Dr. Ryan Spohn

Ryan Spohn, PhD, is the Director of the Nebraska Center of Justice Research (NCJR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he performs research and evaluation activities targeted at improving the performance of juvenile justice, criminal justice, and corrections activities. For ten years,  he has served as principal investigator on the evaluation of Nebraska's statewide, multisite Vocational & Life Skills reentry initiative. He has also served on research partner on three reentry grant projects funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.  Dr. Spohn has published in numerous sociology and criminal justice journals, including Criminal Justice and Behavior, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, and Crime & Delinquency. Dr. Spohn has served as both a research partner and a consultant for the BJA. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology/Criminology from the University of Iowa, an MS in Sociology/Criminology from Texas A&M University, and a BS in Sociology/Criminology from Kansas State University. Dr. Spohn is a Fellow of the BJA Innovations Suite Research-Practitioner Academy and a Fellow of Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform.