Dr. Lee C. Bushong

Lee Creighton Bushong

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
EMAIL
PHONE
850-599-3000
OFFICE
Criminal Justice

 

Office Hours

Perry Paige Bldg. Room #412B

Monday/Wednesday •  10:00 a.m - 11:OO a.m
Tuesday/ • 12:30 p.m - 1:3O p.m

Current Semester Schedule

CCJ 3718 Statistics in Criminal Justicde •  Mon. Wed. Fri — 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
CCJ 4937 Special Topics: Patterns Of Criminal Behavior •  Mon. Wed. Fri — 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
ENY 3701C Forensic Entomology •  Tue. Thu. — 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
CJL 4065 American Criminal Law • Online
CCJ 5941 Spec Top Criminal Justice II • Online

About Me

Dr. Bushong is a professor of forensics and criminal justice in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to both graduate and undergraduate students. His focus is on medicolegal death investigation, focusing on postmortem intervals through histology, entomology, and archaeology.

He is a former law enforcement officer, experienced in violent crime investigations such as homicide, police shootings, and terrestrial and underwater crime scene investigations before joining the academe. He has served over the last decade with the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operational Response System (FEMORS) through the University of Florida’s William R. Maples Center of Forensic Medicine at the College of Medicine.

Dr. Bushong provides nearly 30 years of investigative and applied education to students, offering opportunities to students to engage in hands-on medicolegal research and training. He is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Entomological Society of America.  

Areas of Interest

  • Postmortem Interval Estimation

  • Violent Crime

  • Homicide Resolution 

Education

  • Capella University • 2017
    Ph.D. in Criminal Justice
  • Florida Gulf Coast University • 2013
    M.S. in Forensic Studies
    (Human remains identification and trauma analysis; forensic behavior analysis)
  • Barry University • 2004
    B.S. in Psychology

Work History

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice •  May 2018 - Present
    Florida A&M University

Courses Taught At FAMU

  • Statistics in Criminal Justice 
  • Forensic Entomology 
  • Forensic Death Investigation
  • Forensic Science: Archaeology 
  • Forensic Behavior Analysis 
  • Domestic Violence (Special Topics in CJ) 
  • Special Populations (Special Topics in Corrections) 
  • American Court Systems 
  • Police and Society
  • Cases in Corrections
  • Theories of Criminal Behavior