Elizabeth DeValve
Assistant Professor

Email: edevalve@uncfsu.edu
Phone: 672-2192
Office: Lauretta Taylor Building, Room 335

Educational Background

Ph.D., Criminal Justice,
Sam Houston State University

Dr. Elizabeth DeValve received her Ph.D. from Sam Houston State University in 2004. Her interests include: victimology and victim's studies, females and criminal justice, juvenile justice and delinquency, police-community relations, critical criminology and research methods.  Dr. DeValve has worked as a corrections liaison with both incarcerated boys and girls.  Additionally, she worked for a number of years as a rape crisis hotline counselor and support group facilitator.  She considers herself a late bloomer in terms of education, as it took her a few semesters to really get serious about her college education.  Though she never thought she would return to college after earning her Bachelor's degree it became very clear that she needed more education to offer her clients the attention and services they deserved.  Little did she know that she would end up in academia - an area she now loves. In addition to teaching Dr. DeValve plans to work with community agencies to investigate the topics of victimization, juvenile justice services, and policing.