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

Amy Adamczyk

Religion, Deviance and Crime, Sociological Theory, Health

George Andreopoulos

War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide

Jana Arsovska

International Criminal Justice, Criminology Sociology

Rosemary Barberet

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

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

Jeffrey A. Butts

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

Cynthia Calkins

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

Katarzyna Celinska

Violence Prevention, Corrections and Gender

Preeti Chauhan

Policing, Public Policy, and Corrections

Shuki Cohen

Psychology and Criminology

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

Phillip A. Goff

Race, Policing, Social Psychology, Bias/Intersectionality

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

Deborah Koetzle

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

Margaret Kovera

Eyewitness Identification, Jury and Judge Decision Making, Scientific Evidence

Brian Lawton

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

Samantha Majic

Qualitative Methods, Sex Work / Sex Industry

Evan J. Mandery

Capital Punishment, Evidence Law & Ethics

Michael Maxfield

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

Candace McCoy *Currently on Leave

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

Chongmin Na

Life-Course Criminology, Program Evaluation, Quantitative Methods

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

Gohar Petrossian

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

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

Jeremy Porter

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

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

Monica W. Varsanyi

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

Valerie West

Criminal Justice, Sociology

Cathy Spatz Widom

Psychology, Quantitative Research Methods

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

Warren “Ned” Benton

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

Teresa A. Booker

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

Heath Brown

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

Maria (Maki) Haberfeld

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

David Kennedy

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

Deborah Koetzle

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

Peter Mameli

Inspection and Oversight, Public Management

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

Patrick O’Hara

Organization & Management

Chitra Raghavan

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

Marilyn Marks Rubin

Economics and Crime, Measurement of Crime

Richard W. Schwester

Public Management, Organization Theory and Management, Research Methods

Anthony Carpi

Environmental and Forensic Toxicology

Donald Hoffman

Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry

Lawrence Kobilinsky

Molecular Biology, Biology, Forensic DNA Analysis

Thomas Kubic

Chemical Instrumentation, Electron Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Scientific Evidence

Richard Li

Forensic Science, Forensic Biology and Molecular Biology

Nicholas D. K. Petraco

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

Mechthild Prinz

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

John Reffner

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

Criminal Justice

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