Doctoral Student Bios

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  • CJ Appleton

    CJ Appleton

    Corrections, reentry, desistance, race, identity, narratives

  • Jennifer Ayerza

    Jennifer Ayerza

    cyber-violence, sexual offending, technology facilitated sexual violence, computer-mediated communications, deviancy, and online victimization

  • Muneeba Azam

    Muneeba Azam

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

B

  • Gretchen Baas

    Gretchen Baas

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

  • Talley Bettens

    Talley Bettens

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

C

  • Brianna Camero

    Brianna Camero

    Place-based criminology, hotspots, police-community relations, and community health/social issues

  • Benjamin Carleton

    Benjamin Carleton

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

  • Hayley Carlisle

    Hayley Carlisle

    Corrections, carceral suicide, prisoner reentry

  • Mary Catlin

    Mary Catlin

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

D

  • Zach Drake

    Zach Drake

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

  • Clayton B. Drummond

    Clayton B. Drummond

    Social change and the legal system; punishment; wrongful convictions

F

  • Lakia Faison

    Lakia Faison

    Wrongful convictions and exonerations; Legal and moral decision-making

  • Sydney (Boone) Fay

    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

    Chelsea Foudray

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

G

  • Victoria Goldberg
  • Michael Goodier

    Michael Goodier

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

H

  • Taylor N. Hartwell

    Taylor N. Hartwell

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

  • Tyler Houser

    Tyler Houser

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

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J

  • Vahid Jadidi

    Vahid Jadidi

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

  • I-Ching Jen

    I-Ching Jen

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

  • Rachel Honor Jensen

    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

K

  • Hailey Khatchatourian

    Hailey Khatchatourian

    police legitimacy, policing strategies, and police innovations

  • Anna Knes

    Anna Knes

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

  • Kiseong Kuen

    Kiseong Kuen

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

L

  • Hyunji Lee

    Hyunji Lee

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

  • Wei Gin Lee

    Wei Gin Lee

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

  • Yi-Fang Lu

    Yi-Fang Lu

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

M

  • Benjamin J. Mackey

    Benjamin J. Mackey

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

  • Andrew J. Madrigal

    Andrew J. Madrigal

    Wrongful convictions, Juvenile Justice, Social Justice

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S

  • Suraiya H. Shammi

    Suraiya H. Shammi

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

  • Lindsay Renee Smith

    Lindsay Renee Smith

    Gender, co-occurring disorders, interpersonal violence, imprisonment

T

  • Mindy Thai

    Mindy Thai

    Corrections, interstate prison network, re-entry, alternatives to imprisonment, policing, police technology

W

  • Sean Wire

    Sean Wire

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

Z

  • Taryn Zastrow

    Taryn Zastrow

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

  • Timo Zheng

    Timo Zheng

    Deterrence, Quantitative Methods