Daniela Oramas Mora

Assistant Professor

Racial and ethnic disparities, courts and sentencing, prosecutorial discretion, policy evaluation, and quantitative methods

Dr. Daniela Oramas Mora is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She also holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of South Florida, and both a B.A. in Criminology and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic disparities within the criminal justice system, prosecutorial discretion, courts and sentencing, and policy evaluation.

Selected Publications

Oramas Mora, D., Mitchell, O., & Spohn, C. (2025). Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida. Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102464

Oramas Mora, D., Terrill, W., & Foster, J. (2023). A Decade of Police Use of Deadly Force Research (2011-2020). Homicide Studies, 27(1), 6-33.

Oramas Mora, D. (2023). [Review of the book Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond by A. Muñiz]. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 34(3), 470-473.

Bowman, R., Oramas Mora, D., Mitchell, O., & Spohn, C. (2023). Gender in the courtroom workgroup: Understanding the relationship between the composition of workgroups and the gender gap in punishment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 50(3), 410-428.

Lynch, M., & Oramas Mora, D. (2023). Wrong Side of the Track: Crimes by Railroads in the US, 2000-2017. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime.

Mitchell, O., Oramas Mora, D., Sticco, T., & Boggess, L. (2022). Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida. Criminology & Public Policy, 21, 535-565.

Mitchell, O., Yan, S., & Oramas Mora, D. (2022). Trends in prison sentences and racial disparities: 20-Years of sentencing under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, 60(2), 300-338.

Courses Taught

CRIM 100: Introduction to Criminal Justice

CRIM 495: Capstone in Criminology, Law and Society

CRIM 408: Criminal Courts

Education

Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University (2024)

M.A., Criminology, University of South Florida (2020)

B.A., Criminology, University of Florida (2018)

B.S., Psychology, University of Florida (2018)