Dr. Sue-Ming Yang
Assistant Professor
Office: 1208 Urban Life Building
Phone: (404) 413-1021
Email: syang@gsu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, 2007 (With Certificate Issued by Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation)
Research Interests
- place-based criminology
- experimental and innovative research methods
- longitudinal relationship between disorder and violence
- international terrorism
- psychology and crime
- juvenile delinquency
- community context of crime
- qualitative research
Publications
- Yang, Sue-Ming and Laura Wyckoff. (2010). Does the Order of Victimization Questions Affect Survey Responses?: A Randomized Experimental Study. Journal of Experimental Criminology.
- Groff, Elizabeth, David Weisburd, and Sue-Ming Yang (2010). Is it Important to Examine Crime Trends at a Local "Micro" Level?: A Longitudinal Analysis of Street to Street Variability in Crime Trajectories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
- Yang, Sue-Ming. (2009). Assessing the Spatial-temporal Relationship between Disorder and Violence. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
- LaFree, G., Sue-Ming Yang, & Martha Crenshaw. (2009). International cooperation, not unilateral policies may be the best counterterrorist strategy. In Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals from the American Society of Criminology Conference. Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth. (pp.121-128).
- LaFree, Gary, Sue-Ming Yang and Martha Crenshaw. (2009). Trajectories of Terrorism: Attack Patterns of Foreign Groups that Have Targeted the United States, 1970 to 2004. Journal of Criminology and Public Policy, 8(3), 445-473.
- Lum, Cynthia and Sue-Ming Yang. (2005). “Why Do Evaluation Researchers in Crime and Justice Choose Non-experimental Methods?” Journal of Experimental Criminology 1(2):1-22.
- Weisburd, David, Shawn Bushway, Cynthia Lum, and Sue-Ming Yang. (2004). “Invariability and Variability of Crime at Place: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle.” Criminology 42(2): 283-321.
- Weisburd, David, Cynthia Lum and Sue-Ming Yang. (2004). “The Criminal Career of Places: A Longitudinal Study.” Final Report. National Institute of Justice Grant Number 2001-IJ-CX-0022. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/207824.pdf
- Weisburd, David, Cynthia Lum and Sue-Ming Yang. (2003). “When Can We Conclude that Treatments or Programs ‘Don’t Work?’” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences: 587, 31-48.
Current Research Projects
- “Risk Evaluation of Terrorism in South East Asia.” National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. ($30,149)
- “Using Global Terrorism Data to Model Counter Terrorism Policies in Sri Lanka.” National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. ($22,500)
- “Deterrence or Brutalization: The Effect of Governmental Interference on Domestic Terrorism. Using Tamil Tigers as an Example.” National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. ($33,000)
- Explaining Developmental Trajectories at Places: A Study of ‘Crime Waves’ and ’Crime Drops’ at Micro Units of Geography. (Co-authored with David Weisburd and Elizabeth Groff) National Institute of Justice Grant ($270,694). (PI: Dr. David Weisburd). University of Maryland.
- Does the Campbell Systematic Review Process for Counter-Terrorism Strategies Exclude Relevant Research?” (Co-authored with Cynthia Lum)
Courses Taught
- Criminology
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Research Methods
- Statistics