Rod K. Brunson

Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science; Director of Graduate Mentoring and Diversity Initiatives, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
At Northeastern since 2019
Rod K. Brunson’s research informs criminal justice policy and crime control practices. Brunson is also a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. His scholarship appears in the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, City & Community, Evaluation Review, Urban Affairs Review, and the Journal of Research, Crime and Delinquency.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
Read Professor Brunson’s Faculty Spotlight.
- Fellow, 2019, American Society of Criminology.
- Coramae Richey Mann Award, 2017, American Society of Criminology, Division on People of Color and Crime.
- Tory J. Caeti Outstanding Young Scholar Award, 2010, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Juvenile Justice Section.
- New Scholar Award, 2008, American Society of Criminology, Division on People of Color and Crime.
- Brunson, Rod K. and Brian Wade. 2019. “‘Oh Hell No, We Don’t Talk to Police’: Improved Police Relations with High-Risk Shooting Victims and Perpetrators.” Criminology & Public Policy. 18:623-648.
- Braga, Anthony A., Rod K. Brunson, and Kevin Drakulich. 2019. “Race, Place, and Effective Policing.” Annual Review of Sociology.
- Gau, Jacinta and Rod K. Brunson. 2010. “Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner-City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy.” Justice Quarterly. 27:255-279.
- Brunson, Rod K. and Ronald Weitzer. 2009. “Police Relations with Black and White Youths in Different Urban Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review. 44:858-885.
- Brunson, Rod K. 2007. “‘Police Don’t Like Black People’: African American Young Men’s Accumulated Police Experiences.” Criminology & Public Policy. 6:71-102.
- Brunson, Rod K. and Jody Miller. 2006. “Young Black Men and Urban Policing in the United States.” British Journal of Criminology. 46:613-640.
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Education
PhD, 2003, Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Area of Concentration: Criminology
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Contact
(617) 373-3880 r.brunson@northeastern.edu -
Address
413 Churchill Hall
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115