Elizabeth Panuccio

Elizabeth Panuccio

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Associate Dean of Becton College of Liberal Arts and Education
Department of Social Sciences, History, and Criminal Justice

Contact Information

Courses

• Advanced Criminological Theory
• Corrections
• Rehabilitation and Reentry Strategies
• Working with Children and Families

Research

• Developmental/life-course criminology
• Emerging adulthood Families in the criminal justice system
• Mass incarceration and collateral consequences
• Prisoner reentry
• Qualitative methods

Education

• BA, Drew University
• MA, Fordham University
• MA, PhD, Rutgers University-Newark

Academic Profile

Dr. Panuccio is a Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and the Associate Dean of Becton College of Liberal Arts and Education for FDU. Dr. Panuccio earned a doctorate in criminal justice from Rutgers University-Newark. Prior to that, she earned an MA in criminal justice from Rutgers-Newark, an MA in sociology from Fordham University, and a BA in sociology from Drew University. She has worked as a research associate on criminal justice program evaluations and community research projects in partnership with both non-profits and criminal justice agencies. Her research interests are mass incarceration, prisoner reentry, families in the criminal justice system, emerging adulthood, life-course criminology, and qualitative methods. Her work has been published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Race and Justice, and the Wrongful Conviction Law Review. She is currently working on a study about the reentry experiences of individuals who were wrongfully convicted.