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Current PhD Students

2002-2003 Cohort

Myesa Nicole Knox Mahoney
E-mail: knoxm@uci.edu
Interests: persons with mental illness and the justice system; offender reentry; specialty/collaborative court systems; drug policy; mental health policy

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
Philip Goodman
E-mail: pgoodman@uci.edu
Interests: punishment, prisons, and corrections; law and society; race, categorization, and segregation; criminological theory
Lynn Pazzani
E-mail: lpazzani@uci.edu
Interests: sexual assault; inequality; gender issues; statistics; criminological theory
Samantha Smith
E-mail: smiths@uci.edu
Interests: human security, genocide, identity, memory and inequality; Critical Gender and Race Theory; language; policy, governance and the role of Law; landscape, fear, violence, terrorism; technology and Law
Michelle Walker
E-mail: walkerm@uci.edu
Interests: deviance; policing

2004-2005 Cohort

Kristine Artello
E-mail: kartello@uci.edu
Interests: juvenile justice; sex offenders; registration and community notification laws; public policy; social stratification; intersection of government, family and crime including foster care and children of incarcerated parents; criminological theory; social control
Terressa Benz
E-mail: tbenz@uci.edu
Interests: legal consciousness; social stratification; tactics of resistance; surveillance and social control
Shari R. Berkowitz
E-mail: sberkowi@uci.edu
Interests: memory and the law, specifically false memories and eyewitness testimony
Rachel A. Dioso-Villa
E-mail: rdioso@uci.edu
Interests: forensic science, law and society; miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions; representations of crime and forensic science; juries, courts and social science research
Kathryn Henne
E-mail: k.e.henne@uci.edu
Interests: physical cultural studies; critical race and feminist theory; legal anthropology; technologies of regulation; aesthetics of law/crime
Andrew Peterson
E-mail: apeterso@uci.edu
Interests: white-collar crime and organized crime
Anastasia Tosouni
E-mail: atosouni@uci.edu
Interests: restorative justice; social justice; gender violence; juvenile delinquency; theories of crime; deviance
Sylvia Valenzuela
E-mail: svalenzu@uci.edu@uci.edu
Interests: violence against women, intimate partner homicide, gender, race, and class, immigration
Robert Werth
E-mail: rwerth@uci.edu
Interests: punishment; corrections and power; how individuals navigate and enact parole; desistance from crime; media/public perspectives on crime and their connections to policy and governance

2005-2006 Cohort

Kate Rosoff
E-mail: krosoff@uci.edu
Interests: theories of punishment/crime; sex offender laws; intersection of law and psychiatry/psychology
Rita Shah
E-mail: rcshah@uci.edu
Interests: parole and systems of post-release supervision; reentry; rehabilitaiton
Glenn Trager
E-mail: gtrager@uci.edu
Interests: immigration and immigrant groups; social control
Emily Troshynski
E-mail: etroshyn@uci.edu
Interests: criminological theory; gender and feminist theory; contemporary theories of punishment; violence against women; globalization and social exclusion; surveillance and social control.
Brenda Velazquez
E-mail: bvelazqu@uci.edu
Interests: use and misuse of forensic science by the legal system; organizational misconduct; psychology and the law; jury studies
Katherine Warnke-Carpenter
E-mail: kcarpent@uci.edu
Interests: white collar and health care crimes; jury simulation studies; jury selection
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: the community context of crime; juvenile delinquency; spatial analysis; quantitative methodologies
Laura Bringer
E-mail: lbringer@uci.edu
Interests: the study of public law, particularly the interactions between courts and governments; qualitative methodology; textual analysis
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
Gavin Lee
E-mail: gavinl@uci.edu
Interests: capital punishment (including lethal injection challenges, international issues, and public opinion); radical criminological theory; wrongful convictions (especially police and prosecutorial misconduct); survey design; the theoretical examinations of mass murderers, spree killers and serial killers.
Marisa Omori
E-mail: marisa.omori@uci.edu
Interests: criminal justice and drug policy, specifically looking at predictors of legislation and the role of economic framework and harm reduction in drug policy evaluation
Natasha Pushkarna
E-mail: natasha.pushkarna@uci.edu
Interests: interaction of social, clinical and forensic psychology
Aaron Roussell
E-mail: roussell@uci.edu
Interests:structural crime correlates; social disorganization theory; urban ethnography; race relations; critical theory; issues of drugs and addiction
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
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 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; media influence on crime
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
Wendy Reyes
E-mail: wreyes@uci.edu
Interests: substance abuse and criminal behavior; analysis of drug trends; organized crime; drug policy; gang prevention and intervention
Charlotte Younglove
E-mail: cyounglo@uci.edu
Interests: rehabilitation and treatment; reentry; juvenile delinquency; drug courts; family and mental health issues

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:
Jasmine Montgomery
E-mail: jmontgom@uci.edu
Interests: violence against women and communities of color; social justice and anti-violence movements; feminist, gender, and critical race studies.
Nicholas Petersen
E-mail: npeterse@uci.edu
Interests: race and social control (lynching, capital punishment, and incarceration); juvenile justice; miscarriages of justice