Faculty / Student Research
Faculty often work closely with graduate students to build research agendas and execute research projects. These collaborative efforts often lead to publications in top journals. See what the students have been up to lately.
Faculty Research Interests
Bill Bales
Ph.D., Criminology, Florida State University
Associate Professor and
Director of the Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research
Research interests: Sentencing, asessing the effectiveness and consequences of punishment strategies, evaulation of correctional practices and programs, community re-entry
Eric Baumer
Ph.D., Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Allen E. Liska Professor of Criminology
Research interests: Temporal and Spatial Crime Patterns, Community Influences on Attitudes and Behavior, Sociology of Punishment, Comparative Criminology
Kevin Beaver
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; Criminal Justice
Associate Professor and
Director of Distance Learning
Research interests: Biosocial criminology, genetic/biological correlates of offending, life-course/developmental criminology, stability of violent behaviors
Tom Blomberg
Ph.D., Criminology, University of California, Berkeley
Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology
Research interests: Delinquency, education, crime desistance, penology, social control, victims services, criminological research and public policy
Ted Chiricos
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Massachusetts
Professor
Research interests: Race and justice, the political economy of crime and social control, theoretical criminology, popular perceptions of crime and punishment, media representation of crime and its consequences, sociological theory
Billy Close
Ph.D., Criminology, Florida State University
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Theory and dynamics of racism and crime; ethnicity
and methodology; juvenile justice; minority over-representation;
race, crime, and sports; racial profiling and biased policing
Bill Doerner
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Tennessee
Professor
Research interests: Ecology of crime, law enforcement, victimology
Marc Gertz
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Connecticut
Professor
Research interests: Public opinion and the criminal justice system, organizational politics and the courts, comparative courts, interest groups, voting behavior
Carter Hay
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
Associate Professor and
Director of the Graduate Program
Research interests: Family- and parenting-related causes of adolescent crime, development of self-control and its implications for crime, effects of family and community poverty on crime, role of the family and community in affecting desistance from crime
and prisoner reentry, link between public opinion and public policy in relation to the expanded use of incarceration
Gary Kleck
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana
Professor
Research interests: Gun control, deterrence, crime control, violence
Daniel Maier-Katkin
J.D., Columbia University
Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University
Professor
Research interests: International human rights, crimes against humanity, criminal law, juvenile justice, law and society, infanticide
Dan Mears
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology
Research interests: Crime and delinquency, juvenile and criminal justice, crime theory, public policy and opinion, drugs, domestic violence, immigration, mental health, religion, and sentencing, corrections, and reentry
Sonja Siennick
Ph.D., 2009, The Pennsylvania State University; Sociology
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Crime and deviance, life course, quantitative methods.
Eric Stewart
Ph.D. Iowa State University; Sociology
Professor
Research interests: Neighborhoods and crime, life course criminology, youth violence, families and delinquency, contextual effects, adolescent outcomes, and police/citizen interactions
Brian Stults
Ph.D., University at Albany (SUNY); Sociology
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Race and crime, neighborhoods and crime, residential segregation
Gordon Waldo
Ph.D., Sociology, Ohio State University
Professor Emeritus
Research interests: Research methods, law and social control, corrections, delinquency, juvenile justice
Patricia Warren
Ph.D., North Carolina State University; Sociology
Assistant Professor and
Director of the Undergraduate Program
Research interests: Racial profiling,
race and class inequalities, disparities in criminal justice processing, crime and social control
