JISUN CHOI

jchoi@jjay.cuny.edu • (267) 467-3097

Doctoral Student of Criminal Justice Ph.D. Program

Department of Criminal Justice

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

The City University of New York, Graduate Center

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA / 2011.09-2012.05

M.S. in Criminology

Course Highlights: Academic and Applied Criminology; Research Methods/Crime Analysis Project; Criminal Law; Evidence-Based Crime Prevention/Sentencing; Quantitative Methods; Seminars.

Dissertation: Testing Social Disorganization Theory with Assessing the Geography of Crime in Washington D.C.

Honors Scholarship Fall 2011/Spring 2012

 

Kangwon National University

Chuncheon, S.Korea

B.A.in Sociology

2008.03-2011.02

Course Highlights: Studies of Modern Society; History of Social Thought; Contemporary Sociological Theories; Methodology of Social Science; Ideology and Domination; Contemporary Society and Social Problems.

Dissertation: Applications of Life-Course Theory with Korean Serial Killers

 

B.S.inEnergy Resource Engineering

2004.03-2011.02

Course Highlights: Geological Engineering and Laboratory Applications; Underground Investigation; Tunnel Design.

Dissertation: Actual Field Data Geo Tomography Analysis

 

Scholarship for Commendation in English Spring 2010

Honors Scholarship Fall 2004/Fall 2005/Spring 2006

 

University of Utah

2010 Spring Semester Dean’s List

Salt Lake City, UT / 2010.01-2010.05

Study Abroad Foundation (SAF) Recommended Exchange Student

Course Highlights: Criminology; Women and Crime; Society & Criminal Minds; Terrorism, Violence, and Aggression.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Sex Offender Profiling in South Korea Compare to the United States

- Media, Politics, and Crime

- Criminal Justice History in South Korea

- Utilization of Computer Software in Criminal Justice Research and System

- Mixed Method — Quantitative and Qualitative

 

AFFILIATIONS / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Membership

- American Society of Criminology / 2012.01-presnet

- Academy of Criminal Justice Science / 2012.01-present

- Korean Society of Criminology in America / 2011.11-present

Editor, The Korean Criminologist / 2012. 01-present

 

SKILLS

Computer Skills

- Competent in SAS; SPSS; ArcGIS; Adobe Photoshop

- Microsoft Office Specialist Official Certificate Master; Excel Expert; Word Expert; Power Point; Access

Language Skills: Korean (native), English (fluent)

 

- References available upon request -

 Edited on October 2012