Department of Criminal Justice
As of August 17, 2020, Dr.Lori Guevara was appointed as the New Director of QEP (Quality EnhancementPlan) for SACCOC. Dr. Lori Guevara is an Associate Professor in the Department of CriminalJustice at Fayetteville State University. She has been a faculty member at FSUsince August 2004, serving as Department Chair from 2007-2009.
Dr. Guevara earned a PhD in 2001 inCriminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the same institutionwhere received her Master of Science (1996) and Bachelor of Science (1989)in Criminal Justice degrees. Dr. Guevara has taught courses at both theundergraduate and graduate levels. In particular, has taught courses suchas Research Methods, Statistics, Program Evaluation, Criminological Theory,Ethics in Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice, and Seminar inCriminal Justice.
Dr. Guevara’s research focuses onjuvenile justice processing and racial disparities in school suspensiondecisions. Her research has been publid in peer reviewed journals such asCrime and Delinquency, Feminist Criminology, Youth Violence and JuvenileJustice, Race and Justice, Journal of Ethnicity, Juvenile and Family CourtJournal, and Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.
