Bio
Rob T. Guerette is Pprofessor of Ccriminology & Ccriminal Jjustice in the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at Florida International University. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2002-2003). He is a two-time Fulbright Specialist recipient: Iceland (2021) and India (2024). His research interests primarily focus on situational crime prevention, evidence-based policing, transnational crime, and program and policy evaluation. He served as the senior researcher for the crime prevention section of the Crime Solutions Resource Center, the scientific evidence-based clearinghouse of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is also affiliated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and served as the advisor and coordinator for the annual International Herman Goldstein Awards for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing for 14 years. In addition, he has worked on projects in consultation, collaboration, or affiliation with the U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Border Patrol, the U.S. Department of Defense - Special Operations Command, the U.S. Department of State - Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the National Research Council, the British Home Office Research Directorate, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA-UK), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, and the Miami Police Department as well as other local police departments and governmental agencies.
His research has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets including Criminology; Crime & Delinquency; Crime Prevention Studies; Criminology & Public Policy; the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research; the Journal of Criminal Justice; the Journal of Experimental Criminology; the British Journal of Criminology; the Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs; Justice Evaluation Journal and Justice Quarterly, among others. He is the author of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, Problem-Solving Tools Guide No 10, Analyzing Crime Displacement and Diffusion and Problem-Specific Guide No. 44, Disorder at Day Laborer Sites, part of a publication series produced by the U.S. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He is also the author of the book Migrant Death: Border Safety and Situational Crime Prevention on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (2007) and co-editor of the books The Evolution of Illicit Flows: Displacement and Convergence among Transnational Crime (2022) and Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism (2006).
Selected Publications
Guerette, R. T., Zgoba, K. M., Comerford, C., & Salerno, L. M. (2020). A Test of Time-constraint Predictions on Residence-to-Crime Distances among Sex Offenders. Victims & Offenders, 15, 119-139.
Guerette, R. T., Lee-Silcox, J., & Przeszlowski, K. (2019, OnlineFirst). From Research Partner to Embedded Criminologist: A Synthesized Taxonomy and Reflections From the Field. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
Guerette, R. T., Pires, S. F., & Shariati, A. (2018). Detecting the determinants and trajectories of homicide among ransom kidnappings: A research note. Homicide Studies, 22(2), 214-229.
Areas of Expertise
Situational Crime Prevention | Problem and Community-Oriented Policing | Transnational Crime | Program and Policy EvaluationDegrees
Ph.D., Rutgers University-Newark, Criminal Justice, 2004M.S., University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Criminal Justice, 2000
B.S., College of Charleston, Sociology, 1994