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Ryan Roberts
Ryan Roberts
Assistant Professor
Criminal Justice & Consumer Sciences
Cushwa Hall 2165
phone: (330) 941-1790
Research Interests
Gang Research, Security Studies, Terrorism & Other Non-State Violent Actors (NSVAs)
Teaching Interests
Gangs Studies, Security Studies, Homeland Security, Corrections, Immigration Policing & Enforcement, Cybercrime, Research Methods
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2021
Ph D, International Security
Old Dominion University
Dissertation/Thesis Title — "Re-spatializing Gangs in the United States: An Anlysis of Macro- and Micro-Level Network Structures"
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2011
MA, Global Political Economy
Old Dominion University
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2004
MBA, International Business
University of Toledo
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2001
BS, International Business
Bowlng Green State University
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2021 - 2025
Gardner-Webb University
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Homeland Security
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2018 - 2021
College of the Albemarle
Lecturer
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2013 - 2016
Pasquotank Correctional Institution
Correctional Officer
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2026
"Gang networks and the evolving security threat landscape (Vol. 1): Gang variability, gang transformation, and the threat multiplier of gang networks"
R. Roberts
Springer Nature -
2023
"Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel"
R. Roberts
The Handbook of Homeland Security, p. 587-590 -
2023
"Assessing spurious correlations in big search data"
J. Richman, R. Roberts
Forecasting, volume 5, p. 285-296 -
2021
"Re-spatializing gangs: An exponential random graph model of Twitter data to analyze the geographic distribution of gang networks"
R. Roberts
International Journal of Cyber Criminology, volume 15, issue 2, p. 18-43 -
2020
"When do low roll rates indicate party influence? Evidence from counterfactual roll rates"
J. Richman, R. Roberts
Legislative Studies Quarterly, volume 45, issue 2, p. 177-206 -
2023
"Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) international criminal gang"
R. Roberts, S. Romaniuk
CRC Press, p. 591-594 -
2020
"Islamic extremism and the crystallization of norms: An agent-based model of prison radicalization"
R. Roberts, A. Collins
Springer, p. 67-81
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2026 - present
Reviewer, Journal Article
International Criminal Justice Review
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2025 - 2025
Participant
Elkhorn FCI