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Current PhD Students

2003-2004 Cohort

Michael Braun
E-mail: mbraun@uci.edu
Interests: privatization of penal institutions; the use of prisoners as private sector laborers; reintegration of prisoners into society
Michelle Walker
E-mail: walkerm@uci.edu
Interests: deviance; policing

2004-2005 Cohort

Sylvia Valenzuela
E-mail: svalenzu@uci.edu
Interests: violence against women, intimate partner homicide, gender, race, and class, immigration

2005-2006 Cohort

Glenn Trager
E-mail: gtrager@uci.edu
Interests: immigration and immigrant groups; social control
Dan Yates
E-mail: dyates@uci.edu
Interests: communities and crime; white collar crime

2006-2007 Cohort

Tim Goddard
E-mail: tgoddard@uci.edu
Interests: risk, crime prevention and neo-liberalism; appeals to communities in crime control under late modern conditions; risk and the law; legal institutions of punishment and control
Randy Myers
E-mail: rrmyers@uci.edu
Interests: the juvenile justice system; crime in the media; criminological theory
Lori Sexton
E-mail: lsexton@uci.edu
Interests: corrections, specifically prison reform and human rights/social justice issues
Sarah Smith
E-mail: sarahms@uci.edu
Interests: corrections; deviance and social control; juvenile justice; restorative justice; prisoner re-entry; gender and crime; criminological theory
Alyssa Whitby Chamberlain
E-mail: awhitby@uci.edu
Interests: prison reform; sentencing and corrections; prisoner reentry; criminological theory; communities and crime; quantitative methods

2007-2008 Cohort

Akhila Lalitha Ananth
E-mail: aananth@uci.edu
Interests: juvenile dependency and the foster care system; minors' rights; anthropology of space; feminist ethnography
Adam Boessen
E-mail: aboessen@uci.edu
Interests: neighborhoods and crime; spatial analysis; social networks; juvenile delinquency; residential mobility; quantitative methodologies
Ashley Demyan
E-mail: ademyan@uci.edu
Interests: trends in imprisonment (specifically regarding aging prisoners); the sociology of punishment; sites of agency, resistance, and rehumanization within American prisons.
Luis Daniel Gascón
E-mail: danny.gascon@uci.edu
Interests: critical perspectives on law, crime and punishment; social justice and structural inequality; ethnographic and qualitative methods; criminal thinking and creativity; prisoner reentry; sociology of punishment; law and society; youth gangs and culture
Marisa Omori
E-mail: marisa.omori@uci.edu
Interests: Drug policy and drug use, criminal justice policy, race and punishment, sentencing and corrections, and research methods
Natasha Pushkarna
E-mail: natasha.pushkarna@uci.edu
Interests: interaction of social, clinical and forensic psychology
Aaron Roussell
E-mail: roussell@uci.edu
Interests: Methods (ethnography, statistics) and theory of method; race and class oppression; critical theory; drugs and addiction; structural crime correlates
Matthew Valasik
E-mail: mvalasik@uci.edu
Interests: communities and crime; social capital (i.e., collective efficacy); juvenile delinquency; control theories; quantitative methods

2008-2009 Cohort

James Binnall
E-mail: jbinnall@uci.edu
Interests:
Jada Bittle
E-mail: jbittle@uci.edu
Interests: miscarriages of justice; capital punishment; hate crime; psychology and the law; interplay of justice, morality, and law
Charlotte Bradstreet
E-mail: cbstreet@uci.edu
Interests: rehabilitation and treatment; reentry; juvenile delinquency; drug courts; family and mental health issues
Bryan Burton
E-mail: bburton@uci.edu
Interests: white-collar crime; medicare and medicaid fraud investigation; healthcare research and policy
Larry Bush
E-mail: bushl@uci.edu
Interests:
Rachel Diggs
E-mail: rdiggs@uci.edu
Interests: race and Inequality; prisons; crime victim's rights; labor unions
Sharon Farrell
E-mail: farrells@uci.edu
Interests: psychology and law; punishment; prison programs; prisoner reentry
David Fontenot
E-mail: dfonteno@uci.edu
Interests:
Victoria Foreman Snow
E-mail: vforeman@uci.edu
Interests: law and society; constitutional law, specifically religion in law and technology in law
Patricia Goforth
E-mail: pattar@uci.edu
Interests: white collar crime; communities and crime
Sonya Goshe
E-mail: sgoshe@uci.edu
Interests: juvenile justice and issues facing families; court systems; services for special populations (mentally ill offenders): impact of race, gender, and class; and policies that reduce recidivism
Jessica Grebenkemper
E-mail: jess.greb@uci.edu
Interests: Juvenile delinquency; gender identity and crime; youth corrections
Darin Haerle
E-mail: dhaerle@uci.edu
Interests: rehabilitation of violent juvenile offenders; juvenile sentencing reform; prison desegregation; corrections
Laura Kane
E-mail: kanel@uci.edu
Interests: family violence and the criminal justice response; social problems and their relationship to crime, public policy and the law
Jacob Kang-Brown
E-mail: j.kangbrown@uci.edu
Interests: forms of social conflict and exclusion, particularly hate crime in Los Angeles and democracy protests in Bangkok, Thailand; crime databases and archives; law enforcement; and bureaucracy and government
Crystal Null
E-mail: cnull@uci.edu
Interests:
Shannon Reid
E-mail: reids@uci.edu
Interests: gang behavior over the life-course; gangs/group definitions and designation; GIS technology and theory; police use of technology; use of DNA evidence in policing

2009-2010 Cohort

Kenneth Cruz

E-mail: cruzka@uci.edu
Interests: social and legal justice; the interface of juvenile justice and mental health systems; qualitative methods; critical theory
Veronique Fortin
E-mail: vfortin@uci.edu
Interests: sociology of law; public space; private property
Megan Halvorson
E-mail: megan.leigh@uci.edu
Interests: gangs; social networks; terrorism; violence
Jasmine Montgomery
E-mail: jmontgom@uci.edu
Interests: juvenile justice and child welfare; children and the law; black feminism; critical race theory; philosophies of punishment
Nicholas Petersen
E-mail: npeterse@uci.edu
Interests: race and social control (lynching, capital punishment, and incarceration); juvenile justice; miscarriages of justice

2010-2011 Cohort

Gabriel Bar-Ness
E-mail: gbarness@uci.edu
Interests: Law and Society: Desistance through art, legitimacy, and graffiti
Jeremy Braithwaite
E-mail: jbraithw@uci.edu
Interests: criminology; drugs and crime; family violence
Stacy Calhoun
E-mail: calhouns@uci.edu
Interests:
Jessica Cobb
E-mail: cobbj@uci.edu
Interests:
Matthew Fritz-Mauer
E-mail: mfritzma@uci.edu
Interests:criminal law; criminology; constitutional law
Julie Gerlinger
E-mail: gerlingj@uci.edu
Interests: corrections; juvenile delinquency
Adam Ghazi-Tehrani
E-mail: aghazite@uci.edu
Interests: cyber-crime, white-collar crime, critical criminology
Daniel Scott
E-mail: scottdw@uci.edu
Interests: criminology, law & society
Adam Shniderman
E-mail: ashnider@uci.edu
Interests:
James Wo
E-mail: jwo@uci.edu
Interests: Interests: community context of crime, social disorganization, local institutions, and social networks analysis.

2011-2012 Cohort

Alyse Bertenthal
E-mail: abertent@uci.edu
Interests: BLANK
Adam Dunbar
E-mail: dunbara@uci.edu
Interests: BLANK
Pauline White Meeusen
E-mail: pwhiteme@uci.edu
Interests: immigration and human rights law; influence of race and gender on human trafficking victim identification and adjudication; media effects
Analicia Mejia Mesinas
E-mail: amejiame@uci.edu
Interests: BLANK
Natalie Pifer
E-mail: npifer@uci.edu
Interests: the role of mental health and mental disabilities in justice systems, juvenile justice, extreme sentences, intersectionality
Anna Raup-Kounovsky
E-mail: araupkou@uci.edu
Interests: courts, access to justice, public policy evaluation
Pao-Yang "Puma" Shen
E-mail: paoyangs@uci.edu
Interests: Feminism, biopolitics, death penalty.  
Anjuli Verma
E-mail: acverma@uci.edu
Interests: sociology of punishment; social movements and socio-legal change; crime and public policy
Laura Zlotowski
E-mail: lzlotows@uci.edu
Interests: BLANK