Rachel Santos, Ph.D.

Dr. Rachel B. Santos is currently a professor of criminal justice and co-director of the Center for Police Practice, Policy, and Research at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia. She is also the coordinator for the Crime Analysis Minor. Her interests include conducting practice-based research, which is implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices in the real world of criminal justice. In particular, she seeks to improve crime prevention and proactive crime-reduction efforts by police in areas such as crime analysis, problem solving, accountability, as well as leadership and organizational change. She and Dr. Roberto Santos co-created Stratified Policing, which is an organizational model for systemizing proactive crime-reduction strategies in police departments. Other areas of research include police/researcher partnerships, police/community collaboration, hot spot and problem-oriented policing, predictive policing, environmental criminology, crime and place, police/crime data and technology, experimental research methodology, and program evaluation.