambridge University (England), which I earned in 1995.  My master’s thesis examined Santa Ana Police Department’s Community Oriented Policing Philosophy.  If you are interested in learning more about the M.Phil at Cambridge, I encourages you to come talk me.
            In my prior (pre-professor) life, I have been a police explorer for Foster City Police Department (in the San Francisco Bay Area), a dispatcher for Irvine Police Department, a crime analyst for Riverside Sheriff’s Department, and an intern-probation officer for Los Angeles County Probation Department. 

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