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

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

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