Victor St. John, Ph.D., Named New Professor for Criminology and Criminal Justice Department

The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice announces Victor J. St. John, Ph.D., has joined the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program as an assistant professor in the School of Social Work.

Prior to joining SLU, Dr. St. John held a wide range of professional research positions in the government and nonprofit sectors during his studies and brings a skill set suited for a large research-focused university such as Saint Louis University. He has taught eight unique courses across two institutions, John Jay College and Rutgers University, including teaching in a correctional setting.

Dr. St. John’s research is focused on reducing the racial harms associated with mass criminalization, particularly for youth and adults in the United States.

His scholarly publications can be found in Journal of Correctional Health Care, Race and Justice, Race and Social Problems, Critical Criminology, The Prison Journal, Journal of Criminal Justice, Advancing Corrections, and Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy.

St. John recently completed his doctoral degree at the City of New York Graduate Center housed at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

In 2017, he received the Best Journal Article Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice for his research published in Race and Justice. Additionally, he received the Time-sharing Experiments for Social Sciences Young Scholar Grant Award in 2019.

College for Public Health and Social Justice

The Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice is the only academic unit of its kind, studying social, environmental and physical influences that together determine the health and well-being of people and communities. It also is the only accredited school or college of public health among nearly 250 Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States.

Guided by a mission of social justice and focus on finding innovative and collaborative solutions for complex health problems, the College offers nationally recognized programs in public health, social work, health administration, applied behavior analysis, and criminology and criminal justice.