Expertise
Open Access, Open Science, No-Cost Learning
Bio
Scott Jacques is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Georgia State University (GSU), associate director of its Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS), founder of CrimRxiv, and leads the CrimRxiv Consortium. His mission is to advance the quality and quantity of no-cost educational materials and open-access (OA) scientific outputs. As a criminologist, he mitigates crime and improves control, especially in the digital world. As a utilitarian scientist, his moral duty is to improve the world for the greatest good by identifying and solving problems of the empirical world. This philosophy is evident in his neologisms, “open criminology” and “proterrence.” He considers himself successful to the extent he generates real-world utility for everyone — a “return-on-investment” (ROI) — with processes that are evidence-based and falsifiable. For every dollar he’s given, he wants to save or generate at least two dollars. Before the next decade, he wants to achieve a 10x ROI. Toward that end, he uses theory, data and analytic tools to iteratively invent, implement and assess falsifiable solutions to concrete problems. He publishes everything possible OA because it’s good for science, social justice and thus ROI. His professional duties are “research,” “teaching” and “service.” He performs them as a public servant and private entrepreneur at GSU, EBCS and CrimRxiv.