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Faculty Research Interests
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Sarah Bacon
Ph.D. 2006, University of Maryland; Criminology
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Developmental and life course theory, testing criminological theory, quantitative methods, death penalty -
Bill Bales
Ph.D., Criminology, 1987, Florida State University
Associate Professor
Research interests: Sentencing, asessing the effectiveness and consequences of punishment strategies, evaulation of correctional practices and programs, community re-entry -
Vanessa Barker
Ph.D., Sociology, 2004, New York University
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Sociology of punishment, comparative penal sanctions, political sociology, historical sociology of crime control policy, political sociology -
Kevin Beaver
Ph.D. 2006, University of Cincinnati; Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Biosocial criminology, genetic/biological correlates of offending, life-course/developmental criminology, stability of violent behaviors -
Tom Blomberg
Ph.D., Criminology, 1974, 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 -
Bruce Bullington
Ph.D., Sociology, 1974, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor
Research interests: Drug and alcohol abuse, drug policy innovation, Native American justice concerns, crime policy in developing nations -
Ted Chiricos
Ph.D., Sociology, 1968, 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, 1997, 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, 1977, University of Tennessee
Professor
Research interests: Ecology of crime, law enforcement, victimology -
Marc Gertz
Ph.D., Political Science, 1976, University of Connecticut
Professor
Research interests: Public opinion and the criminal justice system, organizational politics and the courts, comparative courts, interest groups, voting behavior -
Cecil Greek
Ph.D., Sociology, 1983, New School for Social Research
Associate Professor (Director for Distance Learning)
Research interests: Social construction of social problems and deviance, mass media’s role in amplifying crime and deviance, information technology and criminal justice, distance learning, community policing -
Carter Hay
Ph.D., Sociology, 1999, University of Texas, Austin
Associate Professor
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 -
Kristy Holtfreter
Ph.D., Criminal Justice, 2004, Michigan State University
Assistant Professor
Research interests: White-collar crime, fraud, and organizations; law and social control; gender and crime -
Gary Kleck
Ph.D., Sociology, 1979, University of Illinois at Urbana
Professor (Director of Graduate Studies)
Research interests: Gun control, deterrence, crime control, violence -
Daniel Maier-Katkin
J.D., 1968, Columbia University
Diploma in Criminology, 1969, Cambridge University
Professor
Research interests: International human rights, crimes against humanity, criminal law, juvenile justice, law and society, infanticide -
Dan Mears
Ph.D., Sociology, 1998, University of Texas, Austin
Associate Professor
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 -
Michael D. Reisig
Ph.D., Political Science, 1996, Washington State University
Associate Professor
Research interests: Social ecology, procedural justice, measurement -
Eric Stewart
Ph.D. Iowa State University; Sociology
Associate 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. 2003, University at Albany (SUNY); Sociology
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Race and crime, neighborhoods and crime, residential segregation -
Gordon Waldo
Ph.D., Sociology, 1967, Ohio State University
Professor
Research interests: Research methods, law and social control, corrections, delinquency, juvenile justice -
Patricia Warren
Ph.D. 2005, North Carolina State University; Sociology
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Racial profiling, race and class inequalities, disparities in criminal justice processing, crime and social control