Courses: Theories of Violence, Community Policing, Crime Analysis, Industrial Security, White-Collar Crime, Big Data and Crime, Intro to Cyber-Physical Systems Security, IoT and Crime, Victimology, Police Ethics, Antiterrorism.
Adjunct Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2012 - 07.2015
Department of Criminal Justice
Courses: Criminology, Introduction to International Criminal Justice, Corporate and White-Collar Crime, International Criminology.
Graduate Teaching Fellow
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2011 - 07.2012
Department of Criminal Justice
Courses: Issues in Criminal Justice I, Issues in Criminal Justice II, Principles and Methods in Statistics.
Research Assistant
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2010 - 07.2011
Duties included searching for open-access data, evaluating its quality, cleaning the data, and entering it into the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB).
Education
Ph.D. - Criminal Justice
Graduate Center - City University of New York
New York
01-2016
M.Phil. - Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
New York
01-2014
Master of Arts - International Criminology
University of Hamburg
Hamburg (Germany)
01-2011
Bachelor of Arts - European And Transnational Legal Studies
University of Trento
Trento (Italy)
01-2008
Bachelor of Arts - Business Law And Labor Law
University of Hamburg
Hamburg (Germany)
01-2008
Skills
Criminology and crime prevention
Research methodology
Data analysis
SPSS/AMOS/STATA
Student mentorship
Classroom management
Project coordination
International research cooperation
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Publications
Ferraresso, R. & Peterson, B. (2025). It’s a Dangerous Job! A Systematic Review of the Predictors of Correctional Officer Victimization by Incarcerated Individuals in US Prisons and Jails. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380251320991.
Ferraresso, R. & Lee., C. (2025). Sailing the Stormy Tides of Police Stress: Exploring the Effects of Perceived Job Dangerousness and Work–Family Conflict on Occupational Stress among Korea Coast Guard Police Officers. Asian Journal of Criminology, 1-23.
Ferraresso, R., Kim, E., & Koo, J. (2024). Stalking in the digital age: An application of cyberlifestyle routine activity theory, Korean Journal of Criminology, 32(3), 203-235.
Ferraresso, R., & Kim, C. (2024) Cyber dating abuse among Korean college students: An exploratory study of risk and protective factors. Asian Journal of Criminology
Kim, C., & Ferraresso, R. (2023). Examining technology-facilitated intimate partner violence: A systematic review of journal articles. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(3), 1325-1343.
Kim, C., & Ferraresso, R. (2022). Factors associated with willingness to report intimate partner violence (IPV) to police in South Korea. Journal of interpersonal violence, 37(13-14), NP10862-NP10882.
Ferraresso, R. & Choi, J. (2020). An Analysis of the Factors Related to Victim Decisions to Report Intimate Partner Violence among Female North Korean Defectors Living in South Korea. Korean Journal of Victimology, 28(1), 61-83.
Ferraresso, R. (2020). Risk and protective factors associated with intimate partner violence in a nationally representative sample of Korean men. Journal of preventive medicine and public health, 53(2), 135.
Ferraresso, R., & Jeon, M. (2018). Labeling of North Korean Refugees in the Post-Cold War Era: A Quantitative Analysis of the South Korean Academic Literature. Journal of Peace and Unification, 8(2), 29-57.
Ferraresso, R, & Shin I. (2018). Trends in Military Spending of China and Four ASEAN Countries: A Time Series Analysis Approach. Journal of Area Studies, 36(1), 261-298.
Reports
Ministry of Gender and Equality (2023).Comparing anti-trafficking prevention strategies and responses to improve anti-trafficking prevention practices and the remedies for victims of domestic and international human trafficking.
Korean National Police Agency (2022).A study of measures to improve the effectiveness of freezing and recovering overseas criminal proceeds through a comparative analysis of payment suspension systems.
Accomplishments
Excellence Paper Award, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 2017
Korean Government Scholarship Program, Ministry of Education, National Institute for International Education (NIIED), 2015-2018
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2014-2015
Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship, The Graduate Center - CUNY, 2010-2014
Scientific Societies and Conferences
Active Member: The American Society of Criminology (ASC), The Korean Society of Criminology (KSC), The Korean Society of Criminology in America (KOSCA), The Korean Society of Victimology.
Presentations: Abstracts presented as lead author at national and international conferences, including ASC, ACJS, AAPS.
Languages
Italian: Native
English: Fluent
Korean, German: Advanced
Timeline
Assistant Professor
Dongguk University
09.2018 - Current
Adjunct Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2012 - 07.2015
Graduate Teaching Fellow
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2011 - 07.2012
Research Assistant
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
09.2010 - 07.2011
Ph.D. - Criminal Justice
Graduate Center - City University of New York
M.Phil. - Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Master of Arts - International Criminology
University of Hamburg
Bachelor of Arts - European And Transnational Legal Studies
Associate General Counsel, APAC / Legal Executive Director, Korea at Olympus APACAssociate General Counsel, APAC / Legal Executive Director, Korea at Olympus APAC