Lisa Stolzenberg
 | Areas of ExpertiseCrime Analysis | Prosecutor Discretion | Criminal Sentencing | Law and Policy Impact Analysis | Quantitative Analysis EducationPh.D., Florida State University, Criminology, 1993 |
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
D'Alessio, S. J., & Stolzenberg, L., & *Teresak, T. (2026). The hidden cost of immigration: Black displacement and urban crime. Springer Briefs.
Stolzenberg, L., & D'Alessio, S. J. (2025). Crime science: Modern technologies to combat crime. Routledge.
Stolzenberg, L., & D’Alessio, S. J. (2026). Release mechanism and pretrial failure in large urban counties. Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15060395
D’Alessio, S. J., & Stolzenberg, L. (2026). Hate crime trends and victim injury: A longitudinal test of prejudice-driven aggression and instrumentation effects. American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-026-09926-y
D’Alessio, S. J., Stolzenberg, L., & Flexon, J. L. (2026). Beyond peer homophily: Cross-age collaboration in juvenile co-offending. Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15060400
*Alqahtani, M., Stolzenberg, L., & D’Alessio, S. J. (2026). Incarceration and the law of diminishing marginal returns. Criminal Justice Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/08874034261461438
*Sharma, M., Stolzenberg, L., & D'Alessio, S. J. (2026). Bail reform and public safety: Evidence from Philadelphia's prosecutor-led pretrial policies. Journal of Criminal Justice, 104, 102666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2026.102666
*Kleiban, G. E., *Montoya, E. M., Pires, S. F., Stolzenberg, L., & D’Alessio, S. J. (2026).The impact of COVID-19 residential quarantines on patterns of violence against women in Colombia. Journal of Family Violence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-026-01078-1
*Chavez, E., D’Alessio, S. J., & Stolzenberg, L. (2026). The effect of prior criminal record on pretrial failure. Social Sciences, 15(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15010011
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
D’Alessio, S. J., Flexon, J. L., & Stolzenberg, L. (2025). The effect of police force size on the reporting of nonphysical injury crime. The Police Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X251340178
D’Alessio, S. J., Stolzenberg, L., & Flexon, J. L. (2025). Economic inequality and the monetary reward in a robbery. Journal of Economic Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconc.2025.100139
Flexon, J. L., Stolzenberg, L., & D’Alessio, S. J. (2024). The effect of cannabis legislation on opioid and benzodiazepine use among aging Americans. AIMS Medical Science, 11(4), 361-377. https://doi.org/10.3934/medsci.2024025