Karen Gordon
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Mail code: 2111Campus: Otheraz
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Karen Gordon joined the College Research and Evaluation Services Team (CREST) in 2021 as a Research Scientist. Her expertise in qualitative research methodologies, quantitative analysis, and interest in program evaluation afford her the opportunity serve as an external and internal evaluator on projects funded through the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, Arizona Department of Health Services, and local non-profit organizations such as one-n-ten.
Dr. Gordon led a team at ASU to create the comprehensive, case-study driven 2023 Arizona Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) Change in Arizona Communities Playbook. This playbook serves as a resource for community organizations and individuals who wish to incorporate PSE strategies into their public health interventions. She also served as a partner for the Arizona Resilience Assessment report. These resources were created in partnership with the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) for the Arizona Health Improvement Plan (AzHIP).
Dr. Gordon has been faculty in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice since 2018. Her research and teaching interests in this area focus on social control, stigmatization, punishment, sex crimes, victimology, intimate partner violence, homicide, health consequences of victimization, crime victim health promotion and behavior, violence prevention, race, gender, and intersectional identities. She teaches courses on law and social control, research methods, victimization, race and crime, sex crimes, mass shootings, media and crime, intimate partner violence, and gender and crime. Dr. Gordon is an ACUE certified college instructor.
While pursuing her Masters in Public Health, Dr. Gordon interned with the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. At ACESDV, she worked with the organization to provide high-quality background research for sexual violence prevention trainings including the role of public health in violence prevention efforts, capacity building, and houselessness and sexual violence. She also contributed community needs assessment toolkits.
- Ph.D. Sociology, University of Arizona
- M.P.H. University of Arizona
- M.A. Sociology, University of Arizona
- B.A. Sociology and History, Women's Studies minor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gordon, K.E. (2021). Mass shootings. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
Gordon, K.E. (2018). Sociology of murder. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
Gordon, K.E. (2013). The registered sex offender population as a marker of social disorganisation. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52(5), 547-542.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 515 | Seminar in Women and Crime |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 515 | Seminar in Women and Crime |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 408 | Drugs and Crime |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRJ 204 | Juvenile Justice |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRJ 408 | Drugs and Crime |
| CRJ 408 | Drugs and Crime |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRJ 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRJ 408 | Drugs and Crime |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 461 | Intimate-Partner Violence |
| CRJ 461 | Intimate-Partner Violence |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 406 | Sex Crimes |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRJ 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CRJ 306 | Race, Ethnicity, Crime |
| CRJ 302 | Research Methods |
| CRJ 305 | Gender,Crime&Criminal Justice |
| CRJ 598 | Special Topics |
| CRJ 598 | Special Topics |
| CRJ 394 | Special Topics |
| CRJ 394 | Special Topics |
| CRJ 302 | Research Methods |
William K. Bunis Graduate Student Instructor Award of Excellence in Sociology, University of Arizona, 2010
American Criminological Society
American Sociological Association
Reviewer for the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology 2018-present
Area Editor in areas of Social Control and Law and Society for Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (TRAILS) 2018-2024