Brian Lawton

Brian Lawton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His research interests include spatial patterns of crime, public health and their intersection. His work has included spatial examinations of police use of force; stop, question and frisk, and spatial distributions of crime. His work has been published in such journals as Research in Crime and Delinquency, Quantitative Criminology and Justice Quarterly.

He is currently serving as the Executive Officer of the PhD in Criminal Justice offered by the Graduate Center and housed at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.