Jane Gray Associates

Based inDublin, Ohio

Main fieldPolice, security and criminal justice

Areas of expertise12 listed

About Jane Gray Associates

Dr. Gray's has extensive training and experience in the areas of premises liability and negligent hiring and retention. Her specific area of expertise resides in identifying the foreseeability of crime using a number of techniques, including evaluating the environment as would a criminal offender. Dr. Gray has interviewed hundreds of violent offenders in an effort to understand how they select locations for the commission of crime and has testified in numerous cases involving the foreseeability of criminal acts.

Services

Dr. Gray has assessed the foreseeability of crime in premises liability, negligent security and negligent hiring and retention of employees. These cases involved criminal acts occurring at the following locations:

Bars
Restaurants
Apartment buildings
Fast food outlets
Convenience stores
Parking facilities
Mental health facilities
Hospitals
Educational facilities
Shopping centers/Malls
Music festivals and concerts

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Jane Gray, Ph.D. provides expert testimony in cases involving premise liability and negligent hiring and retention by evaluating the foreseeability of crime. She does this by using her knowledge and research regarding decision-making by offenders as well as identifying and examining the correlates of crime that are relevant to each case.

Areas of Expertise

Criminal
Foreseeability of Criminal Events
Litigation
Negligent Hiring

Negligent Retention
Premises Liability
Premises Security
School Violence

Security
Security Negligence
Violent Crimes
Wrongful Death

Profile

Dr. Gray has consulted with a number of public and private agencies as well as attorneys on matters concerning social science research in general, and criminal/deviant behavior in particular. With respect to her legal consulting, her area of expertise resides in identifying the foreseeability of crime largely by evaluating the environment as would a criminal offender. Her extensive research and experience with prison inmates provides the necessary framework for determining how offenders estimate their risk of criminal apprehension and the likelihood of a successful criminal outcome.

Jane Gray received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Sociology/criminology in 1988. Since then, she has taught at Florida State University, Ohio State University, and Capital University in Columbus, Ohio where she holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Behavioral Sciences.

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio - Senior Lecturer (2005 - retired 2015)

Capital University, Columbus, Ohio - Professor Emeritus (2002 - present)

Capital University, Columbus, Ohio - Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences (2000-2001)

Capital University, Columbus, Ohio - Associate Professor, Criminology (1993-2001)

Capital University, Columbus, Ohio - Assistant Professor, Criminology (1988-1992)

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida - Assistant Professor, Criminology (1987-1988)

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio - Adjunct Professor, Prison Program (1987-1991)

Dix & Eaton, Figgie Crime Report, Offender Risk Perception (1987)