Dr. Carina Gallo

Carina Gallo

Professor
Faculty Advisor
Email: cgallo@sfsu.edu
Location: HSS 334
Office Hours:
Mon: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Wed: 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Carina Gallo is a Professor of Criminal Justice Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Stockholm University and an M.S. from Lund University in Sweden. Carina has a global perspective on research and teaching. Her interdisciplinary research addresses historical and international trends in crime and welfare policy, with particular attention to how policies and laws intending to support underrepresented and marginalized groups have developed over the last century. Her research has been supported by numerous grants and scholarships including the Swedish Crime Victim Fund, the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, and the Sweden-America Foundation. Carina recently published a book exploring the roots of the Swedish victim movement. This book is vital to informing the literature how different societies have approached issues related to crime and victims.

Carina has over ten years of experience as a university instructor teaching diverse student populations at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the fields of social work, criminology, and forensic psychology. She is especially interested in how technology can globalize the curriculum and has led virtual international exchanges where students in different countries learn together in online classrooms. Her innovative pedagogy has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards. In 2010, she won the Excellence in Teaching Award at Stockholm University, and in 2015 the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) honored her with the Burmeister Award. Before entering academia, she spent several years as a practitioner gaining valuable experience in the capacity of a social worker and leader in a non-profit organization.

External Website

    Carina Gallo Website

    Carina teaches courses on jails and prisons, research methods, comparative criminal justice, and terrorism and political warfare.

    Published Book

    Gallo, C., & Svensson, K. (2019). Victim Support and the Welfare State. London: Routledge.

    Peer-Reviewed Articles

    • Svensson, K., & Gallo, C. (2021). Saying or doing human rights? A study of Victim Support Sweden. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 45(1), 1270138. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2020.1719526
    • Kim, M., & Gallo, C. (2019). Victim compensation: A child of penal welfarism or carceral policies. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab [Nordic Journal of Crime Sciences], 106(1), 54-67. 
    • Gallo, C., af Sandeberg, A., & Svensson, K. (2018). Victim Support, the state, and fellow-human beings. International Review of Victimology, 25(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758017754096
    • Gallo, C., & Elias, R. (2018). Más allá del castigo. El surgimiento del movimiento de víctimas en los Estados Unidos y Suecia. Journal of Victimology, 8, 9-34. http://www.huygens.es/journals/index.php/revista-de-victimologia/article/view/126/50
    • Svensson, K., & Gallo, C. (2018). The creation of an unsolicited organization: Victim Support Sweden. Voluntas. International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organization, 29(5), 1008-1018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-9978-x
    • Gallo, C., Fowlin, J., & Lilja, M. (2018). Gaining a global criminal justice perspective: A computer-supported collaboration between students in Sweden and the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 29(4), 531-550. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2018.1426774

    Peer-Reviewed Contemporary Comments

    Azhar-Graham, A. & Gallo, C. (2020) Reimagining public defense advocacy in times of Covid-19: Lessons from a Task Force. Current Issues in Criminal Justice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10345329.2020.1840914

    Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

    • Fowlin, J., Gallo, C., & Lilja, M. (2020). Expanding the reach to first-generation students: A collaborative learning experience between criminology students in Sweden and the United States. In E. Boling., & M.J. Bishop., & J. Elan., & V. Svhila (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational and Communications Technology. New York: Springer.  https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030361181
    • Gallo, C., & Kim, M. E. (2016). Crime policy and welfare policy. Oxford Handbooks Online. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.46

    Book Reviews

    Gallo, C. (2018). Book review [Review of the book Handbook of victims and victimology, by S. Walklate]. International Review of Victimology, 24(3), 367–369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758018769684

    Op-Eds and Letters