Lisa Stolzenberg

Areas of Expertise Crime Analysis | Prosecutor Discretion | Criminal Sentencing | Law and Policy Impact Analysis | Quantitative Analysis Education Ph.D., Florida State University, Criminology, 1993 M.S., Florida State University, Criminology, 1986 B.A., University of Florida, Criminal Justice, 1985

Contact

Office: PCA-253A
Phone: 305.348.5890
Email: stolzenb@fiu.edu

Biography

Lisa Stolzenberg is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. She holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Florida and both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University. Her research focuses on quantitative methods, emphasizing crime analysis, prosecutorial discretion, criminal sentencing, and the impacts of law and policy. Her work has been published in numerous books and journals. Dr. Stolzenberg has held research positions with Westat, Inc., the Justice Research and Statistics Association, the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, and the Florida Department of Corrections. Beyond academia, she is deeply committed to animal welfare and serves as the Founding President of We Love Animals Rescue Inc. To learn more about her work, visit her ResearchGate profile and Amazon author page.

Recent Publications

Stolzenberg, L., & D'Alessio, S. J. (2025). Crime science: Modern technologies to combat crime. Routledge.

D’Alessio, S. J., Stolzenberg, L., & Flexon, J. L. (2025). The effect of women’s incarceration on the fertility rate. Feminist Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851251411469

Moricette, P., D’Alessio, S. J., & Stolzenberg, L. (2025). The influence of racial threat and intergroup contact on the incarceration of black drug defendants. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377938.2025.2567697

Stolzenberg, L., D'Alessio, S. J., Kutateladze, B. L., & Lawson, V. Z. (2024). A comparison of first-time offenders, repeat offenders, and frequent utilizers of the criminal justice system. Journal of Criminal Justice, 94, 102270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102270

D’Alessio, S. J., Stolzenberg, L., Dunlea, R. R., & Kutateladze, B. L. (2024). Changes in prosecutorial decision-making in response to a high-profile mass shooting. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-024-09774-8

Rayon, D., Stolzenberg, L., & D’Alessio, S. J. (2024). The impact of California’s felony theft threshold law on theft and robbery. Journal of Law and Criminal Justice, 12, 11-22. https://doi.org/10.15640/jlcj.v12a2

Torres, C. E., D’Alessio, S. J., & Stolzenberg, L. (2024). Marginal deterrence: the effect of illicit incentive on robbery escalation. Journal of Economic Criminology, 4, 100062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconc.2024.100062