CLS Doctoral Candidates on the Job Market

Several doctoral students from the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at Mason are on the job market in 2026-2027. Please click on the student names below to access their academic biography and CV.

 

  • Talley Bettens

    Talley Bettens

    Graduate Research Assistant

     

     

     

    Dissertation Title: Schoolhouse Interrogations and Confessions: Perspectives from Principals and Students 

    Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Allison Redlich

    Interests: Adolescent legal decision-making, interrogations, guilty pleas, miscarriages of justice

     
  • Hayley Carlisle

    Hayley Carlisle

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

     

     

     

    Dissertation Title: The Jail House Rules: Drivers and Responses to Selective Rule Enforcement in a Local Jail

    Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Evan Lowder

    Interests: Corrections, jail-based research, institutional rule enforcement, carceral suicide, pretrial processing

     
  • Wei-Gin Lee

    Wei-Gin Lee

    Graduate Research Assistant

     

     

     

    Dissertation Title: Why officers leave policing: A study of a large agency’s loss of officers between 2018-2025

    Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Lum

    Interests: Policing; cybercrime; police retention and turnover; quantitative methods

    Website: Lee LinkedIn Profile

     
  • Timo Zheng

    Timo Zheng

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

     

     

     

    Dissertation Title: Employment, Family, and Criminal Justice Re-Engagement During Prisoner Reentry

    Dissertation Advisor: Dr. César Rebellon

    Interests: Prisoner Reentry, Family Relationships, Quantitative Methods, Community Health, General Theory of Crime