Olena Antonaccio

Professor
Director of Criminology and Criminal Justice MS/Certificate Program

Phone:
(305) 284-2075
Locator Code:
2030
 
About
Career

Education

2008Ph.D. Sociology, North Carolina State University
2001 Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
1999B.A. Criminal Justice, Lees-McRae College
1998B.A. Foreign Languages and Literature, Lviv State University

LIST OF SPECIALTIES: Crime and Deviance, Sociological Theory, Survey Research, Cross-national Research

LIST OF SPECIALTIES: Crime and Deviance, Sociological Theory, Survey Research, Cross-national Research

Professional Experience

2008 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Miami
2003 - 2008Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University
2001 - 2003Adjunct Instructor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Lees-McRae College
1999 - 2000Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Honors & Acknowledgements

Graduate Dean’s List, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 1999-2001
1999 Class Valedictorian, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, 1999
Criminal Justice Award, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, 1999
Calvin Lindsey Academic Scholarship, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, 1998
International Presidential Scholarship, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, 1997-1999
Diploma with Honors, Lviv State University, Lviv, Ukraine, 1998

Conferences & Events

2017
Cognitive Decision Making, Situational Awareness, and Cyber Security Behaviors in a Cross-National Context: Evidence from Israel and the United States | Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA
Olena Antonaccio, Eric Louderback, Eric, Tamar Berenblum, and David Maimon
2017
Strain, Control, and Unexplored Community Characteristics | Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA
Botchkovar, Ekaterina, Olena Antonaccio, and Lorine Hughes
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Memberships

American Sociological Association (Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance)
American Society of Criminology
Southern Sociological Society
Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
Research
Olena Antonaccio is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology. Her areas of specialty are crime, social control, and sociological theory. Her research interests include empirical tests and the development of theories of crime and victimization and their application to various problem areas such as cybersecurity, particularly using survey data and cross-cultural evidence. She is currently involved in the interdisciplinary cybercrime project and the longitudinal data collection project on the consequences of violent conflict exposure in Ukraine.

LIST OF SPECIALTIES: Crime and Deviance, Sociological Theory, Survey Research, Cross-national Research

Research Projects

Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime: A Comparative Study in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the US

2014-2017

(with Ineke Marshall and Ekaterina Botchkovar)

Funded by the NSF grant to Northeastern University

 

Neighborhood Survey on Crime in Russia and Ukraine

2009

(with Ekaterina Botchkovar and Lorine Hughes)

Tri-Site Survey on Crime and Deviance in Bangladesh and Urban and Rural Ukraine

2008

(with Jonathan Brauer and Charles Tittle)

 

Tri-Country Survey on Crime and Deviance in Greece, Russia, and Ukraine

2006

(with Ekaterina Botchkovar, and Maria Kranidioti, and Charles Tittle)

Survey of Juvenile Delinquency in Lviv, Ukraine

2006

(with William Smith)

Publications

Botchkovar, Ekaterina, Olena Antonaccio, and Lorine Hughes "Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context into General Strain Theory" British Journal of Criminology (2017). [Link]


Hughes, Lorine, Olena Antonaccio and Ekaterina Botchkovar "A Multilevel Test of Merton’s Anomie Theory: An Application to Crime in Russia and Ukraine" Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2017). [Link]