Justin A. Heinonen

Justin A. Heinonen is currently a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati’s Division of Criminal Justice. Heinonen is also a research associate in the University of Cincinnati’s Policing Institute, where he is currently working on the Uptown Consortium project. This project involves providing consortium members with ongoing analyses of crime problems and hot spots in uptown Cincinnati, recommending the most effective responses for these locations, and assessing the effectiveness of each response in terms of crime reduction. His specific research interests include situational crime prevention, crime mapping, white-collar crime, and victimology. Heinonen holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Toledo, and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Bowling Green State University.