Title:	Assistant Professor
	Office:	Lewis Tower 925, WTC
	Phone:	312.915.7539
	E-mail:	gescobar1@luc.edu

Personal Information

Gipsy Escobar is a candidate to a doctorate degree in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York (John Jay College of Criminal Justice / The Graduate Center). Before coming to Loyola, she taught as an adjunct for the Sociology, Psychology, and Government departments at John Jay College (2005-2008). She also worked as a researcher for the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College (2005-2009), where she conducted evaluations of programs implemented by criminal justice agencies in different jurisdictions including New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. In addition, she has conducted research on collective violence, gangs, and social disorganization in Colombia.

Recent publications include White, M.D. & G. Escobar (2008). “Making Good Cops in the 21st Century: Emerging Issues for the Effective Recruitment, Selection and Training of Police in the United States and Abroad.” International Review of Law, Computing and Technology 22(1/2):119-134; and Daza, A., D.C. Brotherton, G. Escobar & M. Flynn (2008). “Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto.” In Flynn, M. & Brotherton, D.C. (eds.) Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millenium. New York: Columbia University Press, p.p. 133-146. She has also served as a peer reviewer for Police Quarterly and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Her research interests include the study of social disorganization and crime in urban settings in Latin America, collective efficacy, social capital, violent crime, collective violence, quantitative methods, and evaluation research.