Tim Goddard
 | Areas of ExpertiseIssues of Social Justice in Crime Policy | Risk Factor Prevention Paradigm | Youth Offending Prevention | Voluntary Community-Based Organizations EducationPh.D., University of California, Irvine, Criminology, Law & Society, 2012 |
Contact
Office: PCA-256
Phone: 305.348.4873
Email: tgoddard@fiu.edu
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Dr. Tim Goddard is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine—a distinguished program in criminology—and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Goddard co-authored the 2018 book Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice (Routledge), and his work has appeared in various academic journals, including the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Race and Justice, Punishment and Society, Youth Justice, and the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Dr. Goddard's work has appeared in several edited books, including The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology (2023), The Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System (2025), and Disrupting the Nexus of Neoliberalism & Carceral Reach: Pursuing Contemporary Social Change (2026). He is a co-editor of the book series Palgrave Advances in Child Justice and the lead Editor of the forthcoming book Juvenile Justice in Context: Mapping the Present, Envisioning the Future (Palgrave). His current research critically examines the use of risk-factor–based assessments in juvenile justice policy and practice, the role of voluntary nonprofit organizations in service delivery, and reentry programs led by individuals with lived experience of incarceration.
Dr. Goddard regularly teaches the undergraduate Senior Capstone in Criminal Justice and the graduate capstone course Criminal Justice Policy Analysis. His commitment to teaching is reflected in two Writing Across the Curriculum grants to improve student writing in the department’s undergraduate capstone class.
Select Publications
Akintunde, O., & Goddard, T. (2025). Community context and risk assessment: Race, structural disadvantage, and juvenile recidivism. Youth, 5(4), 113. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5040113
Goddard, T., & Magnus, A. M. (2023). Bridging Urban-Rural Grassroots Activism: Activist Criminology in Support of Unified Struggles for Social Change and Social Justice. In V. Canning, G. Martin, and S. Tombs (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 283–295.
Goddard, T. (2021). The trouble with using risk assessment instruments to quantify the chance of future offending. Sustainability, 13(21), 11624. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111624
Myers, R., Goddard, T., & Davidtz, J. (2021). Reconnecting youth: Beyond individualized programs and risks. Youth Justice, 21(1), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420932861
Selman, K. J., Myers, R., & Goddard, T. (2019). Young people, shadow carceral innovations, and the reproduction of inequality. Critical Criminology, 27, 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09468-2
Goddard, T., & Myers, R. (2018). Youth, community and the struggle for social justice. Routledge.
Goddard, T., & Myers, R. (2017). Against evidence-based oppression: Marginalized youth and the politics of risk-based assessment and intervention. Theoretical Criminology, 21(2), 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480616645172