and narcotics stings, search warrant service assistance, mounted unit departmental work, CSI (crime scene 
investigator), forensics, Sergeant and Sergeant field training program and master trainer, Lieutenant and 
Lieutenant field training program, and finally Acting Captain. During this time, she was also chosen and paid 
by an independent firm to travel the country and conduct oral board interviews and assessment center testing 
and recruiting for law enforcement agencies and fire departments. She developed a ground-breaking class 
to assist candidates in the law enforcement hiring process and is now under contract to publish the related 
textbook/study guide. Tiffany continues to operate in the field of CSI and forensics as an expert investigator 
and witness on violent crime. She also runs a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) 
business, offering citizens and owners of businesses CPTED reviews to ensure the safety of their homes and 
buildings. Finally, in her free time, she runs SOAR Wildlife Center (SoarWildlife.org), which is a non-profit 
organization, that rehabilitates sick, injured, or orphaned fawns and other baby mammals. 
Lore Rutz-Burri, J.D., Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Southern Oregon 
University,  https://inside.sou.edu/criminology/faculty/rutz.html 
Lore Rutz-Burri is a 1982 graduate of Southern Oregon State College (now SOU) with a Bachelors of 
Arts degree in Criminology and Political Science. After graduating, she lived in Southern Austria until 1984. 
Upon returning to the states, she earned an M.C.J (Master’s degree in Criminal Justice) from the University 
of South Carolina. In 1985 she started in a Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park, but 
early on decided she would rather pursue a law degree. In 1989 she graduated “order of the coif” with her 
doctor of jurisprudence (JD) from the University of Oregon School of Law. Following law school, Lore 
clerked for the Superior Court of Alaska in Fairbanks for one year and then worked for 5 years as a deputy 
district attorney in Josephine County, Oregon. There, she prosecuted a variety of crimes, but mostly assault 
cases.  In 1995, she began teaching criminology and criminal justice at SOU. Since 2015 she has been  a 
part-time Circuit Court judge in the Josephine County courts. Lore has been married for over 27 years to 
her husband, Markus (a Swiss national). They have two sons– Severin (who studied at SOU and majored in 
psychology) and Jaston (who studied at U of O and majored in philosophy).  She has both case books and 
introductory text on criminal law and criminal procedure. 
Shanell K. Sanchez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice,  Southern 
Oregon University, https://inside.sou.edu/criminology/faculty/dr-shanell-sanchez.html 
Shanell Sanchez joined the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at Southern Oregon University 
in Ashland, Oregon in 2016. Prior to that, Shanell was an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at Colorado 
Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln in Sociology in 2012. Her research and teaching interests are centered around social change and 
justice, inequality, and comparative crime and justice. 
ALISON S. BURKE, DAVID CARTER, BRIAN FEDOREK, TIFFANY MOREY, LORE RUTZ-BURRI, AND SHANELL
SANCHEZ
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