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Dr. Beth Ellen Adubato is Professor of Criminal Justice and a Fulbright Scholar. She studied Religion and Theatre at the College of William and Mary. She later graduated with a B.A. in English from Rutgers University where she earned highest honors, college honors, and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Adubato has an MA in Criminal Justice from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers and an MPAP from the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, also at Rutgers. She was an Excellence Fellow at SCJ and a Raimondo Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Through the Raimondo Fellowship, Beth served at the Office of Legislative Services at the Department of Public Safety. Her research focused on Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, New Jersey’s women’s prison. She presented her research to both houses of the state legislature in the spring of 2002.

She earned her Ph.D. in 2011, also from Rutgers, and her dissertation, Fanning the Flames: Televised, Professional Football and Domestic Violence has been made into a book. Dr. Adubato has written articles for peer-reviewed journals, government publications, book reviews, encyclopedias, and has made dozens of conference presentations, as well as contributions to documentaries on gender issues. In 2009, when President Barack Obama issued his “Dear Colleague” letter expanding Title IX to include investigations of all accusations of sexual assault on college campuses, she was the keynote speaker at the Department of Justice. In addition to her dissertation, she is the author of Grammar for Grownups and Life’s a Mother, a novel. She and her co-authors have a peer-reviewed book titled, Crime in TV, the News, and Film: Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation (2022). The same team is presently writing a textbook for Sports & Crime classes called, Out of Bounds: The Intersection of Sports & Crime.

In AY22-23, Dr. Adubato received a Fulbright Award and conducted research in Belgium, while teaching a course to doctoral students at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her project looked at the relationship between football hooliganism and domestic violence, with a focus on the rise of right-wing extremism. During the summer she teaches Sports & Crime at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.

Before her academic career, in 1996, Adubato became a news anchor in Alpena, Michigan, at the smallest CBS affiliate in the country. From there, she was the morning news anchor at the NBC affiliate in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1998, she was the first female “weekend guy” (the term for the number two sports anchor at a station). She primarily covered SEC sports and NASCAR. Next, she worked at Metro TV in New York City, Court TV, and at News 12 New Jersey from 2005 to 2013. As an actor, she has appeared as a reporter on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Following, and Cupid.

Dr. Adubato is the founder and executive directive of The LINDA Organization, a nonprofit that assists women who are adversely affected by the criminal justice system. LINDA operates as a student organization with Saint Peter’s University holding the “alpha chapter.” Saint Louis University has the beta chapter and other chapters are being developed at Rutgers, Felician, Montclair State, and Raritan Valley Community College. The SPU chapter of LINDA will hold its first conference in the spring of 2027.

Dr. Adubato is a member of four unions—SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, the SPU chapter of AAUP, and RAFU. She is also a delegate to the AFTNJ and is part of the NY Metro Coalition for Higher Education. She is on the alumni board of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She serves as a feminist assembly leader for the Women’s March organization. She is the faculty advisor for the SPU chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society and runs the annual “Take Back the Night” event, which is co-sponsored by LINDA.