Eileen
Ahlin

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Expertise:

Criminal Justice

Focus Areas:

Institutional and Community Corrections
Race and Ethnicity
Violence and Victimization

In The Media:

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About

Named a 2016 W.E.B. DuBois Fellow by the National Institute of Justice to expand her work on risk and protective factors associated with exposure to community violence and violent behaviors
Joined faculty in 2013 after 15 years of conducting research at the federal, state and local levels

Eileen Ahlin is an associate professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. She received her master’s degree in sociology at George Mason University and her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland. Her research interests include criminological theory, violence, neighborhood effects, corrections, racial and social justice, and research methods. Of those interests, she likes to focus her research on violence and corrections. Her current research examines risk and protective factors associated violence and victimization in juvenile detention centers and adult jails and prisons, and within the community.

Dr. Ahlin’s research appears in journals such as the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, The Prison Journal, Race & Justice, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. Her most recent publication is Violence in the Heights: The Torn Social Fabric of Inner-City Neighborhoods (2023, Routledge).