Ryan Spohn is the Director of the Nebraska Center of Justice Research (NCJR) in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he performs statewide and local research and evaluation activities targeted at improving the performance of Nebraska’s juvenile justice, criminal justice, and corrections activities. Dr. Spohn has published in numerous sociology and criminal justice journals, including Criminal Justice and Behavior, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, and Crime & Delinquency. Dr. Spohn has served as both a research partner and a consultant for the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). He is a Fellow of the BJA Innovations Suite Research-Practitioner Academy and a Fellow of Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Iowa
Experience
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–presentDirector, Nebraska Center for Justice Research School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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2010–2012Research assistant professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2003–2010Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Education
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2003University of Iowa, PhD
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1998Texas A&M University, MS
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1996Kansas State University, BS
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Criminology
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- American Correctional Association
- American Evaluation Association
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Website
- Article Feed
- rspohn@unomaha.edu
- ORCID
- Joined
