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Dr. Lucia Summers Rodriguez

  • Professor - School of Criminal Justice & Criminology
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Biography and expertise

Lucia Summers is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. Her research interests include the spatio-temporal patterns of crime, offender spatial decision making, and situational crime prevention. Lucia received her PhD in criminology from University College London in 2012.

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Security and Crime Science

University of London, 2012

Master's Degree

MSC in Research Methods in Psychology

University College London, 2003

Master's Degree

MSC in Applied Forensic Psychology

University of Leicester, 2002

Bachelor's Degree

BSC in Psychology

University of Sussex, 1999

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Supporting), Liu, Xiangping (Supporting), Chang, Carolyn T (Supporting), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting), Irvin, Jennifer A (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting). Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce, National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2026). Grant.
  • Summers, Lucia (Principal), Fulton, Lawrence V (Co-Principal), Shallenberger, Alyssa Nicole (Co-Principal). Identification of Sexual Trafficking Photos, Images, and Texts (I_STOPIT), Texas State University, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $30345. (Submitted: February 2022, Funded: March 2022 - June 2022). Grant.
  • Medina Ariza, Juan Jose (Principal), Gutiérrez, José Antonio (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Supporting). Victimisation in place: Routine activities, neighbourhood structure, and the spatial distribution of journey to victimisation before and after COVID, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Federal, $36325. (Submitted: December 2020, Funded: September 2021 - August 2024). Grant.
  • Summers, Lucia. Conference travel award, Texas State University, $800. (Funded: October 2014). Grant.
  • Rossmo, Kim (Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal). Offender Decision-Making: Decision Trees and Displacement, National Institute of Justice, Federal, $377528. (Funded: January 2013 - December 2017). Grant.
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  • Yuan, Y., Wang, P., & Summers, L. (2025). Comparing the spatio-temporal patterns of crime incidents based on time series analysis: a case study of Austin, Texas (Vol. 7–18, pp. 1–7). https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-7-18-2025, 2025
  • Summers, L., Shallenberger, A. N., Cruz, J., & Fulton, L. (2023). A multi-input machine learning approach to classifying sex trafficking from online escort advertisements. Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, 5(2), 460–472.
  • Rossmo, D. K., & Summers, L. (2022). Uncertainty and heuristics in offender decision-making: Deviations from rational choice. Journal of Criminal Justice, 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101923
  • Rossmo, D. K., & Summers, L. (2021). Bentham and the philosophical nature of preventive policing. International Criminal Justice Review, 31(3), 263–265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1057567718813424
  • Rossmo, D. K., & Summers, L. (2021). Offender decision-making and displacement. Justice Quarterly, 38(3), 375–405. https://doi.org/07418825.2019.1666904
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University. 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University. 2019
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Dean Nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Service (Assistant Professor/Instructor/Lecturer). 2019
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  1. Other

    CoAA Tenure and Promotion Review Group

  2. Chair

    Awards Committee

  3. Reviewer / Referee

    Papers in Applied Geography

  4. Member

    Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS) Executive Committee

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Human Trafficking

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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