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Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Human ServicesVirginia McGovern, Ph.D., came to the Mount from BGSU in Ohio in August 2005, earning tenure in 2011. She currently serves as a faculty marshal and on the Faculty Governance Committee.
She has also served as chair of the department, vice-chair of the faculty, faculty athletic representative for the university, chair of the Athletic Advisory Committee, and co-chair of a committee on Middle States. McGovern volunteers at the Gettysburg Police Department and the Heritage Festival in Gettysburg.
McGovern, Virginia, Steve Demuth, and Joe Jacoby. Racial and Ethnic Recidivism Risks: A Comparison of Postincarceratation Rearrest, Reconviction, and Reincarceration Among White, Black, and Hispanic Releasees. The Prison Journal, Vol. 89, No. 3, 309-327 (2009).
McGovern, Virginia. Trash Talk-Fee Evasion and Techniques of Neutralization by Older Women in Response to Rising Garbage Collection Fees. The Internet Journal of Criminology 2010.
McGovern, Virginia and Stephen Demuth. Race/Ethnicity and Recidivism Risk: The Importance of Considering Nativity when examining White-Black-Hispanic Differences. International Journal of Sociological Research. Vol. 3, Nos. 1-2, (January-December, 2010) 19-34.
McGovern is currently working on two books and three journal articles.