Criminal procedure, criminal courts, deterrence, juvenile justice.
Corrections, translational research, alternatives to incarceration, reentry programs, prisoner treatment, and minority populations.
Criminal Justice Management, Leadership, Public Policy, Public Administration, Technology Deployment, Traffic Safety
Law enforcement leadership, leadership of diverse populations, analytic methods
Research interests include racial disparity in the criminal justice system, perceptions of excessive police use of force, community corrections, evidenced based practices in parole and probation.
Federal courts, legal decision making, legal empirical research, psychology and law, judicial education
Legal Decision-Making, False Admissions of Guilt, Wrongful Convictions and Exonerees
Quantitative data modeling, predictive analytics, police intelligence, organized crime, courts, and offender rehabilitation.
Crime analysis, crime mapping, predictive policing, spatial analysis, network analysis
Racial Inequality/Disparity in the CJS; Juvenile Justice; Corrections; Program Evaluation
Plea bargaining, legal decision-making, courts & criminal procedures, program evaluation and policy implementation
Violence prevention, youth gangs, firearms, community violence and health, life-course criminology/criminal careers, research design and quantitative methods
Crime Analysis, Crime Prevention, Deterrence, Crime and Place, Threat Analysis, Operations Research, Program Evaluations
Wrongful convictions, legal decision-making, courts and criminal law
Corrections, juvenile delinquency, prevention, community corrections, organizational change
Psychology and Law, Legal decision making, Online child sexual abuse and exploitation, Interviewing and interrogations, Pre-arrest diversion programs, Global policing
Policing Innovation, Privacy and Technology, Political Violence and Terrorism; International Criminal Law; National Security,
Community policing, crime mapping, criminal behavior, tactical critical events planning, police administration and mapping
Juvenile Justice; Health outcomes and delivery for vulnerable populations; Suicide, injury, illness and deaths in confinement; Evidence synthesis and big data analytics for healthcare and justice policy
Community-based crime prevention, place-based criminology, policing, youth and crime, program evaluation, mixed-methods research, research synthesis
Policing, the disorder-crime association, evidence-based crime policy, crime and place
Corrections, solitary confinement, prison culture, victimology, organizational culture, social inequalities, public policy, health and the criminal justice system
Criminal law and procedure, legal ethics, trial practice and evidence
Community Corrections, Treatment Courts, Probation, Re-entry, Program Evaluation
Victimization, technology, economic empowerment of vulnerable populations; crime prevention, evidence synthesis
Place-based criminology, international terrorism, Mental Health and Criminal Justice System
Community policing, police and mental health, police training and mental health, police training and autism spectrum disorders, intersection of law and psychology
Public opinion on criminal justice issues, race and criminal justice, politics of crime and justice policy, survey methods
Intelligence and national security, transnational crime, organized crime, law enforcement policy making and reform
Criminal Psychology, police Impersonators, police and forensic psychology, psychological screening, psychology and law
Mental health and substance use disorders, victimization of vulnerable populations, human trafficking, police and prosecutorial decision-making
Firearms, violence, and public policy; police and crime control; technology and organizational change in policing; policy and program evaluation
Policing, police legitimacy, crime and place, evidence-based crime policy, and quantitative analysis
Criminal investigation, prosecution and justice for defendants and victims
Justice-involved behavioral health populations, mental health courts and diversion programs, risk assessment, racial disparities, opioid crisis, quantitative research methods
Mental Health and Criminal Justice System, Substance Abuse, Crime and Place and Quantitative Methods
Policing, technology, evidence-based crime policy, translational criminology, crime prevention, evaluation research
Specialty Courts, Legal Decision-Making, and False Admissions of Guilt
Reentry, community supervision, corrections, qualitative methods, survey research
Wrongful Convictions | Juvenile Justice | Social Justice Issues | Institutional Protectionism
Organizational Change, Corrections, Process Evaluations and Applied/Participatory Action Research
Crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, International development, Pre-trial justice, Corrections, Re-entry.
Police discretion, police organizations and their reform, systematic field observation methods in criminology
Juvenile justice systems and policies; Violence Reduction; Correctional Reform; Sentencing Practices
Intelligence integration between Federal Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Community, transnational organized crime, global effects of illicit networks and their centers of gravity, sub-national movements and state sovereignty; insurgencies and their supporting underground movements.
Primary areas include, Criminology, Capital Punishment, and Inmate Rights
Crime policy, corrections & penology, race/ethnicity, and clemency
Constitutional law, privacy and technology, terrorism, evidence-based courts, survey and experimental methods
Evaluating evidence-based crime interventions, crime and place, quantitative methods, and program evaluation
Justice system's and society's response to victims of crime
Law enforcement, police technology, organizational change, translational criminology, research synthesis, community-based crime prevention
Social change and legal reform, legal process and decision-making, public opinion, wrongful convictions, criminal admissions
Death penalty, comparative constitutional law, Sub-Saharan Africa, international criminal law
Community policing,criminal investigation, domestic violence, police ethics, homeland security
Terrorism & counterterrorism, online extremism, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, countering violent extremism (CVE), international security, the Middle East, the Kurdish issue, and conflict resolution.
Crime and place, evidence-based crime interventions, guilty pleas, legal decision-making.
Terrorism, radicalization, terrorist surveillance, the Global Jihad Movement, al-Qaeda, terrorist tactics and target selection, counter-terrorism policies and programs
Threat Assessment, Psychotherapy, Higher Education Policy, Substance Use/Abuse
juvenile justice, use of assessment tools, evidence-based practices, decision-making, racial and ethnic disparities
Juvenile delinquency, violent crime, school violence, domestic violence, crime and place, policing
Countering Violent Extremists, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Decision Making for Law Enforcement
Criminological Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Peer Networks, Quantitative Methods, Social Psychology
Guilty pleas, interrogations and confessions, wrongful convictions, mental health courts, and experimental criminology
Crime and public policy, federal role in supporting translational criminology and criminal justice innovation, policing, public management and strategic leadership in criminal justice
Organizational change, community corrections (probation/parole), prisons, law & society, prisoner reentry, problem-solving courts, implementation studies, street-level bureaucrats, and qualitative methods
Organizational Management, NIMS, Use of Force Policy, Police Training, Innovations/Technology, Youth Law Enforcement Development programs
Gender, co-occurring disorders, interpersonal violence, corrections
Interviewing and Interrogation, Criminal investigations, Counterintelligence investigations, Counterterrorism investigations, Intelligence Analysis, Intelligence theory and applications,
Human trafficking, international development, economic, social, and cultural rights
Intelligence Community's role in U.S. national security, intelligence analysis, scientific method applied to analysis
National Security, Counter-terrorism, Law Enforcement, Intelligence Analysis, Education
Corrections, homeland security, security technology, threat, risk and vulnerability assessment
Crime analysis, intelligence analysis, criminal investigative analysis, criminal profiling, crime mapping, criminal behavior, serial offenders, applied criminal psychology, crime and place, understanding terrorism, fundamentals of crime analysis, intelligence analysis techniques
Corrections, Criminal Justice Organizations, Legal decision making, Community Supervision, Intersection of law and psychology
National Security | Criminal Justice Reform | Leadership | Civil Society | Influence Operations and Warfare | The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and the Internet | Climate Change
Police innovation, geography of crime (crime and place), experimental criminology, statistics and research methods, white collar crime
Police organizations, police reform, police decision making, police technology, punishment in an historical context
Crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and correctional treatment programs, meta-analysis, quantitative research methods
Place-based criminology, racial stereotypes and urban disorder perception, experimental methods, international terrorism
Intersection of national security, homeland security and civil rights/civil liberties, privacy.
Evidence-based crime interventions, policing, crime and place, translational criminology
Human smuggling and illegal immigration, Religiosity and juvenile delinquency, Culture influences and violence, Prison reentry, and Crime in urban settings
