Scholarly Activities
Criminal Justice
Department faculty made presentations at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Seattle in March.
- Dr. William Thornton and Dr. Lydia Voigt presented “Bridging Religion and Criminal Justice: A Dual Graduate Degree in Pastoral Theology and Criminal Justice,” written in conjunction with Dr. Mark Markuly, former LIM director.
- Dr. Wendy Hicks presented “Improving Instruction and Curriculum in Criminal Justice Education: The Use of Exit Surveys to Facilitate Growth.”
- Dr. Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing (MCJ ’07) presented “The Criminalization and Suppression of Abortion: New Orleans, 1940-1959.”
Dr. Hicks has published a textbook, “Police Vehicular Pursuits: Constitutionality, Liability & Negligence.” Published by Charles C. Thomas Publishers, it is on shelves now.
Dr. Hicks also assisted with the rewrite of the vehicular pursuit policy for Queensland, Australia.
Dr. Harper presented a paper titled “Risk of Murder at the Neighborhood Level: A Time Series Analysis” at the European Society of Criminology meeting in Bologna, Italy in September.
Dr. Harper and Katrina W. Berger's (MCJ ’06) paper “Relevant Law and Empirical Research on Profiling in Law Enforcement in the United States” was presented in April at the International Police Executive Symposium meeting in Dubai, U.A.E.
Dr. Harper and Kelly Frailing’s paper “Various Socioeconomic Factors and the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans” was presented at the British Society of Criminology meeting in September.
Kelly Frailing and Dr. Harper's “Crime and Hurricanes in New Orleans” is due to be published in the Southern Sociological Society edited volume, The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. The publisher is Rowman & Littlefield.
Dr. Harper and Gwen Nolan's (MCJ ’06) paper titled “What does it take to Recruit and Retain Police Officers?” was published in the Working Papers (#2, February, 2007) series of the International Police Executive Symposium.
Dr. Harper and Dr. Lydia Voigt’s paper “Homicide Followed by Suicide: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective” is set to be published in a forthcoming edition of the journal Homicide Studies.
Nursing
Prof. Gwen George received a $3500 professional development grant to explore the development of a Doctorate of Nursing Practice Degree for Nurse Practitioners. The DNP is a terminal clinical doctorate designed to be the entry level for nurse practitioners in the year 2015. Development of this program will keep Loyola University New Orleans School of Nursing NP program competitive with other programs in the area and the region.
Dr. Mary Oriol, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, published “Crew Resource Management: Applications in healthcare organizations” in the prominent, peer reviewed Journal of Nursing Administration. The article included a review of how some healthcare organizations have successfully adopted the aviation industry’s curriculum called Crew Resource Management to facilitate safety practices in the workplace. CRM practices promote and continually reinforce the conscious, learned team behaviors of cooperation, coordination, and sharing.
Dr. Gail Tumulty, professor and interim director, School of Nursing and John Batty (C ‘06) presented Nursing Heroism: Nurses Response to Hurricane Katrina at the American Nurses Association Conference, Nursing Care in Life, Death and Disaster held in June in Atlanta.
Dr. Tumulty and Dr. Oriol received $215,530 in grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration for the second year of the project titled “Bridge to Leadership Education at a Distance.” This is a three-year project to assist nurses with bachelor’s degrees in other fields to enter into graduate education. Dr. Barbara Bihm has been working intensively with the team in the project implementation.
