David Myers, Ph.D.

David Myers Headshot
Professor
Chair, Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Department
Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences
Education

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology and Criminal Justice; May 24, 1999

Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
Master of Science in Administration of Justice; August 12, 1994
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice; December 16, 1989

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About David

Dr. Myers has taught more than 30 different courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, specializing in classes on research methods and quantitative analysis, juvenile justice and delinquency, and criminal justice policy, planning, and evaluation. He has published 3 books and over 70 journal articles, book chapters, or other scholarly works, and his scholarship has appeared in such journals as Criminology and Public Policy, Crime & Delinquency, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Criminal Justice Studies, and Federal Probation.

Dr. Myers currently is the 1st Vice President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and is a Past-President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is a subject matter expert for the Crime & Justice Research Alliance, a certified reviewer for Crimesolutions.gov and the OJJDP Model Programs Guide, and is the Editor of Routledge Studies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Editor and columnist for EBP Quarterly.

Prior to joining the University of New Haven in 2016, Dr. Myers was a Professor with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). He served as Dean’s Associate in the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research, Interim Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at IUP, Interim Executive Director of the IUP Research Institute, and Interim Director of the IUP Murtha Institute for Homeland Security.

Recent Scholarly Activity
Recent Publications

“An Experimental Test of the Contagious Fire Thesis in Policing”
John DeCarlo, Eric Dlugolenski, and David L. Myers
Journal of Criminal Justice (2024, Vol. 93)

“Evidence-Based Innovations in Juvenile Probation”
David L. Myers and Kelly Orts
The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy (2024)

“A Process and Impact Evaluation of a Federal Drug Court”
Joseph Dule and David L. Myers
EBP Quarterly (2023, Vol. 7, No. 4)

“Preliminary Study of Restrictive Housing Efforts at Four Kentucky Institutions: Treating Cognitive Distortions and Producing Behavioral Change”
David L. Myers and Lada Kloi Gasparac
EBP Quarterly (2022, Vol. 7, No. 3)

“Assessing the Impact of the District of Connecticut’s Support Court using Propensity Score Analysis”
Joseph Dule, David L. Myers, & Jonathan Kringen
Federal Probation (2021, Vol. 85, No. 3)

“Juvenile Courts”
Kelly Orts & David L. Myers
Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology, Oxford University Press (2021)

“An Evaluation of the Newhallville Safe Neighborhoods Initiative”
Timothy K. Daty, David L. Myers, & Jonathan Allen Kringen
EBP Quarterly (2021, Vol. 6, No. 3)

“An Evaluation of Federal Support Court in Connecticut”
Joseph Dule, David Myers, Kevin Earl, Mengbei Wang, & Timothy Daty
EBP Quarterly (2021, Vol. 6, No. 1)

"Red-Flagging the Leagues: The U.S. Sports Most in Danger from Match-Fixing"
Declan Hill, Michele Vittorio, Christopher Rasmussen, and David L. Myers
Sport in Society (2020, Vol. 23, No. 11)

"Enhancing Community Safety through Urban Demolition: An Exploratory Study of Detroit, Michigan"
Joshua M. Regan and David L. Myers
Justice Policy Journal (2020, Vol. 17, No. 1)

"Supervision of the Domestic Violence Offender: An Exploratory Study"
Mathilda Spencer, John A. Anderson, and David L. Myers
Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society (2020, Vol. 17, No.1)

"Using Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships to Enhance Evidence-Based Probation Services"
David L. Myers, Daniel R. Lee, and Dennis M. Giever
National Association of Probation Executives: Executive Exchange (Summer 2020)

"An Evaluation of Transforming Youth Justice: A Leadership Development Program"
Kevin J. Earl & David L. Myers
Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services (2019; )

"Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhoods in Connecticut: A Youth Opportunity Initiative"
Sara R. Jeffries, David L. Myers, Jonathan A. Kringen & Ronald W. Schack
Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2019; Vol. 21, No. 4)

Recent Funded Grants and Contracts

“Evaluation of the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) in New Haven, CT”
$788,241 grant from the National Institute of Justice (01/01/2025-12/31/2029)
David L. Myers (PI); Kevin Barnes-Ceeney and Maria Tcherni-Buzzeo (Co-PIs)

“An Evaluation of Reentry Courts in Connecticut”
$30,000 contract from U.S. Probation Office, Connecticut District (09/21-12/22)
David L. Myers, Principal Investigator

"Specialty Court Evaluation"
$40,000 contract from U.S. Probation Office, Connecticut District (10/17-10/19)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"Connection, Inc. Research Partnership"
$50,000 contract from The Connection, Inc. (10/17-10/18)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"Project Safe Neighborhoods: Connecticut 2016"
$30,000 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (10/17-09/19)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"CSI-University of New Haven Research Partnership"
$100,000 contract from Community Solutions, Inc. (10/17-10/18)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"Project Safe Neighborhoods: Connecticut 2014"
$30,000 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (10/16-09-17)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"Newhallville Safe Neighborhoods Initiative: Byrne Criminal Justice Innovations"
$90,000 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (10/15-09/18)
Jonathan A. Kringen and David L. Myers, Co-Principal Investigators

"Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative, Smart Supervision: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities"
$637,634 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to Somerset County, PA (10/15-09/18)
David L. Myers, Daniel R. Lee, and Dennis M. Giever, Consultants/Program Evaluators

Recent Conference Presentations

“Police Use of Force: The Contagion Effect and the Role of Officer Fatigue”
John DeCarlo, Eric Dlugolenski, and David L. Myers
Chicago, IL, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Annual Meeting, March 2024

“Applicability of Self-Control Theory in Predicting Cybercrime Offending and Victimization: A Systematic Review”
Jasmine Kaur and David L. Myers
Chicago, IL, ACJS Annual Meeting, March 2024

“Revalidating Federal Risk Assessment Instruments: Examining Relationships between Risk Factors, Risk Instruments, and Criminogenic Outcomes”
Logan Jude DiStasio and David L. Myers
Philadelphia, PA, American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting, November 2023

“Project Management”
David L. Myers
Training presented to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, October 2023

“Project Management”
David L. Myers
Training presented to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, June 2023

“A Randomized Controlled Trial Examining Police Officer Reflexive Shooting”
John DeCarlo, Eric Dlugolenski, and David L. Myers
National Harbor, MD, ACJS Annual Meeting, March 2023

“Predicting Success in a Federal Drug Court”
Joseph Dule and David L. Myers
National Harbor, MD, ACJS Annual Meeting, March 2023

“Assessing the Impact of Federal Support Court Using Propensity Score Analysis”
Joseph Dule, David Myers, and Jonathan Kringen
Las Vegas, NV, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Annual Meeting, March 2022

Research Interests

Criminal Justice Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Crime and Delinquency Prevention, Research Methods and Quantitative Analysis

In the Media

In the Media

David Myers, professor of criminal justice, was quoted from his 2022 interview with TIME as saying that curfews for children and teenagers do not have a significant impact on reducing crime.

In the Media

John DeCarlo, professor and director of the Master’s Program in Criminal Justice, and David Myers, professor of criminal justice, co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Criminal Justice that studied contagious fire, a situation in which officers may discharge their firearms in response to the stimulus of gunfire from fellow officers rather than based on an independent assessment of the threat.

In the Media

David Myers, professor of criminal justice, discusses teen curfews. They often do not work, as most criminal behavior teens commit happens during the day.

In the Media

David Myers, professor of criminal justice, comments that early-intervention programs are more effective than curfews for curtailing illegal activity by minors.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, comments on research that shows curfews have very little effect on preventing crimes committed by juveniles.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, was mentioned in this op-ed regarding his research on the effectiveness of curfews for juveniles.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, comments that curfews for those under 17 years old now imposed in Baltimore may do little to prevent juvenile crimes.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, comments on the impact curfews have on juveniles as a crime prevention measure.

In the Media

David Myers, chair of criminal justice, says multiple factors, including the 'Great Resignation' for many professionals across the nation, are causing a shortage in police officers.

In the Media

John DeCarlo, professor of criminal justice, and David Myers, chair of criminal justice, are working with the Farmington Police Department and several other departments to analyze police-involved shootings and some of the variables in officer responses.

In the Media

David Myers, professor, and chair of criminal justice, comments on the importance of parents working with schools, the police, and community agencies and taking an active role in monitoring their children's social media accounts.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, had his 2003 paper 'The Recidivism of Violent Youths in Juvenile and Adult Court: A Consideration of Selection Bias' used to support a bill for juvenile justice reform before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.

In the Media

David Myers, professor and chair of criminal justice, comments that rehab programs have been impacted by the pandemic are playing a role in the rise of juvenile crime.