Malgorzata Zuber, Ph.D.

Malgorzata Zuber 2025

Malgorzata Zuber

Ph.D.

Criminal Justice

Department Chair, Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Leadership

Internal Affiliate Faculty for the Leadership Ph.D. Program

College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Biography

Malgorzata J. Zuber grew up in Kielce, in south-central Poland. She attended the University of Rzeszow in Poland where she earned LL.M. degree in 2010 and M.Ed. in pedagogy in 2011. Last year of her M.Ed. degree was completed at University of Genoa in Italy as a part of Erasmus Program scholarship. She moved to the United States in 2012 and enrolled in a criminal justice program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In 2014 she earned M.A. degree in criminal justice, and in 2018 Ph.D. in criminal justice and criminology. She received few The Erasmus+ staff mobility grants that allowed her to teach and be trained in multiple universities including in Turkey, Spain (Gran Canaria), and Slovakia. In the fall of 2016, she moved to Pennsylvania to continue her work at Alvernia University.

• Ph.D. in criminal justice and criminology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2018

• M.A. in criminal justice, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2014

• M.Ed. in pedagogy, University of Rzeszow (Poland), 2011

• LL.M, University of Rzeszow (Poland), 2010

• B.A. in social rehabilitation, Swietokrzyska Szkola Wyzsza in Kielce (Poland), 2009

• CJ 102 Criminology

• CJ 221 Research Methods in Criminal Justice

• CJ 403 Current Issues in Criminal Justice

• PHD855 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

• PHD801 Negotiations and Conflict Resolution for Contemporary Leaders.

• Immigration policy

• Intersection of immigration and criminal law

• Criminological theory

• Risk and protective factors for offending

• Zuber, M. (2026). Neutralization Theory. In J.P. Stamatel (Ed.) The Sage Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender (in print)

• Taylor, J., Zuber, M., Shoup, D., (2025). Assessing the Odds of Exclusionary Discipline: An Exploration of the Racial, Socioeconomic, and Spatial Disparities in High School Discipline", Journal of Education,206(1), doi: 10.1177/00220574251343913

• Taylor, J., Zuber, M., Shoup, D., (2022). Determinants of School Discipline: Examination of Institutional Level Factors Impacting Exclusionary Sanctions, Youth & Society, 55(3), doi: 10.1177/0044118X221075053

• Zuber, M. (2021). Understanding Green Card Marriage Freud. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD.

• Zuber, M. and Greenberg, E. (2017). Cross-cultural dispositions to crime: An investigation of macro-environmental influences on neutralization. In: E.W. P?ywaczewski and E.M. Guzik-Makaruk (eds.), Current problems of the penal law and criminology, Aktuelle Probleme des Strafrechts und der Kriminologie, C.H.Beck, Warszawa, p.865-881.

• Zuber, M. and Goh-Marchese, E. (2016). Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia – A Case Study. The Norwich Review of International and Transnational Crime, Vol.1(2), p.75-92.

• Zuber, M., Greenberg, E. and Williams, L. (2016). Differentiable attitudes towards specific crimes and contexts: A quantification of neutralization techniques. Polish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, Vol.11, p.163-183.

• Pattavina, A., Socia, K. and Zuber, M. (2015). Economic stress and domestic violence: Examining the impact of mortgage foreclosures on incidents reported to the police from 2005 to 2009. Justice Research and Policy, Vol. 16(2), 147-164.

• Zuber, M. (March 2024). Stress and Occupational Burnout Among Police Officers in Poland. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Chicago, IL.

• Waterson, K. and Zuber, M. (March 2023). The Impact of Immigrants’ Subjective Well-Being on Their Participation in Crime. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: National Harbor, MD.

• Taylor, J.-P.C, and Zuber, M. (November 2022). Redesigning School Discipline: Mitigating the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Inclusivity & Corrective Programming (Roundtable). American Society of Criminology: Atlanta, GA.

• Taylor, J.-P.C, and Zuber, M. (June 2022). Assessing the Odds of Exclusionary Discipline: An Exploration of the Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in High School Discipline. Stockholm Criminology Symposium: Stockholm, Sweden.

• Taylor, J.-P.C, and Zuber, M. (March 2022). Determinants of School Discipline: Examination of Institutional Level Factors Impacting Exclusionary Sanctions. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Las Vegas, NV.

• Zuber, M. (November 2019). Immigration in the Current Political and Policy Context. American Society of Criminology: San Francisco, CA.

• Harvey, B. and Zuber, M. (March 2019). Integration of Police Academy Studies within a Criminal Justice Program. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Baltimore, MD.

• Greenberg, M.A. (moderator), Zuber, M., Harvey, B., Rush, P.R., Smith, J., Richards, G., Groskin, R.B., and Burton, C. (March 2019) The Pros and Cons of Proposing: A New Student Section and A New Practitioner Section Criminal Justice Education/Administration and Leadership (Discussion Panel). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Baltimore, MD.

• Goida, E.H. and Zuber, M. (March 2018). The Impact of K-9 Units on Crime in Pennsylvania. Presented to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: New Orleans, LA.

• Zuber, M. and Greenberg, E. (March 2017). Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Sexual Assault: A Neutralization-Based Approach. Presented to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Kansas City, MO.

• Zuber, M. (November 2016). Inside the Green Card Marriage Phenomenon. An Overview of Completed Study. Presented to the American Society of Criminology: New Orleans, LA.

• Zuber, M. and Goh-Marchese, E. (June 2016). Power of Influence: Peers or Parents? Presented at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Sweden.

• Zuber, M. and Asagba, J. (March 2015). Bostonians’ Familiarity with and Assessments of Anti-Terrorism. Presented to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences: Orlando, FL.

• Zuber, M., Greenberg, E. and Williams, L. (November 2014). Cross-cultural dispositions to crime: An investigation of macro-environmental influences on neutralization. Presented to the American Society of Criminology: San Francisco, CA.

• Pinckney, T.M., Greenberg, E. and Zuber, M. (June 2014). Comparing the Crime Imageries of News Media and Video Games. Presented to the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, Portsmouth, RI.

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

The American Society of Criminology