CJ Faculty Make List of Top Female Scholars

Dr. Leana Bouffard

Two faculty members at Sam Houston State University and an alumna were named among the 20 most prolific female scholars in Criminal Justice and Criminology in an article published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Drs. Leana Bouffard and Gaylene Armstrong of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology ranked 12 and 17 respectively on the number of sole or lead-authored articles published in the discipline’s top eight peer-reviewed journals between 2000 and 2010. The top journals in the discipline include Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminology, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and Justice Quarterly.

Dr. Gaylene Armstrong

SHSU Ph.D. Graduate Leanne Fiftal Alarid also ranked 28th on the list with three articles.

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