Welcome! I am Dr. Shteynberg and here’s some info about me:
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at California State University San Bernardino. I am also a Research Fellow at the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety. I received my Ph.D. and M.A. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY. I received my B.A. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. I serve as a faculty adviser for the CSUSB Criminal Justice Research Center (CCJR), and the Research and Policy Director for the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate Crime and Extremism.
For a copy of my CV, click here. Want to stay in touch? Here's my LinkedIn.
Feel free to email me for a copy of my articles and reports if you can’t access the full publication online and I will send you a pre-print!
I provide consulting services in criminal justice research, program evaluation, and policy analysis, helping organizations, government agencies,a nonprofits turn data into actionable insights. My work includes designing and conducting research using both primary data collection and secondary data analysis, employing quantitative and qualitative methodologies as appropriate, including interviews, focus groups, historical and legislative analysis, case studies, media analysis, dataset cleaning and recoding, and advanced statistical modeling of large-scale datasets. For example, I consult for the CA Racial Justice Act Data and Research Consortium, where I advise attorneys during Ready Response Office Hours on the development and evaluation of statistically valid claims of racial disparity in criminal legal proceedings, and draft several data protocols and research guides (including the most recent data protocol brief on Understanding and Measuring Disparity: Interpreting Risks and Ratios in RJA Cases).
My research broadly focuses on access to justice and issues surrounding criminal justice decision-making policies and practices, including plea bargaining and adjudication, court and legal reform, pretrial detention, juvenile justice, law enforcement, program implementation and evaluation, and research methodologies. You can see an overview of my research here and view my current projects, grants, and consulting here.
My work as a faculty member is grounded in the belief that teaching, research, and service are not separate domains, but interconnected dimensions of a larger mission: to contribute to a more just, equitable, and informed criminal legal system and to prepare students to do the same. Across all aspects of my professional activity, I aim to build connections between the classroom and the community, between research and real-world policy, and between student support and broader engagement.
And personally? Well, I’m a Los Angeles native, hiking and photography novice, travel and architecture enthusiast, crossfit amateur, yoga and music habitue, coffee and science fiction addict, cooking Macgyver, toddler mom, and formerly a neighbor to a family of four very silly deer and a forest full of (avocado-loving, northeast-hipster) squirrels.
If you’re curious about how to pronounce my name, just say Rebeka but replace the ‘b’ with a ‘v’ – Reh-veh-kah. The last name is a bit more complicated, but if you pronounce the word ‘stain’ and modify it to be ‘shtain’ you’ll know how to pronounce Sh-teyn-berg.
