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Chair and Associate Professor

Egbert Zavala is a Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. He is an El Paso native and Â鶹¹ÙÍø alum, and earned his PhD in Sociology from Kansas State University. His research areas include intimate partner violence, testing criminological theories, victimology/victimization, and deviance. His publications appear in Journal of Family Violence, Crime & Delinquency, Violence & Victims, Journal of Crime and Justice, among others.

Classes Taught:

• CRIJ 3300 - Applied Research Methods in CJ
• CRIJ 3313 - Criminology
• CRIJ 3321 - Family Violence
• CRIJ 4317 - Victimology
• CRIJ 4318 - Violence in America
• CRIJ 3308 - Juvenile Justice
• CRIJ 4314 - Women in Criminal Justice
• CRIJ 4390 - Advanced Concepts in Criminal Justice: Deviance
• CRIJ 5310 - Advanced Criminological Theory
• CRIJ 5341 - Violence and Victimization

Documents

Publications

Target congruence theory and Latino youth victimization

Applying Differential Coercion and Social Support Theory to Intimate Partner Violence

Applying Differential Coercion and Social Support Theory to Police Officers' Misconduct

The role of religious coping on problematic alcohol consumption by police officers
 

A multi-theoretical framework to explain same-sex intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization: a test of social learning, strain, and self-control