Doctoral Student Bios

Constantus Akuma-Zanu

Policing, Procedural Justice, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Policy/Program Evaluation

Jessica Arredondo Cruz

Jennifer Ayerza

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

Muneeba Azam

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

Talley Bettens

Adolescent legal decision-making; Wrongful convictions; Police interrogations

Brianna Camero

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

Benjamin Carleton

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

Hayley Carlisle

Corrections, institutional rule enforcement, carceral suicide, prisoner reentry

Hannah De Wolf

community- and place-based prevention, religion and terrorism, white-collar crime

Zach Drake

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

Lakia Faison

Wrongful convictions and exonerations; Legal and moral decision-making

Kristen M Fite

Institutional and state responses to vulnerable populations, victimization, social inequality

Paisley Hahn

Policing, police-community relations, police training, juvenile justice

Taylor N. Hartwell

Corrections, solitary confinement, organizational culture, trauma/potentially traumatic events, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the intersection of physical and mental health and the criminal justice system

Tyler Houser

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

I-Ching Jen

Online neighborhoods, place-based criminology, collective efficacy, fear of crime

Bojeong Kang

technology-facilitated sexual violence and abuse, online child sexual exploitation, cybercrime, risk assessment, policy evaluation, and quantitative methods

Hailey Khatchatourian

Police legitimacy, police-community relations, policing strategies and evidence-based crime policy

Anna Knes

psychology & law; legal decision-making; sentencing; racial disparities

Hyunji Lee

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

Wei-Gin Lee

Cybercrime, policing, police retention, criminal victimization, and quantitative analysis

Chloe Lynn McPhillips

Policing, Recruitment and Retention, Police-Community Relations, Community Trust, Public Perceptions of Policing, Evidence-Based Policing

Selimul Quader

Cybercrime

Suraiya H. Shammi

Guilty pleas, Miranda rights, Procedural justice, Police interrogation

Mindy Thai

Corrections, incarceration, interstate prison network, re-entry, alternatives to imprisonment, social and cultural capital

Bhavishya Yarlagadda

juvenile delinquency, corrections, social psychology and rehabilitation

Timo Zheng

Community Health, Health and Crime, Victimization (minority groups), Pure Theory of Law, Quantitative Law Study, Justice Policy Evaluations, Theoretical Statistics, Statistical Modelling, Penology and Recidivism