PhD Student Profiles

Take a moment to get to know some of our Ph.D. students.

 

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