CURRICULUM VITAE Jose A. Torres Department of Sociology Louisiana State University 10B Stubbs Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Email: jtorres@lsu.edu Phone: (225): 578-0144 Professional Employment 2016 Present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University 2014 2016 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech 2013-2016 Research Assistant: Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, Virginia Tech. 2009 2012 Police Officer, Norfolk Police Department, Norfolk, Virginia. Education 2016 Ph.D., Sociology, Virginia Tech Dissertation Public Housing: Examining the Impact of Banishment and Community Policing. Committee: James Hawdon (Chair), Donald Shoemaker, Anthony Peguero, John Worrall Preliminary Exams: Race, Crime and Deviance 2009 M.A. in Criminal Justice, Norfolk State University 2007 B.A. in Sociology, Norfolk State University Research Interests Policing, Urban Social Control, Race & Criminal Justice, Sociology of Crime, Crime and Social Policy Publications (Peer-Reviewed) 2015 Torres, Jose. Race/Ethnicity and Stop-and-Frisk: Past, Present, Future. Sociology Compass 9(11): 931-939. DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12322 2015 Torres, Jose. Predicting Perceived Police Effectiveness in Public Housing: Police Contact, Police Trust, and Police Responsiveness. Policing and Society. doi:10.1080/10439463.2015.1077837
Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries 2017 Torres, Jose. (2017). A Cop s Transition into Academia: Negotiating Personal and Community Well-Being. In: Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Conducting Deeply Personal Research in Health. A.C.H. Nowakowski & J.E. Sumerau, eds. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Prepared for publication in 2017. 2015 Torres, Jose. Sociology of Crime and Deviance. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Wesley Jennings (Ed.). DOI: 10.1002/9781118519639.wbecpx226 Publications (Revise and Resubmit) 2016 Torres, Jose, Jacob Apkarian, and James Hawdon. Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows. Social Sciences 2016 Kristian Lum, Samarth Swarup, Stephen Eubank, James Hawdon, and Jose Torres. Addressing the Race Gap in Incarceration Rates: An Agent Based Model." Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research. Papers in Progress 2016 Torres, Jose and Jacob Apkarian. Spatial Deterrence in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Specific Deterrence. Working Draft Technical Reports 2015 Torres, Jose. Bans and Trespass Arrests in Public Housing: Resident Perceptions of Police Effectiveness. Technical report for the Chief of Police and Assistant Chiefs of Police in the Norfolk Police Department (Norfolk, VA). Blacksburg, VA: Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. Grants and Fellowships 2015 Denied. Dissertation Improvement Grant. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Public Housing: Examining the Impact of Banishment and Community Policing. National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Program, submitted February 5, 2015. 2007-2009 Graduate Fellow: Criminal Justice Department, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia. Presentations 2015 Torres, Jose. The Effects of Trespass Arrests and Bans in Public Housing: Evaluating Crime Reductions and Resident Perceptions Presented to the Chief of Police and Assistant Chiefs of Police of the Norfolk Police Department, Norfolk, Virginia.
2015 Torres, Jose. Public Housing: Social Justice in Policing Through Banishment Evaluation. Paper presented at the annual Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention s Student Research Symposium on Violence Prevention, February 8, Blacksburg Virginia. 2015 Torres, Jose. Assessing the Accuracy of Resident Perceptions of Police Effectiveness in Public Housing. Paper presentation at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 3, Orlando, FL. 2014 Torres, Jose. Banishment: Deterring Drugs and Violent Crime in Public Housing. Roundtable presentation at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 19, San Francisco, CA. 2014 Torres, Jose. Panelist for the session Write Where it Hurts 2: Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Doing Deeply Personal Research at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, April 5, Charlotte, NC. 2014 Torres, Jose. Public Housing: Preliminary Data on Resident Perceptions of a No- Trespass Policy. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, February 18, Philadelphia, PA. 2013 Torres, Jose. Public Housing: Examining the Enforcement of a No-Trespass Policy. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 22, Atlanta, Georgia. Poster Presentations 2014 Lum, Kristian, Swarup, Samarth, Hawdon, James and Jose Torres. Modeling the Incarceration Epidemic. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, November 20, San Francisco, CA. 2014 Hawdon, James, Rasanen, Pekka, Oksanen, Atte, Ryan, John and Jose Torres. Social Solidarity and Wellbeing After Critical Incidents: Four Cases of Mass Shootings. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Forum on Global Engagement, March 27, Blacksburg, VA. Organizer Professional Meetings 2014 Panel chair of Race/Ethnicity at the annual Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Undergraduate and Graduate Research Symposium, March 20, 2014, Blacksburg, Virginia. 2014 Panel chair of Perceptions of Crime and Police at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, February 18, Philadelphia, PA.
Awards 2015 Norfolk State University Outstanding Alumni Award 2014 Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Outstanding Graduate Research Award 2012 United States Attorney s Office Public Service Award 2012 Norfolk Police Department Police Commendation Award, 2nd Quarter, 2011 2012 Norfolk Police Department Officer of the 2nd Quarter, 2011 2011 Youth Leadership Academy Certificate of Achievement (Norfolk, VA) 2010 NSU Graduate Student Association Certificate of Achievement Professional Service 2014-2015 Division on People of Color and Crime Membership Committee, American Society of Criminology. 2015 Policing and Society, Journal Manuscript Review. 2015 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal Manuscript Review. 2014 Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal Manuscript Review. Professional Memberships 2014-Present 2014-Present 2012-Present Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society American Society of Criminology Campus/Departmental Talks 2015 Panel member. Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Brown Bag Publication Takes Coordination, October 30, 2015. 2015 Guest Lecture on Stop-and-Frisk for Intro to African American Studies, Race Class, Gender, Sexualities, Sociology of Policing, Systems of Justice at Virginia Tech. 2014 Speaker. Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Brown Bag Teaching and Technology in the Classroom, November 07, 2014. Campus/Departmental Service 2016 Faculty Senate, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Louisiana State University. 2013-2014 Virginia Tech Department of Sociology Department Executive Committee 2013-2014 College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Graduate Student Panel. Panel on advising undergraduate students about graduate school. Virginia Tech, November 12, 2013, and October 9, 2014. 2013 Mentor. Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Program, Virginia Tech
Teaching Experience Undergraduate Level: Criminology (online) Criminology (face-to-face) Deviant Behavior (online) Deviant Behavior (face-to-face) 2012-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant: Criminology, Diversity and Community Engagement, Intro to African American Studies, Intro to Sociology, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Inequality, Virginia Tech. Consulting 2015 Norfolk Police Department, Norfolk, Virginia. 2015 Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority, Norfolk, Virginia.