Amy Poland, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D., Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha

M.P.A., Public Administration, University of South Dakota

B.A., Criminal Justice and Sociology, Morningside College

Bio

Amy Poland, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at St. Joseph’s University New York.

She began her career in criminal justice working with juvenile offenders in a residential treatment facility in Sioux City, Iowa while she finished her Masters in Public Administration. She completed a Ph.D. in criminal justice and taught at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Dr. Poland has served on the university’s Faculty Technology Committee, Curriculum Committee, Online Steering Committee and the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. She is also currently on the Academic Program Review Committee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the editor for the Division of Feminist Criminology Newsletter Committee for the American Society of Criminology. 

Dr. Poland utilizes technology in both her classroom and research, teaching her students how to create multimedia content related to material they are studying in their criminal justice classes. She has presented workshops across Long Island on the use of Prezi and other educational technology in the classroom, for small business, and for social media and public relations professionals. She has both led and joined Photo Walks here on Long Island and worked with Herstory Writers Workshop to help deliver Writing for Justice workshops with St. Joseph’s University and Patchogue-Medford students.

Scholarly & Professional Interests

Dr. Poland is currently working on a study of the public’s perception of the criminally insane, an extension of work she did for her doctoral dissertation. Her research interests include innovative pedagogy including the use of technology, artificial intelligence and gamification in the criminal justice classroom.  

Select Publications

Durovich, J. & Poland, A. (2019).  Online Learning: A Roadmap for Systematic Human Service Course Quality Assessment. In Kellner, L. (Ed.) Bulletin: Highlighting Best Practices in Human Service Education, Fall (p.2). Alexandria, VA: Council for Standards in Human Service Education.

Durovich, J. & Poland, A. (2019).  Self-Reported Human Service Student Satisfaction and Success as a Function of Course Delivery Modality and Student Demographics.  In B. Garris & A. Walters (Eds.) Conference Proceedings: 2018 NOHS National Conference.  Philadelphia, PA, October 24-27 (p. 71-78). Retrieved: www.nationalhumanservices.org

Durovich, J. & Poland, A. (2020). The Impact of the Human Service Practitioner in Educating the Next Generation of Human Service Professional. Human Services Today, Spring (p. 22-23). Retrieved: www.nationalhumanservices.org 

Herz, D. C., and Poland, A. L. (2002). Assessing the need for and availability of mental health services for juvenile offenders. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

Manganaro, L., and Poland, A. (2012). Gender and perceptions of formal and informal justice systems in Afghanistan. Women & Criminal Justice, 22, 1:2-29.

Poland, A. L. (2015). The female role in the War on Drugs. In C. Marcum & T. Freiburger, Women in the Criminal Justice System: Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Publishing.

Poland, A.L., & Alvarez-Rivera, L. (2024). Serial rape. In K. Borgeson, S. Vogel, & R.M. Valeri, Serial Crime: A Criminological and Psychological Analysis. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 

Poland, A. & Durovich, J. (2022). Everyday Curriculum Assessment: Building a Dashboard to Seamlessly Integrate Evaluation of Online Program Quality In S. Kumar & P. Arnolds, eds. Quality in Online Programs: Approaches and Practices in Higher Education. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Poland, A., Durovich, J., & Schwarz, R. (January 2021). ‘Let Us Roll Up Our Sleeves’: Amplifying Female Academic Leadership Through Claiming Space and Collaborative Leadership. Journal of Faculty Development.

Poland, A.L., Kilburn, J.C., & Alvarez-Rivera, L.  (2021).  Serial rape.  In K. Borgeson & K. Kuehnle, Serial Offenders: Theory and Practice.  Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.  

Poland, A. & Stocker, D.K. (2026, forthcoming). Virginia’s Court System. In B.A. Easterling & E. W. Greenburg, Virginia’s Court System. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.