Faculty

Deborah Koetzle
Executive Officer

Valli Rajah
Deputy Executive Officer

Teresa A. Booker
Policy, Oversight & Administration Deputy Executive Officer

Chongmin Na
Quantitative Methods I & II

Brian Lawton
Research Methods I and II

Valli Rajah
Research Methods I and II

Eric Piza
Criminal Justice Process & Policy I and II

Kevin Wolff
Criminological Theory I and II

Amy Adamczyk
Academic Advisor

Jeff Mellow
Academic Advisor

Adamczyk, Amy

Religion, Deviance and Crime, Sociological Theory, Health

Andreopoulos, George

War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide

Arsovska, Jana

International Criminal Justice, Criminology Sociology

Barberet, Rosemary

Crime Indicators, Violence Against Women, Gender and Crime, Cross-Cultural Methodology

Booker, Teresa A.

Restorative Justice, Policy Implementation, African Indigenous Courts, Access to Education

Brotherton, David

Juvenile Crime & Justice, Gangs, Qualitative Research, Ethnographic Methods in Criminal Justice

Butts, Jeffrey A.

Evaluation of Policies and Programs, especially designed to prevent and reduce youth crime.

Calkins, Cynthia

Sexual Offending, Sexual Violence Policy and Prevention, Sex Crime Legislation

Celinska, Katarzyna

Violence Prevention, Corrections and Gender

Chauhan, Preeti

Policing, Public Policy, and Corrections

Cohen, Shuki

Psychology and Criminology

Crossman, Angela

Memory Development, Child Suggestibility, Child Witness Accuracy & Credibility, Deception & False Beliefs

Fondacaro, Mark R.

Procedural and Distributive Justice, Multicultural Competence and Decision Making, Ecological Jurisprudence, Family Conflict Resolution, and Juvenile Justice

Freilich, Joshua D.

Causes of & Responses to Terrorism, Environmental Criminology, Measurement Issues

Goff, Phillip A.

Race, Policing, Social Psychology, Bias/Intersectionality

Green, David

Crime and the Media, Crime and Public Opinion, Crime and Political Culture, Comparative Criminology, Sentencing, Sociology of Punishment, Qualitative Methods

Haberfeld, Maria (Maki)

Policing with Emphasis on Comparative, Training, Leadership, Integrity and Ethics, Comparative Criminal Justice, Counter-Terrorism

Jacobs, Jonathan A.

Ethics, Theories of Punishment, Relation Between Law and Morality, Criminalization

Kazemian, Lila

Life-course and Criminal Career Research, Desistance from Crime, Prisoner Reentry, Comparative Research

Koetzle, Deborah

Corrections, Drug Courts, Risk/Need Assessment, Program Evaluation

Kovera, Margaret

Eyewitness Identification, Jury and Judge Decision Making, Scientific Evidence

Lawton, Brian

Crime and Place, Intersection of Health and Criminal Justice, GIS

Majic, Samantha

Qualitative Methods, Sex Work / Sex Industry

Mandery, Evan J.

Capital Punishment, Evidence Law & Ethics

Maxfield, Michael

Environmental Criminology, Research Methods, Policing, and Policy, Oversight & Administration

McCoy, Candace *Currently on Leave

Police and Municipal Governance, Courts, Law and Society, Plea Bargaining and Sentencing

Mellow, Jeff

Issues in Correctional Policy, Practice and Organizational Effectiveness, Community Corrections, Reentry, Evaluation of Criminal Justice Programs, Critical Incidents in Prisons and Jails

Na, Chongmin

Life-Course Criminology, Program Evaluation, Quantitative Methods

Natarajan, Mangai

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

Ocejo, Richard E.

Urban Sociology and Urban Theory, Culture, Cultural Economy, Community Studies, Ethnography/Qualitative Methods, Public Space Work

Petrossian, Gohar

Environmental Criminology, Wildlife Crime, Problem-Oriented Policing, Spatial Analysis of Crime

Piza, Eric

GIS Mapping, Evidence-Base Policing, Program Evaluation, Crime Control Technology

Pontell, Henry N.

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

Porter, Jeremy

Quantitative Methods/Statistics, Ecological Criminology, Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Analysis of Social Data, Inequalities and Stratification

Rajah, Valli

Race and Ethnic Relations, Intimate Partner Violence, Sociological Theory & Substance Use

Salfati, Gabrielle

Offender Profiling, Homicide, Sexual Offences, Research Methodology

Shane, Jon M.

Police Policy and Practice, Violent Crime, and Situational Crime Prevention, Theoretical Interests include Routine Activities, Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology

Sung, Hung-En

Substance Abuse and Treatments, Political Corruption, Policing, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Program Evaluation

Terry, Karen

Sexual Abuse, Victimization, Sex Offender Policy

Ungar, Mark

Criminal Justice Policy, Inspection and Oversight

Varsanyi, Monica W.

Immigration/Immigrant Law, Politics, Policy (including implementation) at the Local, State, and Federal Levels in the United States, Law and Society, Urban Politics and Policy

West, Valerie

Criminal Justice, Sociology

Widom, Cathy Spatz

Psychology, Quantitative Research Methods

Wolff, Kevin

Spatial Patterning of Crime, Criminological Theory, Quantitative Methods and Juvenile Justice

Yu, Sung-suk Violet

Environmental Criminology, Correctional Health, Spatial Pattern Analysis, Crime Prevention

Zapf, Patricia A.

Forensic Psychology, Competencies (criminal and civil) and Decision Making Capacity, Forensic Assessment, Development and Validation of Forensic Assessment Instruments, Psychometrics, Insanity

Benton, Warren “Ned”

Public Administration, Organizational Theory, Corrections, Computer & Criminal Justice

Booker, Teresa A.

Restorative Justice, Policy Implementation, African Indigenous Courts, Access to Education

Brown, Heath

Public Policy Process, Justice Policy, Interest Groups, Immigration, NonProfit Studies

Haberfeld, Maria (Maki)

Policing with Emphasis on Comparative, Training, Leadership, Integrity and Ethics, Comparative Criminal Justice, Counter-Terrorism

Kennedy, David

Crime Prevention Strategies, Policing, Gangs & Deterrence, Policy, Oversight and Administration

Koetzle, Deborah

Corrections, Drug Courts, Risk/Need Assessment, Program Evaluation

Mameli, Peter

Inspection and Oversight, Public Management

Maras, Marie-Helen

Cybercrime, Transnational Terrorism, Transnational Security, Surveillance

Markus, Keith A.

Test Validity, Program Evaluation, Discourse, Organizational Structure & Change, Interpretation of Statistical & Causal Models and Policy, Oversight and Administration

O’Hara, Patrick

Organization & Management

Raghavan, Chitra

Intimiate Partner Homicide, Intimate Partner Rape, Femicide and Policy, Oversight and Administration

Rubin, Marilyn Marks

Economics and Crime, Measurement of Crime

Schwester, Richard W.

Public Management, Organization Theory and Management, Research Methods

Carpi, Anthony

Environmental and Forensic Toxicology

Hoffman, Donald

Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry

Kobilinsky, Lawrence

Molecular Biology, Biology, Forensic DNA Analysis

Kubic, Thomas

Chemical Instrumentation, Electron Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Scientific Evidence

Li, Richard

Forensic Science, Forensic Biology and Molecular Biology

Petraco, Nicholas D. K.

Statistical Pattern Recognition of Trace Evidence, Quantum Chemistry, and Mathematical Chemical Physics

Prinz, Mechthild

Forensic Genetics, Forensic Biomarkers, Crime Laboratory Ethics and Quality Assurance

Reffner, John

Developing Microscopy, Microanalysis and Imaging Technology & Exploring their Utility in Forensic Science

Criminal Justice

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