LOREEN WOLFER

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sociology/Criminal Justice
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: (570) 941-7450
E-mail: wolferl2@epix.net (That's WOLFERL2 )

EDUCATION

• 1996 Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University
• 1993 Master of Arts, Sociology, Cornell University
• 1991 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College

• 1997 University of Scranton Chapter of Sigma Phi Omega
• 1992-95 Cornell University Summer Fellowship
• 1991-92 Cornell University Sage Fellowship
• 1991 Franklin and Marshall Departmental Honors
• 1991 Franklin and Marshall Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta

• 1997-present Assistant Professor: University of Scranton
• 1996-1997 Full-Time One Year Instructor: University of Scranton
• 1995-1996 Assistant Professor: Rowan College of New Jersey
• 1994 (summer) Visiting Professor for Sociology of the Family: Dickinson College

1999-2000

• Internal grant for development of Introduction to Social Problems web based course

• "Community Oriented and Problem-Solving Policing: Crime Prevention Planning Document", U.S. Department of Justice: PA 040 2500. $46,000. Research Evaluator.

• "Women - Perpetrators or Victims?" Internal Research Grant, University of Scranton. Primary Researcher. $750.

2000

• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Teaching Organized Crime: An Active Learning Approach" conditional acceptance to the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

1999

• Wolfer, L.T., T. Baker and R.Zezza. " Problem-Solving Policing: Eliminating Hot Spots." The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1999
• Wolfer, L. "Having Children and Getting Married: Black and White Daughters' Early Family Behavior". under review at Sex Roles.
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Teaching Organized Crime: An Active Learning Approach" under review in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

• Wolfer, Loreen. "Parenthood and Marriage: Does Maternal Employment Influence the Timing of Adult Family Transitions for Daughters' from Different Economic Backgrounds?" Sociological Viewpoints . v. 14, pp.39-62.
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Police Grantsmanship: A Case Study". The Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Vol., 13, No.2, pp. 55-66.

• Wolfer, Loreen and Phyllis Moen. "Maternal Employment and Early Adult Transitions: Black and White Daughters' Schooling and Employment". Journal of Family Issues. Vol. 17, No. 4, July 1996
• Donald P. Hayes, Loreen T. Wolfer and Michael F. Wolfe. "Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT Scores." American Educational Research Journal. Vol. 33, No. 2, Sept. 1996

1999

• Review of Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. by Mary Howard and Ann V. Millard. in Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Vol 30, No. 1, pp. 156-157.
• Review of Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works. by Francine M. Deutsch. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. 1999. for Choice.
• Review of Changing Families, Changing Responsibilities: Family Obligations Following Divorce and Remarriage. by Lawrence H. Ganong and Marilyn Coleman. L. Erlbaum: New Jersey. 1999. for Choice.

• Review of When Baby Boom Women Retire by Nancy Dailey. Praeger: Westport, Conn. for Choice.
• Review of Sexed Work: Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market. by Lisa Maher. Clarendon Press: Oxford. 1997 for Choice.

• Review of Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves. by David Lester. The Charles Press, 1997. in Sociological Viewpoints, Vol. 12, pp. 65-66.

2000

• Wolfer, Loreen. "Maternal Employment, Daughters' Years in School and IncomeBackgrounds: Is There a Relationship?" Paper presented at the 70 annual Eastern Sociological Society meeting. Baltimore, MD, March 2-5.
• Hayes, Donald and Loreen Wolfer. "Educational Inputs and Delayed Outcomes" Paper presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C., Feb. 17-22.

1999

• Wolfer, Loreen and David Friedrichs. "The Jesuit Commmittment to Justice, Law and Justice, and Criminal Justice." The Committment to Justice in Jesuit Highter Education Conference. Boston College, October 29-31.
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Fear of Crime Among the Suburban Elderly." at the 94th annual meeting of the American Sociological Assocation in Chicago, Il, August 6-10.
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Applied Research: Grantsmanship and Evaluation." Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences. New Hope, PA. June 10-12
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker "Problem-Oriented Policing: Information Technology" at the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators, April 9-10 in Altoona, PA.
• Wolfer, Loreen and Thomas Baker. "Police Grantsmanship: A Case Study." Society for Police and Criminal Psychology. Long Island, NY. October 6-9.
• Baker, Thomas and Loreen Wolfer. "Problem-Solving Policing: Criminal Analysis." Society for Police and Criminal Psychology. Long Island, NY. October 6-9.
• Baker, Thomas and Loreen Wolfer. "Neighborhood Policing: Developing Guardians." Society for Police and Criminal Psychology. Long Island, NY. October 6-9.
• Baker, Thomas and Loreen Wolfer "COPS Grants: Neutralizing Crime Hot Spots' " presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences March 9-13 in Orlando, FL.

1998

• Wolfer, Loreen. "Having Children and Getting Married: Does Maternal Employment Influence Black and White Daughter's Early Family Role Transitions?" 93rd annual American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco, CA, August 21-25.
• Wolfer, Loreen. "To Have, Hold and Hit From this Day Forward: The Treatment of Spousal Abuse in Social Problems Textbooks." 48th annual Pennsylvania Sociological Society meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23-24
• Baker, Thomas and Loreen Wolfer. "Teaching Organized Crime." American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November, 11-14, 1998.
• Baker, Thomas and Loreen Wolfer. "Police Grantsmanship and the Consultant." Southern Criminal Justice Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 7-10. 1998
• Baker, Thomas, Loreen Wolfer, and R. Zezza "Problem-Solving Policing Successes." Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services Workshop, Autsin, Texas, August 31-September 2.
• Baker, Thomas, Loreen Wolfer and R. Zezza. "Problem - Solving Policing: Vandalsism." Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services Workshop, Autsin, Texas, August 31-September 2.

• Wolfer, Loreen. "The Influence of Temporal Characteristics of Maternal Employment on the Timing of Daughters Transition to Parenthood and Marriage". 47th annual Pennsylvania Sociological Society meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 9-10.

• Wolfer, Loreen. "Globalization and the United States" at the 46th annual Pennsylvania Sociological Society's meeting in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, November 9-10.

• Wolfer, Loreen. Maternal Employment: Does it Matter in the Long Run?" 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC. "
• Wolfer, Loreen. "Maternal Employment: Does it Affect Daughter's As They Enter Adulthood?". Paper Accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

• Wolfer, Loreen. The Interacting Effects of Maternal Employment, Home Environment, and the Timing/Duration of Nonmaternal Child Care on Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Development." 89th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.,Miami, Fl.
• Hayes, Donald, Loreen Wolfer and Susan Roschke. "Genes and Environments are Correlated: How Strongly?" 89th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association., Miami, Fl.

• Hayes, Donald and Loreen Wolfer. "Was the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores Caused by Simplified Schoolbooks?" . 87th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
• Hayes, Donald and Loreen Wolfer. "How Challenging are American Schoolbooks? An International Comparison." annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.

• American Sociological Association
• American Sociological Association Section on Education
• American Sociological Association Section on Children
• American Sociological Association Section on the Family
• American Society of Criminology
• Pennsylvania Sociological Society

1999

• Board Member of Student Affairs at the University of Scranton

• Editor of Sociological Viewpoints, the Journal of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society
• Committee member of Faculty-Student Research Committee

• Member of the University of Scranton Institutional Review Board
• Committee member of the Honors Council, University of Scranton
• Committee member for the Office of Instructional Development, University of Scranton
• Student Academic Advising, University of Scranton

• Assistant Editor of Sociological Viewpoints, the Journal of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society

• Special Programs Committee, Rowan College of New Jersey
• Student Academic Advising, Rowan College of New Jersey

• Secretary/Treasurer, Graduate Students in Sociology, Cornell University.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

1998-present

• Statistical consultant for the COPS grant assisting a local police department in re-structuring their policing practices
• Statistical consultant for the STARS program jointly run by the Honorable Judge Chester Harhut of the Lackawanna Family Court, the District Attorney, and the Dept. of Human Services
• Participant in the organization of the "Mystery at the Masonic" yearly event to benefit the Scranton Cultural Center

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