Dr. John Shjarback is an associate professor in the Department of Law and Justice Studies at Rowan University. His research broadly focuses on American policing with a specific interest in transactional gun violence between officers and citizens. It examines such transactional violence through a number of avenues and perspectives, including community/ecological correlates as well as organizational factors of police agencies. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in Injury Prevention, Criminology & Public Policy, and the Journal of Criminal Justice, among others. He has also written op-eds geared toward general public audiences for The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, and Smerconish.com. John’s work on use of force and officer-involved shootings informs data collection ventures and has been cited during legislative and agency efforts in Philadelphia, Utah, Georgia, New Jersey, and King County, Washington. He is the 2021 recipient of the “Early Career Award” from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Policing.