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Graduate Research Assistant |
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Vivian is currently assisting with research projects under the supervision of Dr. Bichler. These include the Riverside County Youth Accountability Team (YAT), the Problem Identification Project (PIP) an Evaluation of the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing , and Police Action Counseling Team (PACT). Vivian is a graduate student with the Department of Criminal Justice, CSUSB. Her primary area of interest is juvenile corrections and the sociological, psychological, and emotional factors that lead to juvenile crime. She is also currently working at Riverside Juvenile Hall as a group counselor. She would eventually like to pursue her Ph.D. and teach at University in California . |
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Curriculum
Vita |
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2004 - present |
M.A. |
Criminal
Justice (currently enrolled)
California State University, San Bernardino
Focus of program: Issues in Corrections
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2004 |
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Certificate in Administration of Justice
Imperial Valley College, Imperial, CA |
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2002 |
B.A. |
Psychology and Spanish, minor in Chicano Studies, University of California, Davis
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2005 - present |
Group Counselor I
Riverside County Probation
Riverside Juvenile Hall
Riverside, CA
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2004 - present |
Research Assistant
Center for Criminal Justice Research
California State University, San Bernardino
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Youth Accountability Team (YAT) Riverside County
Research Assistant
An examination of delinquent youth movement patterns that attempts to forecast future criminal activity based on those patterns. Project includes field data collection, data cleaning and analysis, generating maps to view movement patterns or pathways, and report writing.
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Problem Identification Project (PIP) an Evaluation of the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing
The Goldstein Awards recognize innovative and effective POP projects that have achieved measurable success in resolving a specific problem faced by police and the community. The focus of the evaluation is to determine if the quality of the submissions has suffered in recent years due to a reduction in funding for POP programs by the federal government.
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Police Action Counseling Team (PACT)
Project-Riverside County
An examination of a multi-agency program that dispatches a
counseling team to domestic violence and other
traumatic police calls for service where minors are present.
Field data collection included the use of global positioning systems (GPS)
and site assessments to measure spatial distances to services
as a variable of program success or failure. Project also
included data cleaning, analysis, and report writing.
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Employment History
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2002 - 2004
2002
2001 - 2002
2001 - 2002
1999 - 2000
2001-2002
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Case Manager I
Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program
Project CAMINO (Creating Avenues for Migrant Individuals
Needing Opportunities)
El Centro, CA
Teacher’s Assistant
Chicano 50—Introduction to Chicano Culture
Instructor: Emma García
University of California, Davis
Research Assistant
The Maintenance of Spanish in a Small Border Town
Data collection, statistical analysis, and presentation
Project presented at the 2002 UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference and Mentorship for Undergraduate Research in Agriculture, Letters, and Science
Dr. Cecilia Colombi and Francisco X. Alarcón, Advisor
Spanish and Classics Department
University of California, Davis
Transcriber
Project Armistead
Transcribed Jewish-Sephardic Music
Spanish and Classics Department
University of California, Davis
Spanish Tutor for Native Speakers
2001-2002 Spanish and Classics Department
University of California, Davis
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Awards
2005
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Arrowhead Credit Union Scholarship |
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Center for Criminal Justice Research
