He received his PhD from Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice in 2015. Dr. Haberman’s primary research interests are environmental criminology and police effectiveness. Specifically, his research focuses on understanding why crime occurs when and where it does and then how to use that insight to improve police effectiveness. In 2014, he was the recipient of the National Institute of Justice’s Graduate Research Fellowship for his dissertation work on hot spots policing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Haberman’s work has been published in leading journals, such as Criminology, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.