Criminal Justice/ECI Faculty

Donald J. Rebovich, Ph.D.

Acting Ex Dir ECJ

Biography

Donald J Rebovich, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the Economic Crime Investigation Program at Utica College. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) of Utica College. (See: www.cimip.org )

Before coming to Utica College, Prof. Rebovich served as research director for the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the American Prosecutors Research Institute. At NW3C he was responsible for directing the national analysis of Internet crime report data generated by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center and directing the National Public Survey on White Collar Crime. He is the author of Dangerous Ground: The World of Hazardous Waste Crime, which presented the results of the first empirical study of environmental crime and its control in the United States. He is also the assistant editor of the Journal of Economic Crime Management. His background includes research in economic crime victimization, white collar crime prosecution, and multijurisdictional task force development.

Prof. Rebovich has served as advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice on tribal technology and information sharing, and on environmental crime control. He obtained his B.S. degree in Psychology from the College of New Jersey and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.

Recent accomplishments:

Speaking Presentation - A Sequence of Identity Theft Methods Used in Organized Crime Groups, 2008 American Society of Criminology Conference, Saint Louis, November 14, 2008

Speaking Presentation - Hiding in Plain Site: The Sex Offender Authentication Project, National Law Center for Children and Families Conference, Confronting the Challenge of Sexual Exploitation Crimes, Orlando, Florida January 21, 2009

Appointed to The Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel of the American National Standards Institutive on the Development of Standards for Identity Theft Research, February 24, 2009

Appointed to American Society of Criminology Committee on Criminal Justice Teaching Proficiency

Appointed to Editorial Board of the Journal of Victims and Offenders (Routledge Publishers)

Awarded U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to study sex offenders who abscond from sex offender registration/monitoring programs (“The Sex Offender Authentication Research Project”)