David Mazeika

Office: Social Sciences Building 333
Email: mazeikad@tcnj.edu
Phone: 609-771-2289

David Mazeika (Professor M.) earned his PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland. While at Maryland he served as an advisor to the Cambridge University Police Executive Program, training police officers in Jaipur, India on geospatial crime analysis techniques. Prior to joining TCNJ, he served as a research analyst in the Washington DC Statistical Analysis Center, where he helped secure over $300,000 in grant funds from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Working closely with the Metropolitan Police Department, DC Attorney General, DC Superior Court, Pretrial Services Agency, and the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, he completed a number of process and impact evaluations on juvenile and criminal justice programs including fugitive safe surrender, teen and truancy court diversion, victim-offender mediation, and electronic monitoring.

Publications / Reports

• Mazeika, D., & McCann, W. (2023). The ability of place-based risk factors to predict hate crime. Security Journal, 1-19.
• Mazeika, David. 2023. Defunding the police through shared service agreements: The impact on cost savings, staffing, and public safety using a bias-corrected synthetic control analysis. Criminology & Public Policy.
• Groff, Elizabeth E. and Cory Haberman (editors). The Study of Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook. 2023. Mazeika, David, Chapter 4: Spatial Data, Topic 3: Coordinate Systems, Projections and Geocoding (address locators). Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
• Mazeika, David. 2022. A Content Analysis of Police Shared Service Agreements. Policing: A Journal Of Policy And Practice.
• Mazeika, David. 2022. The Effect of Unreported Gun Related Violent Crime on Crime Hot Spots. Security Journal.
• Mazeika, David; Rich, Kyle; Stack, Hailey; Sperling, Zachery; Doyle, Conor; and Samihah Khan. 2021. Research in Brief: Police Chief Selection Policies in New Jersey. The Police Chief Magazine.
• Mazeika, David; and Lorena Uriarte. 2019. The Near Repeats of Gun Violence Using Acoustic Triangulation Data. Security Journal. Security Journal 32 (4), 369-389
• Mazeika, David; and Sumit Kumar. 2017. Do Crime Hot Spots Exist in Developing Countries? Evidence from India. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(1), 45-61.
• Mazeika, David; and David Summerton. 2017. The Impact of Geocoding Method on the Positional Accuracy of Residential Burglaries Reported to Police. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. 40(2), 459-470.
• Harris, Heather; Polans, Dan; Mazeika, David; and Lawrence Sherman. 2017. Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment: A 20 Year Follow-up. Journal of Experimental Criminology. 12
  (4), 599-608.
• Mazeika, David. 2014. What is an Evidence-Based Program and How to Recognize It? Literature in Crime: A Review of Current Developments in Criminological and Criminal Justice Research. Maine Department of Corrections Research Unit.
• Mazeika, David. 2013. The Electronic Monitoring of Juveniles in the District of Columbia: A Process and Impact Evaluation. Report to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
• Goliday, Sean and David Mazeika. 2013. Reentry in the District of Columbia: Supporting Returning Citizens’ Transitions into the Community. Report to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
• Posick, Chad; Rocque, Michael; Whiteacre, Kevin; and David Mazeika. 2012. Examining metal,theft in context: An opportunity theory approach. Justice Research and Policy, 14(2).
• Mazeika, David; Bartholomew, Brad; Distler, Mike; Thomas, Kyle; Greenman, Sarah; and Stephanie Pratt. 2010. Trends in police research: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2007 literature. Police Practice and Research, 11(6).
• Bartholomew, Brad; Gibbs, Jennifer; Mazeika, David; Ahlin, Eileen; Joseph, Patricia; and Noah Miller. 2009. Trends in police research: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2006 literature. Police Practice and Research, 10(4).

Press/References

• Riley Yates. May 24, 2023. N.J. towns quietly paid $87M to settle lawsuits against cops. Inside the secretive deals. NJ.com.
• David Mazeika. June 5, 2022. Some N.J. towns should share police services. It would save us money. The Star Ledger.
• Liz Leyden. May 24, 2021. The Mazeika Files. TCNJ Magazine.
• David Mazeika. May 16, 2021. TCNJ researchers investigate NJ police chief hiring. Asbury Park Press.
• Andrew Ford. May 16, 2021. NJ hires police chiefs only from within. Here’s why it could be a problem. Asbury Park Press.
• David Mazeika and Wesley McCann. May 6, 2021. Want people to trust the police? Get departments to share their data. The Star Ledger.
• Andrew Ford. December 30, 2019. Deadly NJ police chases kill innocent victims, catch few crooks. The USA Today.
• Andrew Ford. July 30, 2019. NJ police tests fail women recruits. Here’s how it hurts your safety and your wallet. The USA Today.

Awarded Grants

• 2016-2018
  The Trenton Violence Reduction Strategy (TVRS)
  The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office
  $1,400,000
• 2013-2014
  “Synthetic Drug Testing: Two Steps Forward, and Two Steps Back”
  Applicant and Research Assistant
  Bureau of Justice Statistics State of Justice Statistics
  $60,000
• 2012-2013
  “The Mapping of Reentrants and Services in the District of Columbia”
  Principal Investigator
  Bureau of Justice Statistics State of Justice Statistics
  Grant BJS-2012-3125
  $60,000
• 2011-2012
  “The Electronic Monitoring of Juveniles in the District of Columbia: A Process and Impact Evaluation”
  Principal Investigator
  Bureau of Justice Statistics State of Justice Statistics
  Grant 2011-BJ-CX-K025
  $60,000
• 2010-2011
  “Measuring Recidivism in the District of Columbia”
  Project Manager
  Bureau of Justice Statistics State of Justice Statistics
  Grant BJ-CX-K009
  $60,000