Doctoral Student Bios

CJ Appleton

Corrections, reentry, desistance, race, identity, narratives

Jennifer Ayerza

Muneeba Azam

policing, social inequality, juvenile delinquency, terrorism, mental health

Gretchen Baas

Mass shootings, firearms, policing, health, and quantitative methods

Talley Bettens

Adolescent legal decision-making; Wrongful convictions; Police interrogations; School discipline

Brianna Camero

Benjamin Carleton

Evidence-based policing, police-community relations, police legitimacy and accountability, crime prevention and reduction

Hayley Carlisle

Corrections, carceral suicide, prisoner reentry

Mary Catlin

Legal decision-making, false admissions of guilt, wrongful convictions and exonerees

Zach Drake

Crime analysis, data science, machine learning, crime prevention, deterrence, crime and place, homeland security, operations research, program evaluations

Clayton B. Drummond

Social change and the legal system; punishment; wrongful convictions; social justice

Lauren Duhaime

Corrections, juvenile delinquency, prevention, community corrections, organizational change

Lakia Faison

Wrongful convictions and exonerations; Legal and moral decision-making

Sydney (Boone) Fay

Evidence-based crime policy, forensic and legal psychology, situational crime prevention, environmental (place-based) criminology, cyber-assisted crime, and human trafficking

Chelsea Foudray

Pretrial Period, Community Supervision, Corrections, Criminal-Legal Organizations, Criminal-Legal Policies, Legal Decision Making

Victoria Goldberg

Michael Goodier

Policing, 911 Communications, Procedural Justice, Firearms, Violence Reduction, Evidence-Based Crime Policy, Program Evaluation, Place-Based Criminology, Translational Criminology

Taylor N. Hartwell

Corrections, solitary confinement, prison culture, victimology, organizational culture, social inequalities, public policy, health and the criminal justice system

Tyler Houser

Terrorism, security and intelligence challenges, machine learning, and crime analysis

Sydney Ingel

Corrections & Re-entry

Vahid Jadidi

Gender-based violence, Law and Society, Suicide prevention, Urban Crimes, Corrections, Social network analysis, and Social Psychology

I-Ching Jen

Place-based criminology, international terrorism, mental health and criminal justice system

Rachel Honor Jensen

Community policing, police and mental health, police training and mental health, police training and autism spectrum disorders, intersection of law and psychology

Hailey Khatchatourian

police legitimacy, policing strategies, and police innovations

Anna Knes

psychology; legal decision-making; pretrial reform; racial disparities

Kiseong Kuen

crime and place, social and health issues at crime hot spots, evidence-based policing, police-community relations, program evaluation, and quantitative methods

Hyunji Lee

policing, police technologies, police-community relations, evidence-based crime policy, and translational criminology.

Wei Gin Lee

Cybercrime, policing, and gender and crime, criminal victimization, and quantitative analysis

Yi-Fang Lu

Policing & mental health, wellness of law enforcement officers, crime & place, social processes & digital data, health inequality

Benjamin J. Mackey

Sociology of punishment, reentry, community supervision, penal privatization, qualitative methods, survey research

Andrew J. Madrigal

Wrongful convictions, Juvenile Justice, Social Justice

Maddie McPherson

Crime policy, corrections & penology, legal mercy, clemency, justice organizations

Arden Richards-Karamarkovich

Gender, reentry, qualitative methods

Suraiya H. Shammi

Mental health, Guilty pleas, Miranda rights, Legal decision-making, Suicidal ideation

Lindsay Renee Smith

Gender, co-occurring disorders, interpersonal violence, imprisonment

Mindy Thai

Corrections, interstate prison network, re-entry, policing, police technology

Teneshia Thurman

Sean Wire

Policing, crime and place, law enforcement technology, experimental criminology

Taryn Zastrow

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

Timo Zheng

Deterrence, Quantitative Methods