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Robert M. Lombardo
Professor Emeritus
Department:  Criminal Justice

Dr. Robert M. Lombardo, a sociologist, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and a member of the graduate faculty at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Lombardo has been teaching at Loyola as an adjunct faculty member since 2001 and was appointed full-time to the faculty in 2005. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1994.

His dissertation, Recruitment into Organized Crime: A Study of Social Structural Support of Deviance, earned the prestigious Hans Mattick Award, presented by the Illinois Academy of Criminology, for outstanding contributions to criminal justice research.

Dr. Lombardo is a 35-year police veteran having served 30 years with the Chicago Police Department and five years as the Deputy Chief of the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department. He has worked in all areas of police work, including patrol, investigations, narcotics, administration, and organized crime. In addition, Dr. Lombardo has taught, as a visiting scholar, at numerous police training academies including the Chicago Police Academy; the Illinois State Police Academy; the Police School of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; and the Police Staff and Command College, Bramshill, England.

Dr. Lombardo was appointed in 2000 by Illinois Governor George Ryan to serve on the Illinois Wireless Enhanced 911 Board and was a member of the Cook County Emergency Telephone System Board from 1997 to 2001. He also served as a consultant to the Illinois Integrated Justice Information Systems Implementation Board from 2002 to 2005. Dr. Lombardo has served as a peer reviewer and guest editor for the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice and a book reviewer for the American Journal of Sociology.

This expert is listed in the following categories:

• Organized Crime

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