Cincinnati, OH
Jessica Huff is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on policing and program evaluation. She is specifically interested in using experimental methods to examine police programs and policies intended to improve police effectiveness and fairness. She has partnered with police agencies across the U.S. to evaluate programs including violence reduction strategies, intelligence-led approaches to gun crime investigations, use of force training, and body-worn cameras. She has additionally worked with police agencies to assess and enhance their capacity to identify trends in crime and officer performance. Her work has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. She has published in outlets including Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, and the Journal of Experimental Criminology. In addition to teaching statistics and policing in an academic setting, she has provided professional training related to crime analysis, crime mapping, and statistics to police practitioners throughout the U.S. and internationally, funded by the United Nations Development Program and the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing.