Kyung-Seok Choo, Ph.D.

Biography

Kyungseok Choo, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Economic Crime and Director of the M.S. program in Financial Crime and Compliance Management.

As a Senior Research Associate at the WestEd Justice and Prevention Research Center, he is currently leading a federal project to develop and test Juvenile Drug Court Guidelines funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). He has also involved in numerous federal/state/foreign government funded projects: 1) a National Institute of Justice funded study for a school safety intelligence fusion center in Miami-Dale, 2) Department of Education’s Louisiana Safe and Successful Schools Initiative, 3) a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) funded research on Sex Offender Authentication, 4) a Korean Institute of Criminology funded transnational human trafficking study, 5) the Massachusetts Shannon Community Safety Initiative, and 6) a BJA-funded research on Identity Fraud Trends and Patterns.