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Dr. Famega received her B.A. from the University of Manitoba in Canada , her M.S. from Minot State University , ND , and her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, OH. Prior to arriving at CSUSB in 2002, Dr. Famega served as the Assistant Editor for the journal Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. She also worked for the Narcotics and the Investigations Divisions of the North Dakota State Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Dr. Famega's research and scholarship have centered around several National Institute of Justice (NIJ), sponsored grants for implementing and evaluating police technology and programs including:
- Evaluations of technology used to identify and locate random shots fired incidents (“Field Evaluation of the System for the Effective Control of Urban Environment Security [SECURES TM ]” and “A Field Evaluation of the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System”)
- A systematic social observation study of street-level and community and patrol officers over a 13 month period (“Street-Level Policing Efforts in Cincinnati : The Content of Community and Traditional Policing and the Perceptions of Policing Audiences” )
- An assessment of the implementation and impact of non-emergency call systems on police patrol operations in Baltimore, MD; Dallas, TX; Phoenix, AZ; and Buffalo, NY (“Reducing Non-Emergency Calls to 911: An Assessment of Four Approaches to Handling Citizen Calls for Service”)
- Currently, she is the Research Manager for an experiment being conducted in the Inland Empire “Broken Windows Policing: A Randomized Experimental Evaluation of its Impacts on Disorder, Fear and Crime in Three Cities”
Dr. Famega has also worked with the City of San Bernardino Mayor's Office on “Operation Phoenix”, and the San Bernardino County Police Chiefs and Sheriff's Association on a study of “Police Response to Burglar Alarms.” She is serving as the 2008-2009 Vice President of the Western Society of Criminology.
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Professional Specialties:
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Organizational context of proactive and reactive policing
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Police technology
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Program and
policy evaluation
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Criminological theory |
Selected Publications:
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Famega, C.N. (Forthcoming). proactive policing by post and community officers. Crime and Delinquency. |
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Famega, C.N., Frank, J., & Mazerolle, L. (2005). Managing police patrol time: The role of supervisor directives. Justice Quarterly, 22(4). |
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Famega, C.N. (2005). Variation of officer downtime: A review of the research. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 28(3). |
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Mazerolle, L., Rogan, D., Frank, J., Famega, C.N. & Eck, J.E. (Feb 2005). NIJ Research for Practice: Managing calls to the police with 911/311 systems. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. |
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Mazerolle, L., Rogan, D., Frank, J., Famega, C.N. & Eck, J.E. (Feb 2005). NIJ Research for Policy: Managing calls to the police with 911/311 systems Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. |
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Mazerolle,
L .G., D. Rogan, J. Frank, C. N. Famega & J. E. Eck. (2002).
Managing citizen calls to the police: The impact of Baltimore's
311 call system. Criminology and Public Policy, 2 (1).
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Mazerolle,
L. G., D. Rogan, J. Frank, C. N. Famega & J. E. Eck. (2001).
"Managing Citizen Calls to the Police: An Assessment of Non-Emergency
Call Systems." Final Report Submitted to the National Institute
of Justice Grant # 98-IJ-CX-0067.
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Mazerolle,
L. G. & C. N. Famega. (1998). "New England Police Consortium
Project, Report 1: Analysis of Participating Departments."
Report Submitted to the Police Foundation and the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Service (COPS).
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Affiliations,
Associations, Consultations:
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American
Society of Criminology (ASC)
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Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS)
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Western Society of Criminology (WSC) |
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Center for Criminal Justice Research |
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