PhD Student Profiles

Eric Fowler

Research Interests:

• Youth street gangs
• Juvenile justice
• Judicial decision-making
• Social, economic and cultural opportunities and crime
• Social stigma and crime
• Eco-terrorism

Siyu (Dilys) Liu

Research Interests:

• Life-course transitions and criminal behaviors among youth
• The Wellbeing of Offenders with Serious Mental Illness
• Research Methods in Panel Analysis
• Comparative Studies of Capital Punishment

Robert Norris

Research Interests:

• Criminal justice theory
• Law, society, and politics
• Decision-making
• Miscarriages of justice and wrongful conviction
• Interrogations, confessions, and plea bargaining

Sean Roche

Research Interests:

• Technology
• Social media
• Public opinion
• Criminal justice theory
• Life course theory

Andrew Wheeler

Research Interests:

• Spatial analysis of crime
• Aftercare and offender reintegration
• Discretionary police behavior