Rate My Professor Yumi Suzuki

Dr. Yumi E. Suzuki is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and serves as Coordinator of the Criminal Intelligence Certificate. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, where she also received a Dissertation Research Fellowship and Initiatives for Women Endowment Award. She holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a B.A. in Psychology from Southern Oregon University. Prior to joining Wichita State, Dr. Suzuki worked as a research analyst at the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services in Albany, New York. At Wichita State, she has been recognized with the Online Learning Faculty Fellow and Tilford Fellow awards.

Dr. Suzuki's research focuses on environmental and human mechanisms of cyberfraud, including phishing scams, identity fraud, and money laundering, as well as technology use and applications in criminal justice, physical and cyber security, crime prevention through CPTED and SCP, retail and consumer fraud, financial crimes, and correlates of interpersonal violence. She teaches courses such as Cybercrime, Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice, Crime Causation and Criminal Justice Policy, Forensic Victimology, Victims and Victim Services, Criminal Mind and Behavior, and Victims in Criminal Justice. Her publications include "Money mule cases: Insights from investigators in law enforcement and financial institutions" in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (2024, with E. Tapper); "Prevention and mitigation measures against phishing emails: A sequential schema model" in Security Journal (2022, with S.A. Salinas Monroy); "Helping fraud victims: The role of police in combating cyber-enabled financial crime" in Reimagined policing in the age of reform (2023); "Child sexual abuse in Japan: A systematic review and future directions" in Child Abuse & Neglect (2017, with M. Tanaka et al.); "Factors associated with college students’ responses to rape-disclosure scenarios" in Journal of School Violence (2017, with H.S. Bonner); and "Sexual violence in Japan: Implications of the lay judge system on victims of sexual violence" in Journal of Law & Criminal Justice (2016). She has secured grants as co-PI for Establishing a CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Program at WSU and as PI for projects on college students' advice to rape victims. Dr. Suzuki is a certified study reviewer for CrimeSolutions by the National Institute of Justice, serves on the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office Peer Support Advisory Committee, and contributes as an associate editor for the Society of Christian Scholars.