Jason Dobrow

Jason Dobrow, Ph.D., is an affiliate faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His areas of expertise include policing, constitutional law, criminal procedure and a wide range of criminological topics, with a specialized focus on personality and crime, deception, false confessions, false accusations, con artistry, and psychopathy. 

Dobrow’s research examines the relationship between psychopathic personality traits and lying, as well as how personality influences criminal behavior. His work appears in publications including Deviant Behavior, The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice, The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment and the Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime. He has also served as a reviewer for the American Journal of Criminal Justice. 

Dobrow has been featured as a national expert in Health.com, where he provided analysis on high-profile false accusation cases. He has also consulted on true-crime television projects as an expert on deception and false confessions.

In addition to his academic work, Dobrow brings professional experience in counseling, restorative justice and school-based behavioral intervention. His background includes serving as a school guidance counselor, restorative justice coordinator and treatment clinician in community settings, informing his applied perspective on criminal behavior, juvenile justice and intervention systems. 

Dobrow earned a doctorate in criminology from the University of South Florida. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of Colorado Denver and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Arizona State University