Rob T. Guerette
 | Areas of ExpertiseSituational Crime Prevention | Problem and Community-Oriented Policing | Transnational Crime | Program and Policy Evaluation EducationPh.D., Rutgers University-Newark, Criminal Justice, 2004 |
Contact
Office: PCA-366B
Phone: 305.348.0424
Email: Guerette@fiu.edu
Biography
Rob T. Guerette is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of International and Public Affairs. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is affiliated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and serves as the advisor and coordinator for the annual International Herman Goldstein Awards for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing, a program supported by the United States Department of Justice - Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). He has worked on projects in consultation or affiliation with the Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Border Patrol, the National Research Council, United States Department of Justice-Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), British Home Office Research Directorate, the Miami Police Department and the New Jersey Department of Probation and Parole.
His research has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets including Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Crime Prevention Studies, Criminology & Public Policy, the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and Security Journal. He is author of Migrant Death: Border Safety and Situational Crime Prevention on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (2007); co-editor of the book Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime, and Terrorism (2006); and co-author of a book chapter in Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence (2002). Formerly, he was a private criminal and civil investigator where he worked an assortment of cases on federal and state levels.
Select Publications
Przeszlowski, K., Guerette, R. T., Lee-Silcox, J., Rodriguez, J., Ramirez, J., & Gutierrez, A. (2023). The centralization and rapid deployment of police agency information technologies: An appraisal of real-time crime centers in the US. The Police Journal, 96(4), 553-572. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X221107587
D’Alessio, S. J., Stolzenberg, L., Guerette, R. T., & Zgoba, K. M. (2023). The effect of self-defense laws on firearm use among criminal offenders. Crime & Delinquency, 69(13-14), 2826-2845. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221077629
Przeszlowski, K., Guerette, R. T., & Sudderth, L. K. (2023). The Role and Impact of the Use of Information Technologies by Police in Response to Violence against Women. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), 6125. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126125
Gies, S. V., Nichols, L. M., Mojekwu, F., Guerette, R. T., & Tanner-Smith, E. E. (2023). Applying an empirically derived effect size distribution to benchmark the practical magnitude of interventions to reduce recidivism in the USA. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09561-1
Shariati, A., & Guerette, R. T. (2023). Findings from a natural experiment on the impact of covid-19 residential quarantines on domestic violence patterns in New Orleans. Journal of family violence, 38(2), 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00380-y
Guerette, R. T., Lee-Silcox, J., & Przeszlowski, K. (2021). From Research Partner to Embedded Criminologist: A Synthesized Taxonomy and Reflections From the Field. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(2), 770-783. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paz044
Guerette, R. T., Przeszlowski, K, Lee-Silcox, J., & Zgoba, K. (2021). Improving policing through better analysis: an empirical assessment of a crime analysis training and enhancement project within an urban police department. Police Practice and Research, 22(4), 1425-1442. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2020.1861448
Guerette, R. T., Zgoba, K. M., Comerford, C., & Salerno, L. M. (2020). A Test of Time-constraint Predictions on Residence-to-Crime Distances among Sex Offenders. Victims & Offenders, 15, 119-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2019.1661318