Valli Rajah
Executive Officer
Brian Lawton
Deputy Executive Officer
Brian Lawton
Quantitative Methods I & II
Gohar Petrossian
Research Methods I and II
Samantha Majic
Research Methods I and II
Lila Kazemian
Criminological Theory I and II
Kevin Wolff
Research Advisor
Karen Terry
Academic Advisor
Amy Adamczyk |
Religion, Deviance and Crime, Sociological Theory, Health |
Jana Arsovska |
International Criminal Justice, Criminology Sociology |
Rosemary Barberet |
Crime Indicators, Violence Against Women, Gender and Crime, Cross-Cultural Methodology |
Warren “Ned” Benton |
Public Administration, Organizational Theory, Corrections, Computer & Criminal Justice |
Teresa A. Booker |
Restorative Justice, Policy Implementation, African Indigenous Courts, Access to Education |
David Brotherton |
Juvenile Crime & Justice, Gangs, Qualitative Research, Ethnographic Methods in Criminal Justice |
Heath Brown |
Public Policy Process, Justice Policy, Interest Groups, Immigration, NonProfit Studies |
Jeffrey A. Butts |
Evaluation of Policies and Programs, especially designed to prevent and reduce youth crime. |
Angela Crossman |
Memory Development, Child Suggestibility, Child Witness Accuracy & Credibility, Deception & False Beliefs |
Mark R. Fondacaro |
Procedural and Distributive Justice, Multicultural Competence and Decision Making, Ecological Jurisprudence, Family Conflict Resolution, and Juvenile Justice |
Joshua D. Freilich |
Causes of & Responses to Terrorism, Environmental Criminology, Measurement Issues |
David Green |
Crime and the Media, Crime and Public Opinion, Crime and Political Culture, Comparative Criminology, Sentencing, Sociology of Punishment, Qualitative Methods |
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld |
Policing with Emphasis on Comparative, Training, Leadership, Integrity and Ethics, Comparative Criminal Justice, Counter-Terrorism |
Jonathan A. Jacobs |
Ethics, Theories of Punishment, Relation Between Law and Morality, Criminalization |
Lila Kazemian |
Life-course and Criminal Career Research, Desistance from Crime, Prisoner Reentry, Comparative Research |
David Kennedy |
Crime Prevention Strategies, Policing, Gangs & Deterrence, Policy, Oversight and Administration |
Deborah Koetzle |
Corrections, Drug Courts, Risk/Need Assessment, Program Evaluation |
Margaret Kovera |
Eyewitness Identification, Jury and Judge Decision Making, Scientific Evidence |
Thomas Kubic |
Chemical Instrumentation, Electron Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Scientific Evidence |
Brian Lawton |
Crime and Place, Intersection of Health and Criminal Justice, GIS |
Richard Li |
Forensic Science, Forensic Biology and Molecular Biology |
Marie-Helen Maras |
Cybercrime, Transnational Terrorism, Transnational Security, Surveillance |
Keith A. Markus |
Test Validity, Program Evaluation, Discourse, Organizational Structure & Change, Interpretation of Statistical & Causal Models and Policy, Oversight and Administration |
Michael Maxfield |
Environmental Criminology, Research Methods, Policing, and Policy, Oversight & Administration |
Candace McCoy |
Police and Municipal Governance, Courts, Law and Society, Plea Bargaining and Sentencing |
Jeff Mellow |
Issues in Correctional Policy, Practice and Organizational Effectiveness, Community Corrections, Reentry, Evaluation of Criminal Justice Programs, Critical Incidents in Prisons and Jails |
Mangai Natarajan |
Criminological Theory, Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, Cross-Cultural Studies in Criminal Justice, Drug Trafficking, Policing, Comparative Cross-Cultural Research, International Criminal Justice and Violence against Women |
Richard E. Ocejo |
Urban Sociology and Urban Theory, Culture, Cultural Economy, Community Studies, Ethnography/Qualitative Methods, Public Space Work |
Nicholas D. K. Petraco |
Statistical Pattern Recognition of Trace Evidence, Quantum Chemistry, and Mathematical Chemical Physics |
Gohar Petrossian |
Environmental Criminology, Wildlife Crime, Problem-Oriented Policing, Spatial Analysis of Crime |
Frank Pezzella |
Causes, Correlates, & Consequences of Hate Crimes Victimizations |
Eric Piza |
GIS Mapping, Evidence-Base Policing, Program Evaluation, Crime Control Technology |
Henry N. Pontell |
Deviance and Social Control, White-Collar and Corporate Crime, Punishment and Criminal Justice System Capacity Issues, Financial and Health Care Fraud, Identity Theft, Comparative Criminology, and Cyber Crime |
Mechthild Prinz |
Forensic Genetics, Forensic Biomarkers, Crime Laboratory Ethics and Quality Assurance |
Chitra Raghavan |
Intimiate Partner Homicide, Intimate Partner Rape, Femicide and Policy, Oversight and Administration |
Valli Rajah |
Victimology, Resistance studies, and sociology of the body |
Gabrielle Salfati |
Offender Profiling, Homicide, Sexual Offences, Research Methodology |
Jon M. Shane |
Police Policy and Practice, Violent Crime, and Situational Crime Prevention, Theoretical Interests include Routine Activities, Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology |
Hung-En Sung |
Substance Abuse and Treatments, Political Corruption, Policing, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Program Evaluation |
Karen Terry |
Sexual Abuse, Victimization, Sex Offender Policy |
Mark Ungar |
Criminal Justice Policy, Inspection and Oversight |
Kevin Wolff |
Spatial Patterning of Crime, Criminological Theory, Quantitative Methods and Juvenile Justice |
Sung-suk Violet Yu |
Environmental Criminology, Correctional Health, Spatial Pattern Analysis, Crime Prevention |
Patricia A. Zapf |
Forensic Psychology, Competencies (criminal and civil) and Decision Making Capacity, Forensic Assessment, Development and Validation of Forensic Assessment Instruments, Psychometrics, Insanity |