Faculty Profile for Dr. Lucia Summers Rodriguez

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Dr. Lucia Summers Rodriguez
Associate Professor — School of Criminal Justice & Criminology
HINE 124
phone: (512) 245-2389
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Lucia Summers is an Associate 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.

Teaching Interests

 Research methods, statistics, environmental criminology, crime analysis

Research Interests

 Environmental criminology, offender situational decision making, geographic analysis of crime, situational crime prevention

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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/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
  • Soto, C., & Summers, L. (2020). Macro-brothels as crime generators: Impact of closure and diffusion of benefits. European Journal of Criminology, 17(3), 247–268. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370818788011

Selected Awards

  • 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
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University. 2018

Selected Grants

  • 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 2025). 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 - Present). 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.

Selected Service Activities

Speaker
Hays County Sheriff’s Office Cadet Graduation
September 20, 2024-Present
Member
San Marcos Police Department Violent Crime Reduction Committee
March 2024-Present
Assisting with establishing international initiatives
TXST GLOBAL International Initiatives
December 2023-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Papers in Applied Geography
2022-Present
Member
MSCJ Steering Committee
June 2022-Present