| Dana
Peterson
Assistant
Professor
Ph.D. (2002) University of Nebraska at
Omaha
Specializations:
Youth
Gangs/Prevention and Intervention; Delinquency
and Violence; Juvenile Justice/Treatment;
Sex and Gender Issues in Gangs, Delinquency,
and Treatment
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Dana
Peterson teaches and conducts research
in the areas of youth violence, youth
gangs and gang prevention, delinquency
treatment, and sex/gender issues in delinquency
and gang involvement. She is an Investigator
on the “Process and Outcome Evaluation
of G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education
and Training),” a multi-site longitudinal
evaluation of a school-based gang prevention
program. The evaluation is funded by the
National Institute of Justice and directed
by Professor Finn Esbensen of the University
of Missouri-St. Louis. She is also a Co-Principal
Investigator, with Professor David Duffee,
on SOAR (Service Outcomes Action Research).
This project is a long-term research-practice
partnership that is developing and implementing
evidence-based practice in two agencies
that provide residential and community-based
treatment to youth and their families.
The goal of SOAR is to improve services
to youth and families and enhance outcome
achievement by providing continual, periodic
feedback of data on client characteristics,
specific treatment services, and outcomes.
Professor Peterson serves on the National
Youth Gang Advisory Board of the Boys
and Girls Clubs of America, and she is
an active member in the Eurogang Program,
an international research network that
is developing comparative studies of youth
gangs in the U.S., Europe, and beyond.
Professor
Peterson is particularly interested in
the debate over whether gender-specific
or gender-neutral theories of and responses
to delinquency and youth gangs are necessary,
as well as in the ways that gender structures
delinquency and gang involvement. Her
publications include co-authored articles
in Criminology, Criminology
& Public Policy, Evaluation
Review, Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly,
and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice,
and chapters in American Youth Gangs
at the Millennium (F.-A. Esbensen,
L.K. Gaines, and S. G. Tibbetts, Eds.),
Gangs in America , 3rd Ed . (C.R.
Huff, ed.), The Eurogang Paradox
(M.W. Klein, H.-J. Kerner, C.L. Maxson,
and E.G.M. Weitekamp, eds.), and Responding
to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
(W.L. Reed and S.H. Decker, eds.). She
is co-editor (with Frank van Gemert and
Inger-Lise Lien) of a forthcoming book
entitled Street Gangs, Migration,
and Ethnicity (Willan Publishing)
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