Lisa R. Muftic

Lisa R. Muftic is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Western New England University. She received her PhD in criminal justice from North Dakota State University in 2006. For the 2012–2013 acadeic year, she was appointed the U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she was a visiting faculty member with the Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences, Criminology and Security Studies at the University of Sarajevo. Dr. Muftic has extensive experience in the areas of violence against women, human trafficking, and international criminal justice issues, with special expertise regarding the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2015 she was named the Faculty Researcher of the Year by the American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology. Her published scholarship has appeared in well-respected refereed journals including Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Violence Against Women, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence.