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

451 Vance Academic Center
Office Phone: (860)832-3139
Email Address: Costanzaste@mail.ccsu.edu

Office Hours:

Monday: 11:50-1:50 pm
Tuesday:  12:00-3:00 pm
Wednesday: 11:50-2:50 pm
Thursday: 2:30-3:50pm (WTBY)
 

  Education

Ph.D. Louisiana State University,1998. Sociology/Criminology
M.S. University of New Orleans,1994. Sociology
B.S. University of New Orleans,1991. (Dual Thematic: Sociology and Journalism)

  Courses Taught

Juvenile Delinquency
Crime Theory

  Research Interests

Policy Analysis, Crime Mapping and Quantitative Criminology
Race and Organized Crime

Selected Publications

  Costanza, S.E., Kilburn Jr., John C. and Helms, Ronald (forthcoming: October 2008) “A Brief History of Counterterrorism” Domestic Terrorism (Eds.: Borgeson, Kevin and Valeri, Robin; Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, Mass.
 
Helms, Ronald and Costanza, S.E. (forthcoming) "Race, Politics and Drug Law Enforcement:  An Analysis of Civil Asset Forfeiture Patterns Across U.S. Counties", Policing and Society
  Costanza, S.E., (2006) "Albert Anastasia" Notorious Lives (Great Lives from History), Salem Press (Ed: Carl Bankston)
 

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

 

Costanza, S. E., Kilburn Jr., John C., (2004) "Circling the Welcome Wagons: Area, Income, Race, and Legal Handgun Concealment" Criminal Justice Review, Vol 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, Vol 24(1): 71-83

  Costanza, S.E. (2000) "The History of Organized Crime in the United States" The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, Routledge (Ed: Clifton Bryant)  

 

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