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PhD Alumni

The Department of Criminology, Law and Society has over 70 PhD graduates who have gone on to make a range of contributions to the world. Many have gone on to become teachers and researchers at universities (such as the University of Texas, Austin; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Colorado, Denver; Florida State University; University of San Diego; University of Illinois; University of Florida; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Nevada, Reno; Rutgers University; and John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and organizations (such as the DEA; California Youth Authority; US Department of Labor; National Institute of Justice; and Amnesty International) across the country.

Abril, Julie Christine. (2005). The relevance of culture, ethnic identity, and collective efficacy to violent victimization in one Native American Indian tribal community.

Afflitto, Frank. (1998). Experience and evaluation: Social perceptions of justice in Guatemala's "popular" movement, 1990-1992.

Bickford, Jeanne. (1996). Filthy lucre: A socio-legal study of the criminalization of money laundering.

Black, William. (1998). The best way to rob a bank is to own one: Control, fraud and the Savings and Loan debacle.

Bogaziano, Dimitri. (2008). Relationship between popular culture, the media and crime.

Boggess, Lyndsay. (2009). Racial and ethnic transition and crime in Los Angeles.

Bradley, Kelly. (2003). The victimization of adults with developmental disabilities: Assessing risk, prevalence, nature of victimization, characteristics of victimizers, and criminal justice system response in Orange County, California.

Bridenball, Blaine M. (2005). Public attitudes toward the police: The primacy of citizens' perceptions of their neighborhoods.

Britton, R. Lee. (1997). Jurors' sensitivity to variations in the diagnosticity and reliability of DNA Typing evidence.

Brown, Gregory Christopher. (1990). Violence in California prisons: A test of the Importation and Deprivation Models.

Burton, Sabina Wuensch. (1996). Cultural diversity in law enforcement: The effects of academy and field training.

Campbell, Michael. (2009). Agents of change: Law enforcement, prisons, and politics in Texas and California.

Cass, Valerie. (1998). Australia's greenhouse challenge: An industry government cooperative approach to compliance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Clay, Thomas. (1984). Combating cancer in the workplace: Implementation of the California Occupational Carcinogens Control Act.

DeLeon-Granados, William. (1997). Travels through crime and place: On the trail of community-building as crime control.

Dodge, Mary. (1997). Whose sperm, whose eggs, whose womb? The criminology of a fertility clinic scandal.

Erwin, Patricia Ellen. (2006). Compelled to safety: Victims of domestic violence at the intersections of the criminal and civil courtroom processes.

Fridell, Lorie Ann. (1987). Diversion programs for intrafamilial child sexual abuse offenders: The clients, the referral decision, and the Resumption of Prosecution.

Fischer, Ryan G. (2007). State level context and offender recidivism: The impact of state sentencing structures.

Fritsvold, Erik Drew. (2006). Fat, lazy Americans: Legal consciousness & radical environmental activism.

Garcia, Crystal. (1996). Measurement in community corrections: Intensive supervision revisited.

Gardiner, Christie. (2008). From inception to implementation: How SACPA affected the case processing and sentencing of drug offenders in one California county.

Goff, Colin. (1982). Edwin H. Sutherland and white-collar crime: An analytical study.

Grant, Diana. (1995). Attributions of propensity, credibility, and threshold of conviction: Mediators of the impact of a defendant's prior conviction on the verdict.

Gruner, Richard. (2009). Tort reforms and the sanctioning of negligent physicians by state licensing boards.

Ham-Rowbottom, Kathleen. (2003). Family court cases of domestic violence: Risk factors, judicial decisions and non-compliance with court orders.

Hillyard, Daniel. (1999). Dying right: The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law.

Ireland, Connie Stivers. (2003). Race, drugs and politics: Social construction of a Prison Nation.

Jesilow, Paul. (1982). Deterring automobile repair fraud: A field experiment.

Josi, Don. (1996). Likeskills '95, A Pragmatic Alternative for Juvenile Parole: The evaluation of a community reintegration program for youthful offenders.

Kaplan, Paul J. (2007). The subject of execution: Narratives of the American creed in U.S. capital punishment.

Kasravi, Niaz. (2001). Women, Islam, and social change: A study of contemporary reform tactics in Iran.

Kieso, Douglas. (2003). The California Three Strikes Law: The undemocratic production of injustice.

Kihnley, Jennifer. (1999). Courting contradiction: Gender, law, and women's collegiate basketball.

Kinkade, Patrick. (1990). The unintended consequences of California's 1982 drunk driving laws: The cost of being "MADD."

Kvashny, Karen. (2003). Modern maritime piracy in Asia: A case study of transnational organized crime.

Lane, Jodi. (1998). Crime and gangs in an urban sphere: Constructing the threat and fearing the future.

Lavenant, Claudia. (2002). Equal by fiat: The dismantling of Affirmative Action at the University of California.

Leone, Matthew. (1991). Social, economic, and organizational correlates of jail crowding.

Matsuda, Kristy. (2009). The Impact of incarceration on young offenders.

Meehan, Kevin. (1995). The privatization of adult corrections.

Mersmann, Harry. (1996). When boys stop being boys: The effectiveness of men as rape crisis counselors.

Meyer, Jon'a. (1994). "Doing Justice" in the people's courts: Sentencing by municipal court judges.

Mishra, Shiraz. (1992). Medical indigency and health care access: A theoretical and empirical validation.

Mobley, Alan. (2001). Entrepreneurial penality.

Mohamed, Rafik. (2002). We but next: Race, masculinity and resistance in urban America.

Morrison, Gregory. (1995). A critical history and evaluation of American police firearms training to 1945.

Nguyen, Tomson. (2009). Subprime Mortgage Fraud and the U.S. Economic Crisis: A Criminological Analysis.

Nhan, Johnny. (2008). Policing cyberspace: The compatibility of the internet with traditional forms of law enforcement, law and policy.

Parsons, Deborah. (1996). Police officers' perceptions: A comparative study by gender and organization.

Parsons, Katie. (1998). The Gang Incident Tracking System: Orange County, California's cooperative effort to track gang related incidents.

Pathak, Maithilee. (1995). Can jurors accurately evaluate hearsay?

Petersilia, Joan. (1990). Intensive supervision probation for high risk offenders: Findings from three California experiments.

Polan, Susan. (1994). GSP revisited: An evaluation of juvenile diversion.

Quinn, Beth. (1996). Sexual harassment in the everyday world: The power of sex/the power of law.

Richman, Kimberly. (2003). Judicial narratives in custody cases involving gay and lesbian Parents, 1952-1999: A study of indeterminacy and meaning making in legal rationales and outcomes.

Rodriguez, Laurel Jeanne. (2005). The Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines: A case study of regulatory decision making.

Rosoff, Stephen. (1987). Physicians as criminal defendants: Specialty, status and sanctions.

Sanchez, Lisa. (1998). Sex, violence, citizenship, and community: An ethnography and legal geography of commercial sex in one American city.

Savage, Joanne. (1997). Cross-national variations in theft and violence: The promise of nurturant social policies.

Scheel, Elizabeth. (1997). Transformation of the anti-rape movement and its impact on survivors.

Schumann, Edward. (1991). Effects of attorney's arguments on juror's use of mathematical evidence.

Smith, Cindy Jo. (1996). The California Civil Addict Program: An evaluation of implementation and effectiveness.

Song, John Huey Long. (1988). No white-feathered crows: Chinese "immigrants" and "Vietnamese refugees" adaptation to American legal institutions.

Sumner, Jennifer. (2009). Keeping house: Understanding the transgender inmate code of conduct through prison policies, environments, and culture.

Swan, Richelle. (2003). On the rocky road to restoring justice: The restorative justice movement in the United States.

Szockyj, Elizabeth. (1992). In quest of the regulation of insider trading.

Taylor, David. (1999). Begging for change: A social ecological study of aggressive panhandling and social control in Los Angeles.

Terry, Chuck. (1999). Transcending prisionization and addiction: A study of identity transformation.

Truitt, Linda. (1997). Analysis of racial disparity in felony criminal court sentencing.

Tung, Charlene. (1999). The social reproductive labor of Filipina transmigrant workers in Southern California: Caring for those who provide elderly care.

Utman, Jr., Richard E. (2007). Procedural justice in pre-trial civil litigation.

Vidales, Guadalupe T. (2007). A comparative trans-national ecological study of Latina domestic violence: Barriers to seeking services in Mexico and United States.

Vogel, Brenda. (1996). Perceptions of crime seriousness in the African American community: A contextual approach.

Welsh, Wayne. (1990). A comparative analysis of court orders against California jails: Intervention and impact.

Wiebe, Douglas. (2000). Lifestyle risk factors for homicide.

Will, Susan. (1999). Economic transformation, legal innovation, and social change: A case study of bankruptcy lawyers.

Woods, Tryon P. (2007). The freedom of difference: Decolonization in Chiapas and the Niger River Delta.