201 Front Ave SW Suite 200
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
616-331-7585
jcp@gvsu.edu
Office Hours:
M - F 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Jodi Petersen, Ph.D.
Title: Senior Researcher
Program: Community Research Institute
Bio
Dr. Jodi Petersen is the Senior Researcher in the Community Research Institute at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich. She is responsible for conducting community based research and evaluation.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in crime and justice from the University of Michigan and a Master’s and Doctorate in ecological community psychology from Michigan State University.
Petersen is a member of the Society for Community Research and Action, the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Society for Research on Child Development.
Petersen has previously taught in psychology and social action and writes about systems change in the juvenile justice system. Her past work has focused specifically on community level predictors of risk and protective factors for juvenile offenders. She has presented internationally at conferences on psychology, social justice, and criminology.
Selected publications include Validation of the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol (JSOAP-II) for predicting sexual and non-sexual crimes (Petersen, Davidson, Onifade, & Campbell, 2013), Engaged research in a university setting: results and reflections on three decades of a partnership to improve juvenile justice (Davidsion, Petersen, Hankins, & Winslow, 2010), Multilevel recidivism prediction: Incorporating neighborhood socioeconomic ecology in juvenile justice risk assessment (Onifade, Petersen, Bynum, & Davidson, 2011), and A comparative analysis of recidivism with propensity score matching of informal and formal juvenile probationers (Onifade, Wilkins, Davidson, Campbell, & Petersen, 2011).
