Taryn Zastrow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Place-based criminology, crime analysis, community violence & health, policing, crime & public policy

Taryn Zastrow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from George Mason University in 2024. She graduated with her B.A. in Psychology in 2016 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her M.A. in Criminology, Law and Society in 2021 from George Mason University. Taryn previously worked as a graduate research assistant at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and a research assistant at the National Policing Institute in Washington, DC. Her research interests include place-based criminology, crime analysis, community violence & health, policing, and crime & public policy.

Education

Ph.D. (Criminology, Law and Society), George Mason University

M.A. (Criminology, Law and Society), George Mason University

B.A. (Psychology), University of Nebraska-Lincoln