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Criminology, Law and Society

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Faculty and Staff

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  • Catherine A Gallagher

    Catherine A Gallagher

    Associate Professor

    Intersection between health care and justice agencies, health and safety of justice-involved person, juvenile justice, federal data collections

  • Charlotte Gill

    Charlotte Gill

    Research Assistant Professor

    Crime prevention, juvenile justice, place-based criminology, evidence-based policy, program evaluation, quantitative methods, research synthesis

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  • Devon Johnson

    Devon Johnson

    Associate Professor
    Director of Graduate Programs, Criminology, Law and Society

    Public opinion on criminal justice issues, race and criminal justice, politics of crime and justice policy, survey methods

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  • Christopher Koper

    Christopher Koper

    Associate Professor

    Firearms, violence, and public policy, police and crime control, organizational change in policing, policy and program evaluation, assessment of crime trends

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  • Brian Lawton

    Brian Lawton

    Assistant Professor

    Geographic correlates of crime, theories and explanations of deviance, police discretion

  • Cynthia Lum

    Cynthia Lum

    Associate Professor

    Policing, crime and place, criminal justice evaluation research, democratization and justice, counterterrorism.

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  • Stephen D Mastrofski

    Stephen D Mastrofski

    University Professor

    Police discretion, police organizations and their reform, systematic field observation methods in criminology

  • Linda Merola

    Linda Merola

    Assistant Professor

    Civil liberties, terrorism, evidence-based courts, public opinion and survey/experimental methods

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  • Lisa Newmark

    Lisa Newmark

    Associate Professor
    Director of Undergraduate Programs, Criminology, Law and Society

    Justice system's and society's response to victims of crime

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  • Laurie Robinson

    Laurie Robinson

    Professor

    Crime and public policy, federal role in supporting translational criminology and criminal justice innovation, public management and strategic leadership in criminal justice

  • Danielle S Rudes

    Danielle S Rudes

    Assistant Professor

    Organizational change, community corrections (probation/parole), prisons, law & society, prisoner reentry, evidence-based courts, implementation studies, street-level bureaucrats, and qualitative methods

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  • Faye Taxman

    Faye Taxman

    University Professor

    Health services and correctional research, evidence based courts and corrections, program design and interventions, experimentation and evaluation, organizational change, seamless systems of care

  • Allan Turner

    Allan Turner

    Professor

    Corrections, homeland security, security technology, threat, risk and vulnerability assessment

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  • David Weisburd

    David Weisburd

    Professor

    Police innovation, geography of crime (crime and place), experimental criminology, statistics and research methods, white collar crime

  • James Willis

    James Willis

    Associate Professor

    Police organizations, police reform, police decision making, punishment in an historical context

  • David B Wilson

    David B Wilson

    Professor
    Chair, Criminology, Law and Society

    Crime prevention and correctional treatment programs, meta-analysis, quantitative research methods

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  • Matthew Zingraff

    Matthew Zingraff

    Professor
    Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

    Crime and social control, police behavior, biased-based policing, racial profiling