PhD Student Profiles

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Heidi Bonner
Research Interests:
Decision making in policing
Application of judgment and decision making theories and methodologies as a means to explain police behavior
Evaluation of criminal justice policies and programs
         
Andrew Davies
Research Interests:
Criminal victimization
Just World theory
State criminal justice policy
         

 
  Robert Norris
  Research Interests:
      Criminal justice theory
      Law, society, and politics
        Decision-making
        Miscarriages of justice and wrongful conviction
        Interrogations, confessions, and plea bargaining
         
    Jennifer Owens
Research Interests:
  Contextual influences on sentencing
  Criminal justice policy relating to capital punishment, international criminal justice, sexual assault and domestic violence
      Data utilization and management
        Quantitative research methods
        Statistics
         
Camela Steinke
Research Interests:
Gender and race/ethnicity in criminal justice professions
Program evaluation
Youth treatment
Mixed methodology research
         
  Andrew Wheeler
  Research Interests:
      Spatial analysis of crime
        Aftercare and offender reintegration
        Discretionary police behavior