Faculty & Staff

Lisa Anne Zilney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dickson Hall, Room 349
Phone: 973 655 7225
E-mail: zilneyl@mail.montclair.edu
Office Hours: FA '08: TUES 2:30 - 4:30 pm & THUR 4 - 5 pm.

Advisor:

• Justice Systems Concentration:
  • Students with last names beginning A - B
• Environmental Justice Minor

EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: Ideology, Community and Demography: Explaining the Link of Violence Against Human and Nonhuman Animals
Eastern Kentucky University, M.S. 1997
Thesis: An Examination of Gender Specifics Concerning Prevalence of Violence in High School Dating Relationships.
University of Windsor, Ontario., B.A. 1995

TEACHING AREAS
Animals & Justice, Drugs & Society, Environmental Justice, Introduction to Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, Perspectives on Justice, Research Methods, Sex Crimes, White Collar Crime

PUBLICATIONS

• Publication in Progress, Lisa Anne Zilney & Anne Austin Carroll. Drugs: Policy, Social Costs, Crime & Justice, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Publication in Progress, Lisa Anne Zilney & Laura Joan Zilney. Perverts and Predators: The Making of Sexual Offender Laws. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Publication in Progress, Lisa Anne Zilney & Laura Joan Zilney. Sexual Offenses in the United States: Crimes, Laws and Punishments. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
• Publication in Progress, Lisa Anne Zilney. “Assessing Course Impact on Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders.”
• Publication in Progress, Lisa Anne Zilney. “Injecting an Advantage: Motivations for Steroid Use and the Implications for Masculinity.”
• 2009; Lisa Anne Zilney. “Decriminalization of Drugs.“ In Helen Taylor Greene & Shaun L. Gabbidon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (forthcoming)
• 2008; Lisa Anne Zilney. “Controversies Surrounding the War on Drugs.” In Gregg Barak (Ed.), Battleground: Criminal Justice. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (forthcoming)
• 2008; Lisa Anne Zilney & Laura Joan Zilney. “Controversies Surrounding Sex Offender Laws.” In Gregg Barak (Ed.), Battleground: Criminal Justice. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (forthcoming)
• 2007; Lisa Anne Zilney. Lessons from our Furry Friends: Animal Cruelty as an Indicator of Family Violence, Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. (forthcoming)
• 2006; Lisa Anne Zilney, Danielle McGurrin, & Sammy Zahran. “Environmental Justice & the Role of Criminology: An Analytical Review of 33 Years of Environmental Justice Research.” Criminal Justice Research, 31(1), 47-62.
• 2005; Lisa Anne Zilney & Mary Zilney. “Reunification of Child and Animal Welfare Agencies: Cross-Reporting of Abuse in Wellington County, Ontario.” Child Welfare, Volume LXXXIV: 1, January/February, (47-66).
• 2004; Lisa Anne Zilney. Guide to Criminal Procedure for Illinois. Wadsworth Press, Belmont, CA.
• 2004; Sammy Zahran, Donald Hastings, & Lisa Anne Zilney. “Proposal for More Equitable Allocation of Environmental Health Risks: The Case of Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Installations.” Agenda for Social Justice 2004: Solutions. Published by The Society for the Study of Social Problems, July.
• 2003; Lisa Anne Zilney & Mary Zilney. “Exploration of a Link: Child and Animal Cruelty in Wellington County, Ontario.” Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies, June, 47:1.
• 2003; Review of “Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences” by Maurie J. Cohen and Joseph Murphy (Eds.). Society and Natural Resources, 16:8 (755-758).

CONFERENCES

• 2007 “An Examination of OSHA’s Enforcement Strategies and Penalty Assessments in the Apparel Industry” (with Danielle McGurrin as primary presenter). American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 14-17.
• 2007 Discussant “Children at Risk: Sex Crime Overtime and in new Domains.” American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 14-17.
• 2007 Organizer and Presider, “Linking the Cycles of Violence: Research on Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY, August 10-12.
• 2007 “Perverts and Predators: The Creation of Sex Offender Laws” (with Laura Joan Zilney). Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY, August 10-12.
• 2007 “Cruelty Has No Boundaries: Exploring the Human-Animal Link in Ontario, Canada” (with Mary Zilney). Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY, August 10-12.
• 2007 “The Social Construction of Sex Offending” (with Laura Joan Zilney as primary presenter). Guelph Annual Sexuality Conference, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, June 18-20.
• 2006 Organizer and Presider, “Teaching Justice and Compassion: Learning Through the Inclusion of Animals into our Sense of Community.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Quebec, August 10-12.
• 2005 Organizer, “Assessing Journal Lag Times.” Sociologists for Women in Society, Philadelphia, PA, August 13-16.
• 2005 Organizer, “Consequences, Solutions & Impacts of Human-Animal Interaction.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, PA, August 12-14.
• 2005 Organizer, “What About the Animals: Does Human-Animal Interaction Benefit Both Species?” Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, PA, August 12-14.
• 2005 “Rethinking the ‘Boys will be Boys’ Mentality: The Relevance of Adolescent Animal Abuse in Predicting Domestic Violence” (with Anne Austin Carroll). Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC, April 13-16.
• 2005 Presider, “Organizing for Environmental Action.” Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC, April 13-16.