PhD Student Profiles

Linda Balcarová

Research Interests:

  • Biometrics
  • Criminological theory
  • Immigration and international crime
  • Law Enforcement Policing
  • Survey research methods
  • Quantitative methods

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Li-Chen Chu

Research Interests:

  • Deterrence and Criminal Policy
  • Offender Decision Making
  • Violence and Suicide
  • Comparative Criminology

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Justin Clayton

Research Interests:

  • Abolition
  • Inequality
  • Mixed Methods

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Guillermo J. Escaño

Research Interests:

  • Crime and Violence in Latin America
  • Organized Criminal Groups
  • Effects of Social Structural Factors on Homicide
  • Urban Criminology/ Sociology
  • Drug Policy

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Yichao Gao

Research Interests:

  • Spatial Analysis of Crime and Criminal Behavior
  • Investigative Psychology
  • Prison Environment and Prisoner Reentry
  • Understanding Crime and Criminal Behavior from Biological and Psychological Perspectives

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Shaina Herman

Research Interests:

  • Crime decision-making
  • Morality and criminal choice
  • Context and criminal choice
  • Criminological theory
  • Survey research methods
  • Novel methodologies for testing criminological theory

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Beau Holladay

Research Interests:

  • Police officer decision making
  • Police legitimacy
  • Criminal justice policy

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James Hubbell

Research Interests:

  • Decision-Making
  • Violence Prevention
  • Homicide/Parricide

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Stefan Ivanov

Research Interests:

  • Mass Incarceration
  • Punishment & Inequality
  • Criminal Justice Policy
  • Public Opinion

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Hilary Jackl

Research Interests:

  • Reentry
  • Housing Insecurity
  • Higher Education in Prison
  • Ethnography & Qualitative Methods

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Byunggu Kang

Research Interests:

  • Criminology
  • Demography
  • Public Health

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Matthew Kijowski

Research Interests:

  • Offender decision-making
  • Criminological theory
  • Quantitative methods
  • Research design

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Benjamin Kuettel

Research Interests:

  • Drug Policy
  • Substance Use Disorder
  • Life-course Perspective

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Stefana E. LoTempio

Research Interests:

  • Mass Shootings
  • School Shootings
  • Mass Killings

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Colleen D. Mair

Research Interests:

  • Policy impact analysis
  • Female incarceration
  • Interrupted time series

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Jacob Montgomery

Research Interests:

  • Offender Decision Making
  • Peer Interaction
  • Public Opinion
  • Restorative Justice

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Oona Newman

Research Interests:

  • Juvenile Delinquency
  • Juvenile Recidivism
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Violent Crime

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Rachel Novick

Research Interests:

  • Race and crime
  • Desistance
  • Criminal justice reform
  • Mixed methods

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Baruch Rainey

Research Interests:

  • Identity and Inequality
  • Antisemitism
  • Youth Justice
  • Queer Criminology

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JeeWon Ryu

Research Interests:

  • Juvenile Justice
  • Juvenile Justice Policy
  • Juvenile Delinquency

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Nathaniel Schutten

Research Interests:

  • Gun ownership, gun control, and gun attitudes
  • Public opinion about criminal justice policy and correctional reform
  • Survey Methodology and Experimental Design

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Caitlin Udas

Research Interests:

  • Victimology
  • Crime in Media

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Megan Mae Willows

Research Interests:

  • Gender & Violence
  • Feminist Criminology
  • Survivorship
  • Comparative Criminology
  • Gender & Migration 

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Sishi Wu

Research Interests:

  • Death penalty
  • Wrongful conviction
  • Law
  • Policy

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