Dakota Schroll, M.A.

Dakota Schroll teaches criminal justice at Wayne State College. Schroll is currently a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha and is considered ABD (all but dissertation completed). Prior to coming to WSC, Schroll was a graduate teaching and research assistant for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice along with the Nebraska Center for Justice Research (NCJR).

Schroll is a member of several national and internation honor societies including Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Gamma Mu, Lambda Pi Eta, Alpha Phi Sigma, and Psi Chi and is a member of the American Society for Criminology. Schroll has presented developmental psychology and criminological presentations at national conferences. He is also a member of the Wayne Public Library Board of Trustees.

Schroll’s teaching interests revolve around mental health and criminal justice, criminology, criminal and specialty courts, violent crimes, victimization, antisocial behavior, individual differences in crime, quantitative methodology, social science statistics, and risk/needs assessment. Schroll’s research interests revolve around biopsychosocial criminology, including individual differences in criminality and victimization, autonomic nervous system functionality and antisocial behavior, risk and needs assessment development and validation, cross-cultural comparisons of crime and deviance, along with the social construction of crime, deviance, and law.

Education
M.A. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2022
B.A. Psychology and Criminal Justice, Wayne State College, 2020