Jane Gray received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in sociology/criminology in 1988. Since then, she has taught at Florida State University’s School of Criminology, Ohio State University, and Capital University in Columbus, where she holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. She 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 legal counseling, her area of expertise resides in identifying the forseeability of crime largely be evaluating the environment, as would a criminal offender. Dr. Gray’s extensive expertise 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. She has also provided expert witness testimony in cases involving negligent hiring and retention, crowd control, disaster preparedness, wrongful death, alcohol-related crime, sex offenses, and obscenity. At Ohio State, she teaches Sociology 605: Sociology of Sexuality.
