Full-time Faculty

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  • Parwez Besmel

    Parwez Besmel

    Assistant Professor

    Transitional Justice, Human Rights and international law, International Criminal Court.

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  • Catherine Moses Dobson

    Catherine Moses Dobson

    Director of the Internship Program

    Associate Professor

    Latin American politics, U.S. counternarcotics policy, environmental law, constitutional law

  • Beidi Dong

    Beidi Dong

    Associate Professor

    Firearm violence and policy, crime/violence, punishment, and health, crime and place, life-course criminology/criminal careers, computational social science

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  • Erin Eife

    Erin Eife

    Assistant Professor

    Punishment, surveillance, pretrial justice, courts

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  • Chelsea Foudray

    Chelsea Foudray

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Pretrial period, community supervision, corrections, criminal-legal organizations, criminal-legal policies, legal decision making

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  • Catherine Gallagher

    Catherine Gallagher

    Associate Professor

    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

  • Charlotte Gill

    Charlotte Gill

    Director of the MS Program

    Associate Professor

    Community-based crime prevention, place-based criminology, policing, youth and crime, program evaluation, mixed-methods research, research synthesis

  • Terry Gudaitis

    Terry Gudaitis

    Director of Intelligence Studies Program

    Associate Professor

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  • Yasemin Irvin-Erickson

    Yasemin Irvin-Erickson

    Assistant Professor

    Violence against women, domestic violence, identity fraud victimization, economic empowerment of vulnerable populations; evidence synthesis

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  • Devon Johnson

    Devon Johnson

    Director of Graduate Programs

    Associate Professor

    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

    Professor

    Firearms, violence, and public policy; police and crime control; technology and organizational change in policing; policy and program evaluation

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  • Jin R. Lee

    Jin R. Lee

    Assistant Professor

    Cybercrime, cybersecurity, cyberpsychology, online interpersonal violence, computer-mediated communications, big data

  • Evan Marie Lowder

    Evan Marie Lowder

    Associate Professor

    Pretrial reform and interventions, justice-involved behavioral health populations, mental health courts and diversion programs, risk assessment, racial disparities, opioid crisis, quantitative research methods

  • Cynthia Lum

    Cynthia Lum

    Distinguished University Professor

    Evidence-based policing, police organizations, patrol and investigations, police technologies, evidence-based crime policy, and translational criminology

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  • Marie Mele Thomas

    Marie Mele Thomas

    Associate Professor

    Social inequality and crime, victimization, interpersonal violence, victim advocacy

  • Linda M. Merola

    Linda M. Merola

    Associate Professor

    Constitutional law, privacy and technology, terrorism, evidence-based courts, survey and experimental methods

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  • Robert J. Norris

    Robert J. Norris

    Associate Professor

    Social change and legal reform, social justice and critical criminology, politics in the criminal legal system, public opinion, wrongful convictions, capital punishment

  • Andrew Novak

    Andrew Novak

    Associate Professor

    Death penalty, comparative criminology, comparative law, human rights litigation, international criminal law, justice theory, LBGT rights, sport history, Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Daniela Oramas Mora

    Daniela Oramas Mora

    Assistant Professor

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

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  • Cesar J. Rebellon

    Cesar J. Rebellon

    Professor

    Criminological theory, peer and family influences on juvenile offending, social psychology and crime, offender reentry and desistence, quantitative methods

  • Allison D. Redlich

    Allison D. Redlich

    Associate Chair

    Distinguished University Professor

    Guilty pleas, interrogations and confessions, wrongful convictions, mental health courts, and experimental criminology

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  • Auzeen Shariati

    Auzeen Shariati

    Director of Undergraduate Programs

    Associate Professor

    Environmental criminology, crime prevention, victimization, policing studies, comparative criminal justice, program evaluation, mixed methods

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  • Heather Toronjo

    Heather Toronjo

    Senior Instructor

    Reflective practice, corrections, probation workforce development

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  • Gwen M Udell

    Gwen M Udell

    Professor of Practice

    Crime and intelligence analysis, analytical methods, criminal investigative analysis, applied criminal psychology, crime pattern analysis, serial offenders, restorative and parallel justice.

  • Janani Umamaheswar

    Janani Umamaheswar

    Associate Professor

    Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods

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  • David Weisburd

    David Weisburd

    Distinguished University Professor

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

  • James J. Willis

    James J. Willis

    Chair

    Professor

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

  • David B Wilson

    David B Wilson

    Distinguished University Professor

    Crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and correctional treatment programs, meta-analysis, quantitative research methods, applied statistics

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  • Sue-Ming Yang

    Sue-Ming Yang

    Associate Professor

    crime and place, criminal justice responses to mental wellness and health issues, experimental methods, international and domestic terrorism

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  • Taryn Zastrow

    Taryn Zastrow

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Place-based criminology, crime analysis, community violence & health, policing, crime & public policy