Stewart J. D'Alessio

Contact

Office: PCA-263B
Phone: 305.348.6277
Email: dalessi@fiu.edu

Biography

Stewart J. D’Alessio is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. He earned his B.A. in History from Stetson University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University. Professor D’Alessio has a broad publication record and hands-on experience in program evaluation. Before pursuing an academic career, he worked on a federally funded grant for the Florida Department of Corrections that evaluated innovative programs in local jails across the state. He also worked as a program evaluator for a federally funded juvenile treatment program based at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. Additionally, Professor D’Alessio served as a Captain in the Military Police and participated in “Operation Just Cause” and “Operation Desert Storm.” His unit received the “Valorous Unit Award” for extraordinary heroism during military operations in Panama during “Operation Just Cause.”

Select 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