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Claudia E. San Miguel PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Aug. 2005 to Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, present Texas A&M International University Aug. 2007 to Director, Criminal Justice Program, present Texas A&M International University

Jan. 2008 Co-Director, Texas National Guard Training Program, Community Awareness Training (CAT)

Duties: Coordinate development of on-line curriculum for military personnel and first-responders

March 2007- Committee Member, Academy of Criminal Justice 2008 Sciences Fellow Award Committee Jan 2007- Co-editor, Journal of Sociological and Ecological

May2008 Boundaries (Special Issue on Immigration, Crime, and Victimization), Texas A&M International University

March 2008- Chair, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Fellow

2009 Award Committee CONTRACT(S) AND GRANT(S)

2008 Texas National Guard (Contract) • Description. To coordinate the development of online

curriculum on border security for military personnel and first-responders.

2005 Project Protect (Grant)

• Description. Assessment of local school districts’ ability and capability to handle violent incidents on school grounds. Special attention was also devoted to help school districts develop an action plan for such incidents.

2003 Border Policing/Intelligence Gathering (Grant)

• Description. To develop an integrated training and information-sharing network to improve

counterintelligence initiatives in Texas, as well as develop a geographic information system (GIS) and a relational database that will test the viability of improving investigation and detection efforts in selected areas along the Texas border with Mexico.

2003 Office of Law Enforcement Training (Contract)

• Description. To develop training curriculum for the Turkish National Police in order to enhance their understanding of policing in the United States. Special emphasis was given to topics such as Community Policing, Problem-Oriented Policing, organizational theory, and ethics.

2002 Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and

Education (Grant) • Description. To aide the Commission in providing

legislatively mandated courses for law enforcement officers in the state of Texas. Specifically, the project aimed to enhance the Commission’s effectiveness in delivering distance education and training materials to officers and training centers around the state.

2001 Texas Narcotics Control Program (Grant)

• Description. To provide an analysis of multi-jurisdictional and multi-county narcotic task forces in the state of Texas with emphasis on examining task force organizational structure, partnerships, funding, resource management as well as the cost/benefit of continued governmental funding for task forces.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Ferguson, C., San Miguel, C., & Hartley, R. (under review). A multivariate analysis of

youth violence and aggression: The influence of family, peers, depression, and media violence. Journal of Pediatrics.

San Miguel, C. (under review). Are neighborhood watch programs overdue for change?

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. Cheeseman-Dial, K., San Miguel, C., Frantzen, D., & Nored, L. (under review). Everyday

Ethics for Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. San Miguel, C. (in press). Global human trafficking and smuggling. In M. Miller (Ed.),

21st Century Criminology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Frantzen, D.H., & San Miguel, C. (in press). Mandatory arrest? Police response to domestic violence victims. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. del Carmen, R., Vollum, S., Cheeseman, K., Frantzen, D., & San Miguel. (2008). The death penalty: Constitutional issues, commentaries, and case studies. Anderson Publishing (2nd Edition). San Miguel, C. (2008). Human trafficking. In J. Warner (Ed.), Battleground Immigration

(vol 1). Westport, CT: Greenwood. San Miguel, C. (2008). Enslavement. In J. Warner (Ed.), Battleground Immigration (vol

1). Westport, CT: Greenwood. San Miguel, C., & Rudolph, B. (2008). Verbal judo: The gentle but powerful form of less than lethal force. Law Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 58-67. Ferguson, C., San Miguel, C., Kilburn, J., & Sanchez, P. (2007). The effectiveness of school-based anti-bullying programs: A meta-analytic review. Criminal Justice Review, 32(4), 401-414. San Miguel, C., & Rudolph, B. (2007). Traffic stops: Opportunities and old and new threats to police officer safety. Law Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 17- 30. San Miguel, C. (2006). Drug tests, the Fourth Amendment, and the Supreme Court’s rationale for warrantless and suspicionless searches. In C. Hemmens (Ed.), Legal Issues in Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. San Miguel, C. (2006). Intelligence-led policing: The use of situational and observational profiling for homeland security. Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries, 1.2, 125-145. del Carmen, R., Vollum, S., Cheeseman, K., Frantzen, D., & San Miguel. (2005). The death penalty: Constitutional issues, commentaries, and case studies. Anderson Publishing. RECENT GRANT SUBMISSIONS Ferguson, C., San Miguel, C., Chavez, M., & Quintana, F. (2009). The Laredo Longitudinal Youth Outcome Project. National Institute of Health. San Miguel, C., & Kwak, D. (2009). Police and Prosecutorial Responses to Human Trafficking. A Multi-stage Analysis. National Institute of Justice.

Ferguson, C., & San Miguel, C. (2008). Gang Violence Prevention Program. National Institute of Justice. San Miguel, C., & Ferguson, C. (2008). Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Review of Literature. National Institute of Justice. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (March 2009). Police and Prosecutorial Responses

to Human Trafficking.

American Society of Criminology (November 2008). A Routine Activities Theory Approach to Human Trafficking: Law Enforcement Attitudes to Human Trafficking Victims.

Domestic Violence Conference (October 2008 at TAMIU). Understanding Human Trafficking in Laredo.

Texas Crime Victims Conference (May 2007). Overview of Trafficked Victims’ Rights.

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (March 2007). Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences American Society of Criminology Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice Southwestern Social Science Association