Criminal Justice and Criminology
Faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology who have been featured in our Faculty Scholarship Showcase.
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Paul F. Joyce, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Chair | Criminal Justice and Criminology
Paul F. Joyce was a police officer for over thirty-one years, including twenty-eight years with the Boston Police Department, policing street gangs and developing strategies to address youth gang violence. He also served as superintendent overseeing special operations, criminal investigations and training and education.
In 2017, Dr. Joyce earned his Ph.D. in criminology and justice policy from Northeastern University. His dissertation, “Street Gang Membership in Boston: A Life Course Perspective,” focused on 28 former Boston gang members active from the late 1980s through 1990s, examining their life experiences from childhood through adulthood.
Before coming to Salve Regina, Dr. Joyce was the director of the Homeland Security Studies Graduate Program at Endicott College. In his role at Salve, he teaches policing, oversees faculty and directs curriculum development, assessment and evaluation, advising, budget and strategic planning.
Myunghoon Roh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Criminal Justice and Criminology
Myunghoon Roh has been an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, formerly Administration of Justice, since 2021. Before he came to Newport, he was an assistant professor of social sciences at Texas A&M University in San Antonio. He received his Bachelor’s degree in English from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, and holds a Masters of Public Administration from Brown University in Providence, RI, and a Ph.D. in Criminology and Justice Policy from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His dissertation was titled A Cross-National Study of Youth Offending: Toward an Integration of Individual and Macro Theory Crime. His research interests include juvenile delinquency, comparative criminology, and criminology theory. His research has been published in Violence and Victims, BMC Public Health, and The International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience.