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******************************AY 2023-2024 OFFICE HOURS***********************

Hope all are well. For the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters my office hours will be held in person and via Zoom, on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6:45am to 7:45am, and 9:45am to 1:45pm, and by appointment. If you would like an appointment simply email me at salvatorec@montclair.edu.

Thank you and stay safe!

Best,

Christopher Salvatore
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Christopher Salvatore
Bio

Dr. Salvatore joined the faculty of Montclair State University in the fall of 2011. He received his PhD in Criminal Justice from Temple University. Dr. Salvatore’s work examines the influence of emerging adulthood on offending and substance use, public perceptions of the criminal justice system, and treatment and prevention programs for justice involved populations. His current work is exploring the influence of emerging adulthood on the current hiring crisis in law enforcement. He teaches Statistics for Social Research, Gangs in America, Corrections, Crime in the Life Course, Victimology and Innovations and Evaluations in Criminal Justice.


Publications

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi. “Pride but is there Job Satisfaction at Work? Survey Based Evidence from Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Workers in the United States,” Sexuality & Culture, October 2023.

Christopher Salvatore. “Treatment Courts: Solving the Recidivism Problem,” Carolina Academic Press, 2023.
https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531025229/Treatment-Courts

Christopher Salvatore. “Expert Commentary Social Bonds in Treatment Courts: The Secret to Success" Drug Court Review, September 2023.



Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi, "Pride but is the Respective at Work? Survey Based Evidence from Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Workers in the United States," International Social Science Review, 94, 4, 2022.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi, "Military Service and Offending Behaviors of Emerging Adults: A Conceptual review," Social Sciences, 10, 49, 2021.

Christopher Salvatore & Tarika Daftary-Kapur,"The Influence of Emerging Adulthood on the Risk and Dangerous Behaviors of LGBT Populations," Social Sciences, 9, 228, 2020.

Christopher Salvatore, Venezia Michalson, & Caitlin Taylor, "Reentry Court Judges: The Key to the Court," Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 59 (4), 2020.. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509674.2020.1733164.

Gabriel Rubin & Christopher Salvatore, “Spitting Bullets: Anger’s Long-Ignored Role in Terrorism
and Responses to Terror: A Pilot Study.” International Social Science Review, 95 (2), 2019. Available at:https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/issr/vol95/iss2/3/

Christopher Salvatore. "Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood." Palgrave/MacMillan, 2018.

Christopher Salvatore & Gabriel Rubin. "The Influence of Religion on the Criminal Behavior of Emerging Adults." Religions, 2018. http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/5/141/pdf

Jessica Henry, Christopher Salvatore, & Bai-Eye Pugh. "Virtual Life Sentences: An Exploratory Study," The Prison Journal, 2018. http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/EEUvAjyAT6IYNZbh6Mmw/full

Christopher Salvatore. “An Examination of Offending During Emerging Adulthood: The Emerging Adulthood Gap Thesis,” International Social Science Review, 93(1), 2017. Available at: https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=issr

Travis Taniguchi & Christopher Salvatore. "Policing a negotiated world: A partial test of Klinger's ecological theory of policing" Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2017 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10940-017-9337-x

Christopher Salvatore & Gabriel Rubin. "A Socio-Demographic Analysis of Responses to Terrorism," Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, 12 (4) 2015.

Travis Taniguchi & Christopher Salvatore. "Citizen Perceptions of Online Crime Reporting Systems," Police Chief Magazine, June 2015, available at: http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&article_id=3765&issue_id=62015.

Matthew Hiller, Christopher Salvatore, & Travis Taniguchi. “Evaluation of a Department of Criminal Justice Internship Program: Why Do Students Take It and Does It Improve Career Preparedness?,” Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 25(1), 2014.

Christopher Salvatore & Michael W. Markowitz. “Do Life Course Transitions and Social Bonds Influence Males and Females Differently? Gender Contrasts and Criminality,” Deviant Behavior, 35(8), 2014.

Christopher Salvatore, Michael W. Markowitz, & Christopher Kelly. “Assessing Public Confidence in the Criminal Justice System,” International Social Science Review, 88(1/2), 2013.

Christopher Salvatore. “Arrested Adolescent Offenders: A Study of Delayed Transitions to Adulthood.” LFB Scholarly Publications, 2013.

Christopher Salvatore & Brian J. Gorman. “Gender-Based Perceptions of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks: Implications for Outreach and Preparedness,” Security Journal, 24, 2012.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi. “Do Social Bonds Matter for Emerging Adults?” Deviant Behavior, 33(9), 2012.

Michael W. Markowitz & Christopher Salvatore. “Exploring Race Based Differences in Patterns of Life Course Criminality,” Deviant Behavior, 33(8), 2012.

Christopher Salvatore, Travis A. Taniguchi, & Wayne N. Welsh. “Is Emerging Adulthood Influencing Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy? Adding the Prolonged Adolescent Offender,” Western Criminological Review, 13 (1), 2012.

Travis Taniguchi & Christopher Salvatore. "Exploring the Relationship Between Drug and
Alcohol Treatment Facilities and Violent and Property Crime: A Socioeconomic Contingent
Relationship," Security Journal, 25, 2012.

Kimberly Houser, Christopher Salvatore, & Wayne Welsh. “Individual Level Predictors of Community Aftercare Completion,” The Prison Journal, 92 (1), 2012.

Christopher Salvatore, Matthew L. Hiller, Benta Samuelson, Jaime Henderson, & Elise White. “A Systematic Observational Study of a Juvenile Drug Court Judge,” Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 62 (4), 2011.

Christopher Salvatore, Jaime S. Henderson, Matthew L. Hiller, Elise White, & Benta Samuelson. “An Observational Study of Team Meetings and Status Hearings in a Juvenile Drug Court,” Drug Court Review, 7 (1), 2010.

Ralph Taylor, Christopher E. Kelly, & Christopher Salvatore. “Perceived Police Responsiveness to Local Troublesome Teens: Theoretical Relevance of Ecological Variation,” Policing & Society, 20 (2), 2010.

Steven Belenko, Richard Dembo, Matthew Rollie, Kristina Childs, & Christopher Salvatore. “Detecting, Preventing, and Treating Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescent Offenders: An Unmet Public Health Need,” American Journal of Public Health, 99 (6), 2009.

Steven Belenko, Richard Dembo, Doris Weiland, Matthew Rollie, Christopher Salvatore, Alexandra Hanlon, & Kristina Childs. “Recently Arrested Adolescents are at High Risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 35 (8), 2008.

Christopher Salvatore. “Perceptions and Sentencing: Public Attitudes and Sentencing Disparity,” The National Social Science Journal, 23 (2), 2005.

Michael W. Markowitz & Christopher Salvatore. “Changing Situational Decision Making Among
Offenders: A Preliminary Analysis,” Corrections Compendium, 30 (2), 2005.

Presentations

Venezia Michalsen, Christopher Salvatore, & Caitlyn Taylor, Reentry Courts: Supporting Transitions and Breaking the Cycle of Recidivism, Texas Association of Criminal Justice Educators, Texas, October 2020.

Christopher Salvatore, The Influence of Military Service on the Offending and Deviant Behaviors of Emerging Adults, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Antonio, TX, March 2020.

Christopher Salvatore, Reentry Courts: Supporting Transitions: How Courts Can Break the Cycle of Recidivism, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Antonio, TX, March 2020.

Christopher Salvatore, The Influence of Emerging Adulthood on the Risky And Dangerous
Behaviors of LGBT Populations, Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society,
Philadelphia, PA, February, 2020.

Christopher Salvatore, Venezia Michalsen, & Caitlyn Taylor, Participant Perception of the Role of Judges in Reentry Courts, Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, Williamsport, PA, June 2019.

Gabriel Rubin & Christopher Salvatore, Religion and the Criminal Behavior of Emerging Adults, Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, March 2019.

Venezia Michalsen, Christopher Salvatore, & Caitlyn Taylor, ReEntry Court Judges, The Key to the Court, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November, 2018.

Christopher Salvatore, Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood, Learning Lecture Series, Pequannock Township Public Library, Pompton Plains, NJ, September, 2018.

Christopher Salvatore & Venezia Michalsen, An Observational Study of Team Meetings in a ReEntry Court Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD, February 2018.

Gabriel Rubin & Christopher Salvatore, Spitting Bullets: Anger's Long-Ignored Role in Reactions to Terror: An Examination of College Students' Fear and Anger Responses to Terrorism Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society,Baltimore, MD, February 2018.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi, The Emerging Adulthood Gap: Linking Emerging
Adulthood and Criminological Theory. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society,Boston, MA, March 2016.

Gabriel Rubin & Christopher Salvatore, You Don’t Deserve to Be Here: Terrorism, Citizenship and Civil Death in Western Liberal Democracies. Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, Washington DC, November 2015.

Christopher Salvatore , Childhood Risk and Protective Factors and Offending During
Emerging Adulthood. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences,
Orlando, FL, March 2015.

Jessica Henry & Christopher Salvatore, Virtual Life Offender: An Exploratory Study. Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando, FL, March 2015.

Christopher Salvatore, Matthew Hiller, & Travis Taniguchi. Evaluation of the Temple University Department of Criminal Justice Internship Program: Why Do Students Take It? Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi. An Examination of Offending During Emerging Adulthood: The Emerging Adulthood Gap Thesis. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014.

Gabriel Rubin & Christopher Salvatore. Blacks vs. Whites: Perceptions of Effectiveness of Responses to Terrorism. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014.

Christopher Salvatore & Gabriel Rubin. Individual Level Predictors of Gender Based Responses to Terrorism. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Dallas, TX, March 2013.

Brian Gorman & Christopher Salvatore. The Politics of Biosecurity: Obstacles and Challenges to Public Health and Security. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Dallas, TX, March 2013.

Christopher Salvatore. Influence of Marriage and Parenthood on Emerging Adults Drug Use. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012.

Travis Taniguchi & Christopher Salvatore. “Exploring the Relationship Between Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities and Violent and Property Crime. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012.

Steven Belenko, Traci Rieckmann, Richard Dembo, Christopher Salvatore, & Kristina Childs. STD service availability and barriers for juvenile offenders: An organizational and staff perspective. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA, October 2012.

Michael W. Markowitz & Christopher Salvatore. Exploring Gender Based Differences in Life Course Offending. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY, February 2012.

Christopher Salvatore & Brian J. Gorman. Gender Based Perceptions of Biosecurity Threats. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, November 2011.

Brian J. Gorman & Christopher Salvatore. Confidence and Satisfaction: Responses to Biosecurity Threats. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, November 2011.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi. The Effectiveness of Age Graded Informal Social Controls for Emerging Adults. 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Providence, Rhode Island, October 2011.

Matthew Hiller & Christopher Salvatore. An Observational Study of Team Meetings and Status Hearing in a Juvenile Drug Court. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Washington DC, 2011.

Christopher Salvatore & Travis Taniguchi. Do Social Bonds and Turning Points Matter for Emerging Adults? Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, February 2011.

Christopher Salvatore. Race Based Differences in Life Course Offending Patterns. Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium, Temple University, April 2009.

Christopher Salvatore & Michael W. Markowitz. Exploring Race Based Differences in Life Course Criminality. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, MA, March 2009.

Christopher Salvatore & Wayne Welsh. The Emergence of the Arrested Adolescent Offender. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO, November 2008.

Christopher Salvatore, Doris Weiland, Steven Belenko, & Richard Dembo. The Effectiveness of Prior STI Intervention Services in a Non-Incarcerated Juvenile Population. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO, November 2008.

Steven Belenko, Kimberly Houser, & Christopher Salvatore: Co-Morbidity of Mental Health Disorders and Drug Abuse Among State Prison Inmates: Linkages to Treatment Services. Annual Meeting of Addiction Health Research Conference, Boston, MA, October 2008.

Christopher Salvatore, Matthew L. Hiller, Benta Samuelson, & Elise White: Juvenile Treatment Court: Program Impact and Services Delivery Model, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.

Kimberly Houser, Christopher Salvatore, & Wayne Welsh: Risk Factors that Predict Retention in Community Aftercare Following Correctional – Based Therapeutic Community Drug Treatment, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.

Benta Samuelson, Matthew L. Hiller, Elise White, & Christopher Salvatore: The Judge and Juvenile Drug Court, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.

Elise White, Matthew L. Hiller, Benta Samuelson, & Christopher Salvatore: The Influence of Family Involvement on the Progress of African American Boys, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.

Steven Belenko, Richard Dembo, Doris Weiland, & Christopher Salvatore: Determinants of Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Juvenile Offenders, Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting & Exposition, American Public Health Association, Washington DC, November 2007.

Christopher Salvatore & Christopher E. Kelly: Philadelphian’s Attitudes Towards the Criminal Justice System. Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.

Christopher Salvatore & Christopher E. Kelly. Incivilities and Confidence in the Criminal Justice System. Paper Presentation, Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, May 2006.

Kimberly Houser, Christopher Salvatore, & Wayne Welsh: The Influence of Individual Level Predictors on Aftercare Completion. Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, CA, November 2006.

Michael W. Markowitz & Christopher Salvatore. Making Rational Choices More Rational:’ Studying Decision Making in Social Context. Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY, February 2004.

Michael W. Markowitz, William E. Harver, & Christopher Salvatore. Studying the Factors that Affect Public Perceptions of the Appropriate Punishment of Serious Criminals. Paper Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, MA, March 2003.

Specialization

Emerging Adulthood, Youth Offending, Program Evaluation, Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Office Hours

Fall

Wednesday

9:45 am - 1:45 pm

Friday

9:45 am - 1:45 pm

Spring

Wednesday

6:45 am - 7:45 am

10:00 am - 11:45 pm

Friday

6:45 am - 7:45 am

10:00 am - 1:45 pm

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