Department of Criminal Justice
As of August 17, 2020, Dr.
Lori Guevara was appointed as the New Director of QEP (Quality Enhancement
Plan) for SACCOC. Dr. Lori Guevara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal
Justice at Fayetteville State University. She has been a faculty member at FSU
since August 2004, serving as Department Chair from 2007-2009.
Dr. Guevara earned a PhD in 2001 in
Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the same institution
where she received her Master of Science (1996) and Bachelor of Science (1989)
in Criminal Justice degrees. Dr. Guevara has taught courses at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. In particular, she has taught courses such
as Research Methods, Statistics, Program Evaluation, Criminological Theory,
Ethics in Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice, and Seminar in
Criminal Justice.
Dr. Guevara’s research focuses on
juvenile justice processing and racial disparities in school suspension
decisions. Her research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as
Crime and Delinquency, Feminist Criminology, Youth Violence and Juvenile
Justice, Race and Justice, Journal of Ethnicity, Juvenile and Family Court
Journal, and Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.