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S.E. Costanza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

208-400 Vance Academic Center
Office Phone: (860) 832-3139

Email Address: costanzaste@ccsu.edu                 

Office Hours:
Monday:
12:00-1:50, 4:30-6:00 PM

Weds: 12:00-1:50, 4:30-6:00 PM

Thurs: 3:00-4:45

Fri: 12:00-1:50 PM (by appt.)

 Ph.D, Louisiana State University, Sociology

Research Interests: Policy Analysis, Crime Mapping, Ethnicity


Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Graduate
Juvenile Delinquency
Crime Theory
Research Methods
Race and Crime
Organized Crime
Nature of Crime

Selected Publications and Academic Paper Presentations

Publications:

Costanza, S.E; Helms, Ronald; Ratansi, Shamir, Jr. Kilburn, John C. and Harmon, John. (forthcoming in Policing Quarterly)  "Boom to Bust or Bust to Boom?: Following the Effects of Weed and Seed Zoning in New Britain, Connecticut from 1995 to 2000"

Kilburn Jr, John C.; Costanza, S.E.; Metchik, Eric and Borgeson, Kevin (forthcoming in Security Journal) "Policing Terror Threats and False Positives: Employing a Signal Detection Model to Examine Changes in National and Local Policing Strategy between 2001-2007”                                            

Helms, Ronald and Costanza, S.E. (2009) "Race, Politics and Drug Law Enforcement:  An Analysis of Civil Asset Forfeiture Patterns Across U.S. Counties", Policing and Society, 19 (1), 1-19

Cox, Stephen M., Costanza, Stephen; Revicki, Jesse and Ruffolo, Lyndsay (2009) "An Exploratory Study of the Connecticut Department of Correction’s Halfway House Programs" [technical report commissioned by Connecticut Dept. of Correction]

Kilburn Jr., John C. and Costanza, S.E.  (2009)  “Immigration and Homeland Security” published in Battleground: Immigration (Ed: Judith Ann Warner); Greenwood Publishing, Ca.

Cox, Stephen M., Costanza, Stephen; Ruffolo, Lyndsay and Revicki, Jesse (2009) “A Comparative Analysis of  Special Parole and Split Sentence Probation Sentencing Options” [technical report commissioned by Connecticut Dept. of Correction]

Costanza, S.E.;  Kilburn Jr., John C. and Helms, Ronald (2008) "Chapter 5: Counterterrorism" published in Terrorism in America, (Eds.: Borgeson, Kevin and Valeri, Robin), Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, Mass

Costanza, Stephen and Ruffolo, Lyndsay (2008) "Analysis of the Connecticut Department of Correction Prisoner Reentry Workbook" [technical report commissioned by Connecticut Dept. of Correction]

Cox, Stephen M., Costanza, Stephen, and Ruffolo, Lyndsay (2007). “Final Report of the

Evaluation of the New Britain Police Department’s Weed and Seed Program”.  New Britain, CT:

City of New Britain. [Technical report commissioned by the New Britain Police Department]

Costanza, S.E. (2006) “Umberto Anastasio”, published in Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, Salem Press, Pasadena, Ca

Costanza, S. E and Kilburn Jr., John C., (2005) "Symbolic Security, Moral Panic and Public Sentiment: Toward a Sociology of Counterterrorism", Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries, 1(2): 106-124

Costanza, S. E and Kilburn Jr., John C., (2004) "Circling the Welcome Wagons: Area, Income, Race, and Legal Handgun Concealment" Criminal Justice Review, 29(2): 289-303

Costanza, S.E., Bankston, William B., Shihadeh, Edward, (2001) "Alcohol Availability and Violent Crime Rates: A Spatial Analysis" Journal of Crime & Justice, 24(1): 71-83

Costanza, S.E. (2000) "History of Organized Crime in America", Cliff Bryant (ed.) published in the Encyclopedia of Crime and Deviance, Harcourt-Brace, New York, New York

Academic Paper Presentations

Costanza, S.E.; Cox, S.M.; Kilburn, John C. Jr.; Sazo, Miguel and Revicki, Jesse (2009) “Halfway Houses and Desistance from Criminal Activity: An Exploratory Analysis using Propensity Modeling" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, Mass.

Helms, Ronald and Costanza, S.E. (2009) "Modeling the Politics of Punishment: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis of ‘Law in Action’ in Drug Sentencing" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, Mass.

Costanza, S.E.; Kilburn John C.; Borgeson, Kevin B. and Kelly, Charles Thomas (2009) “Past Victimization and Perceived Danger: Rural and Urban Differences in Gun Ownership Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, La.

Costanza, S.E., Cox, S.M., and Ruffalo, Lyndsay (2008) A Preliminary GIS Evaluation of the Weed and Seed Program in New Britain Connecticut” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio

Costanza, S.E. and Harmon, John (2008) “Weed and Seed Zoning and Local Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation: An Analysis of Contiguous Effects Among Block Collection Units in New Britain (A Research Note)” Presented at the Connecticut State University System Faculty Research Conference, ECSU 

Kilburn, John J. and Costanza, S.E. (2007) Hypervigilance and False Positives: The Impact of Post-9/11 Policy on, Local Law Enforcement and Immigrant Profiling” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, Wa.

Metchik, Eric and Costanza, S.E.: (2006) “Examining the Integration of Computer Literacy Training and Alcohol Prevention” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland

Helms, Ronald and Costanza, S.E. (2004) "Race, Inequality and Asset Forfeiture: Conclusive Findings” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Bristol, R.I

Helms, Ronald and Costanza, S.E. (2004) "Race, Inequality and the War on Drugs: A Quantitative Assessment of Differential Use of Civil and Criminal Procedures in U.S. Counties” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada

Costanza, S.E., Sullenberger, Thomas, and Kilburn Jr., John C. (2002) “Class, Race and Legal Handgun Concealment in Louisiana” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois

Costanza, S.E., Sullenberger, Thomas, and Kilburn Jr., John C (2000) “Examining the Demographic Correlates of Legal Handgun Concealment in Louisiana: Preliminary Findings” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association

 Costanza, S.E., Sullenberger, Thomas (1999) “Correlates of Juvenile Boot Camp Completion”presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association

Sullenberger, Thomas and S.E. Costanza. (1999) “A Study of LOCIS: Variance in Crime Cause Attitudes among Criminal Justice Students “ presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Criminal Justice Association,

Costanza, S.E., Thomas Sullenberger, and Dale Parent: (1999) "Fear of Crime, Victimization and Gun Ownership: An Examination of Gun Ownership across Metro and Non-Metro Areas in Louisiana" presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Southern Sociological Society