Curriculum Vitae

 

Sunghoon Roh

 

Office

P.O. Box 32107

Department of Political Science & Criminal Justice

Appalachian State University

Boone, NC 28608-2107

(828) 262-6345

rohs@appstate.edu

rohsunghoon@hotmail.com

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS

 

  Ph.D.         Doctoral Candidate

                    College of Criminal Justice

                    Sam Houston State University

                    Major: Criminal Justice

             Dissertation Topic: A Geographic Distribution of Calls for Service in

             Texas Suburbs

                    Dissertation Advisor: Larry Hoover, Ph.D.

  M.A.         School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

                    Florida State University, May 2000.

                    Major: Criminology and Criminal Justice

  B.A.           Department of Law

                    Korea National Police University, March 1993.

                    Major: Law

 

TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

 

Teaching Experience:

 

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Appalachian State University, Fall 2006

 

Contemporary Police Issues

Appalachian State University, Fall 2006

Criminology

Sam Houston State University, Spring 2005

 

Introduction to Research Methods

Sam Houston State University, Fall 2004-Spring 2005

 

Teaching Assistantships:

 

Introduction to Research Methods

Sam Houston State University, Fall 2002

   

Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice System

Sam Houston State University, Fall 2001

 

Other Professional Experiences

 

Research Assistant

    Police Research Center, Sam Houston State University, Spring 2004

    Duties: analyzing calls for service data which are gathered by 10 police

    departments in Texas and managed by the Police Research Center.

 

Media Developer

    Texas Commission of Law Enforcement Standards and Education (TCLEOSE),  

    Sam Houston State University, Spring 2003

    Duties: making on-line training materials for law enforcement officers and

    specializing in the development of video clips.

 

Chief Officer

    Crime Prevention Division, Busanjin Police Department, Busan, South Korea,

    September 2000 - August 2001

    Duties: designing crime prevention plans and managing 18 sub-police stations.

 

Researcher

    Korea National Police University, Summer 2000

    Duties: developing police officer training materials.

 

Chief Officer

    Criminal Investigation Unit, Busanjin Police Department, Busan, South Korea,

    December 1995 - July 1998

    Duties: crime investigations specializing in white-collar crimes and management

    of the Criminal Investigation Unit.

Commander

    Combat Police Force Unit, Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, Busan, South

    Korea, June 1993 - June 1995

    Duties: leading and commanding the Combat Police Force Unit in demonstrations.

 

 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

  A Spatial Distribution of Calls for Service in Texas Suburbs. Paper presented at  

  the Annual Crime Mapping Research Conference, September, 2005, Savannah, GA.

 

The Geographic Distribution of Calls for Service in Texas. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 2004, Nashville, TN.

 

Racial Disparity in Traffic Stops: Focusing on the Effect of Deployment Density and Black Proportion of the Stop Locations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice, October 2004, Houston, TX.

 

A Journey with Murderers: A Geographic Profiling of Traveling Serial Killers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Asian Association of Police Studies, August, 2004, Huntsville, TX.

 

Motivation in the Community Policing Era: Application of Expectancy Theory.  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 2003, Denver, CO.

 

Police Assaults by Citizens in Korea. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 2002, Chicago, IL.

 

Comparison of Inmates Health Care in State/Federal Prisons and Local Jails. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Criminal Justice Sciences, March, 2002, Anaheim, CA.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

       Roh, S. & Oliver, W. (2005). Effects of Community Policing upon Fear of

      Crime: Understanding the Causal Linkage, Policing: An International Journal

      of Police Strategies & Management, Forthcoming (September, 2005).

 

    

     Roh, S. & Leipnik, M.R. (2005). Geographic Profiling and Spatial Analysis of

      Serial Homicides, Chapter 8 in Geographic Information Systems and Crime

     Analysis. Edited by Fahui Wang. Published by Idea Group, Inc. Hershey, PA.

     

      Roh, S. (2004). Motivation in the Community Policing Era: Application of

  Expectancy Theory, Electronic Journal of the Center for Research and

  Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership, Issue 3, April.

(http://www.shsu.edu/~edu_elc/journal/research%20online/researchex04.html)

 

   Manuscripts in Preparation

 

  Roh, S., Social Disorganization in Suburbs: A Study of Calls for Service

  in Texas Suburbs

    

       Tark, J., Choo, T.M., and Roh, S., Impacts of Race on the Decision of

       Reporting Victimization to the Police: Asian's Pattern of Reporting Robbery and

       Assault Victimizations.

      

       Roh, S. & Hoover, L., Racial Disparity in Traffic Stops: Focusing on the Effect

       of Deployment Density and Black Proportion of the Stop Locations.

 

   

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Graduate Student Paper Competition Award in the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice (Second Place), Fall 2004

  Title of the Paper: Racial Disparity in Traffic Stops: Focusing on the Effect of

  Deployment Density and Black Proportion of the Stop Locations.

 

Sam Houston State University Graduate Academic Achievement Scholarship, Summer 2004

 

Graduate Student Paper Competition Award in the Annual Meeting of the

Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice (First Place), Fall 2003

        Title of the Paper: Effects of Community Policing upon Fear of Crime: 

        Understanding the Causal Linkage.

 

Sam Houston State University Graduate Student Scholarship, 2001-2003

 

South Korea Government Foreign Study Fellowship, 1998-2000

 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

The American Society of Criminology

    Student Membership 2002-2005

The Asian Association of Police Studies

    Student Membership 2002-2005

The Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice

    Student Membership 2004-2005

The American Criminal Justice Sciences

    Student Membership 2002-2003

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Ecological criminology (focusing on crime mapping), race in criminal justice system, crime prevention policies, community-oriented policing, and police administration and management

 

RELATED SKILLS

SPSS, ArcGIS, ArcView, GeoDA, CrimeStat, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint