Faculty

Peggy C. Bowen, Ph.D., C.T.S.

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Education

• Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Educational Psychology, 1979

• M.S.,  Texas A&M University, Sociology, 1975

• B.S.,   Texas A&M University, Psychology, 1971

Licenses and Certifications

• Licensed Psychologist, State of Oklahoma

• Certified Trauma Specialist

• Certified Instructor, Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officer’s Education and Training Commission

• Federal Emergency Management Agency Professional Development Certification

• National Institute of Health Review Board Member Certification

Chair, Alvernia University, Institutional Review Board

Courses Taught at Alvernia University

• CJ 203 Criminalistics

• CJ 216 Women and the Criminal Justice System

• CJ 218 Multicultural Issues in Criminal Justice

• CJ 221 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

• CJ 275 Criminology

• CJ 285 Victimology

• CJ 301 Organized Crime

• CJ 309 White Collar Crime

• CJ 377 Juvenile Justice System

• CJ 390 ST:  Criminal Profiling

• CJ 390 ST:  Forensic Psychology
• CJ 403: Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice

• PSY 101 Introductory Psychology, Honors

• PSY 430 Forensic Psychology

Research Interests

• Forensic Psychology

• Disasters/Trauma

• Research Issues

• Multicultural Issues

• Stress in Criminal Justice Professionals

Recent Publications

• Bowen, P.C. (2008).  Tribal Policing. [Review of the book Tribal policing:  Asserting sovereignty, seeking justice].  Policing:  An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.  September, 31, 3.

• Bowen, P.C. (2005).  Background checks.  In P.B. Gerstenfeld, Criminal justice (pp. 60-61).  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press.

Other Scholarly Works

• Bowen, P.C. (2007).An investigator’s manual for the Alvernia College Institutional Review Board.  Reading, PA:  Alvernia College.

• Consultant and quoted in Law Enforcement Contact with Native Americans chapter. (2006). Shusta, R.M., Levine, D.R., Wong, H.Z., & Harris, P.R. (2007).  Multicultural law enforcement:  Strategies for peacekeeping in a diverse society (4th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Pearson/Prentice Hall

Professional Memberships

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

• Alpha Phi Sigma

• Association of University Professors

• American Psychological Association

• Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists

• International Critical Incident Stress Foundation

• Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences

• Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators

Other

• Presentations at international, national, state, regional, and local venues.

• Interviews by media

• American Red Cross Mental Health Specialist

• Private Practice

• Route 222 Gang Prevention Initiative Steering Committee—City of Reading

• Public Safety Advisory Committee—City of Reading

• The 222 Corridor Anti-Gang Initiative