PhD Student Profiles
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Zachariah Biggers
- Decision making
- Media and public perception
- Public opinion on crime and criminal justice
Lichen Chu
- Comparative criminology
- Decision making
- Violence and suicide
Alyssa Clark
- Local legal culture
- Rural justice
- Indigent defense
- Law and society
- Qualitative methods
Jeeyoung Chung
Justin Clayton
- Racial Inequality
- Neighborhood Effects
- Corporate Fraud
Maureen Darby
Guillermo Escano
- Homicide trend in Latin America
- Interrupted time-series analysis
- Intersectionality of criminology & public health
- Drug trafficking
- Organized criminal groups
- Homicide spatial analysis
- Anti-crime strategies
- Urban sociology
Jingyi Fei
- Offender decision making and plea bargaining
- Wrongful conviction
- Cross-national suicide and homicide
Alysha Gagnon
- Evaluating evidence based practices for youth
- Childhood adversity
- Quantitative methods
Yichao Gao
Shaina Herman
- Offender decision-making
- Morality and criminal offending
- Criminological theory
- Survey research methods
James Hubbell
- Queer criminology
- Homicide/Parricide
- Violence
- Offender decision making
- Quantitative methods
Stefan Ivanov
- Mass incarceration
- Criminal justice policy
- Public opinion on crime and criminal justice
- Courts and sentencing
- Punishment, corrections, & reentry
Hilary Jacki
- Prisoner reentry
- Ethnographic & qualitative methods
- Prison education
Hyun Ju Jeong
Byunggu Kang
- Demographic understanding of crime rates
- Algorithms in criminal justice
- Comparative criminology
Matthew Kijowski
- Offender decision making
- Criminological theory
- Quantitative methods
Benjamin Kuettel
- Criminology
- Sociology
- Drug use
- Substance use disorder
- Addiction
- Life-course perspective
Stefana LoTempio
- School shootings
- Homicide research
- Decision making
- Courts/Wrongful conviction
Colleen Mair
- Female offending and incarceration
- Mental illness and incarceration
Victoria Nelson
- Juvenile justice
- Sentencing
- Incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD)
- Policy relevant research
Loralys McDaniel
Jacob Montgomery
Rachel Novick
- Race, class, and crime
- Desistance
- Quantitative methods
- Measurement issues
Brian Rainey
- Identity and inequality
- Youth justice
- Violent crime
- System disparities
- Criminal and youth justice policy
Preston Roberts
Kendall Robinson
- Sex work
- Inequality
- Foster care
- Juvenile justice
Nathaniel Schutten
- Public opinion of crime and criminal treatment
- Media portrayals of crime
- Social psychology
Andrew Thompson
- Social threat
- Public opinion of crime
- Marijuana legalization
Caitlin Udas
- Drug policy
- Mass incarceration
- Inequality
Katherine Wahrer
- Dehumanization theory
- Disgust
- Genocide
- Human trafficking
- Social psychology
Megan Mae Willows
- Gender & Violence
- Feminist Criminology
- Victimization Risks
- Comparative Criminology
- Migration & Crime
Haemi Won
- Criminal justice reform policy
- Police innovation
- Police-citizen relations
- Public opinion toward criminal justice system
- Governance and accountability
- Gender and decision-making
- Juvenile justice
- Women in policing
Sishi Wu
- Law
- Criminal justice
- Death penalty
- Law and policy
- Wrongful conviction
- Penology
William Zakrzewski, Jr.
- Cross-national homicide and suicide studies
- GIS mapping and research
- Green criminology
