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Dr. Jennifer Biddle, PhD

Email: jbiddle@nu.edu     Phone: 480-253-4712

Jennifer Biddle, Ph.D. is the Academic Program Director for the Doctor of Criminal Justice at National University. She is also an Associate Professor in the College of Law and Public Service. She has extensive experience instructing criminal justice courses, mentoring students, advising student research, developing new teaching strategies, preparing assignments, and maintaining positive classroom relationships with students. Jennifer graduated with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. She received a dissertation fellowship, for her dissertation entitled, Reassessing the Relationship between Religion and Juvenile Delinquency which was awarded from the Graduate School-Newark, Rutgers University. She is also a graduate of the Maricopa County Adult Probation Supervisor Leadership Academy (SLA). She has presented at numerous conferences, written various blogs and articles for publication, and participated in many research projects.

Areas of Expertise

• Criminal Justice
• Research and Analysis
• Curriculum Development and Instruction

Education

• Ph.D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• M.A., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• B.A., The Pennsylvania State University

Dissertation

• Reassessing the Relationship between Religion and Juvenile Delinquency

Publications

• Biddle, Jennifer (2018) Drug Offenders. In Williams, J.M. Chowdhury, L., Daftary-Kapur, T., Garcia, E., & Vodde, R. (Eds). Contemporary Ethical Issues in the Criminal Justice System: A Textbook Reader. San Diego: Cognella Academic Press (under contract).
• Inciardi, James and Jennifer Meyer (2001) Arson: Behavioral and Economic Aspects, in Joshua Dressler (ed.), Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (New York, Macmillan publishing, 2001).