Criminology, Law and Society Faculty

criminal justice policy in the U.S. and other countries, causes of violent crime, social context of delinquency and youth violence, etiology of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ecurrie

Teresa A. Dalton

Associate Professor of Teaching

Ph.D., J.D. University of Denver

(949) 824-9206

tdalton@uci.edu

3381 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

food justice, games of chance and the death penalty

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/tdalton

Amanda Geller

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., Columbia University

(949) 824-0961

amanda.geller@uci.edu

2315 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

criminal justice and social inequality, policing, incarceration and families, and survey research

Faculty website:

https://amandagellerphd.com

Brandon Golob

Assistant Professor of Teaching of Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California

(949) 824-5220

bgolob@uci.edu

3369 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

law-related education programs; social media and online privacy; inclusive pedagogy; law and popular culture; media effects

Faculty website:

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/golob/

Jon Gould

Dean, School of Social Ecology and Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago, J.D., Harvard Law School, M.P.P. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, A.B., University of Michigan

(949) 824-5466

jon.gould@uci.edu

5300 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

socio-legal studies, justice policy, civil rights and liberties, and social and policy change

Faculty website:

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/jongould/

Sora Han

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz, J.D. UCLA

(949) 824-0050

sora.han@uci.edu

2319 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/sorahan

John R. Hipp

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Urban Planning and Public Policy and Sociology

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

(949) 824-8247

hippj@uci.edu

3392 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/johnhipp

Nicole Iturriaga

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

PhD. University of California, Los Angeles

(949) 824-9939

n.iturriaga@uci.edu

3363 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

science and technology, political sociology, social movements, and human rights

Faculty website:

http://www.nicoleiturriaga.com/

Valerie Jenness

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Sociology, and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

jenness@uci.edu

3389 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy.

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/jenness

Charis E. Kubrin

Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D., University of Washington

949-824-0704

ckubrin@uci.edu

3379 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

race/ethnicity and violence; rap music and media, culture and crime; immigration and crime, crime and crime trends

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ckubrin

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; School of Law

Ph.D. Stanford University

(949) 824-3285

eloftus@uci.edu

2393 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eloftus

Mona Lynch

Chair and Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

(949) 824-0047

lynchm@uci.edu

2389 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

law and society; psychology and law; criminal procedure in practice; punishment and society; race, institutional bias, and criminal justice

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/monalynch

Richard McCleary

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Urban Planning and Public Policy

Ph.D. Northwestern University

(949) 824-7280

mccleary@uci.edu

3315 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/mccleary

Ana Muñiz

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles

(949) 824-4940

anamuniz@uci.edu

2301 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

gang profiling, youth justice, gang injunctions and databases, immigration enforcement, policing, race, state violence

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/anamuniz

Emily Owens

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park

(949) 824-7929

egowens@uci.edu

2311 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

how government policies affect the prevalence of criminal activity as well as how agents within the criminal justice system, particularly police, prosecutors, and judges, respond to policy changes

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/egowens/

Miguel Quintana-Navarrete

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., Harvard University

(949) 824-7577

miguelrq@uci.edu

2309 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

community and political violence; crime and violence in the global south; comparative criminal justice policy and practice

Faculty website:

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/miguelrq/

Keramet Reiter

Vice Chair, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law

Ph.D., J.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

(949) 824-9201

reiterk@uci.edu

3373 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

prisons, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/reiter

Nancy Rodriguez

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., Washington State University

949-824-4841

rodrign6@uci.edu

3305 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

Race, Crime, & Justice; Juvenile Justice; Collateral Consequences of Imprisonment; Criminal Justice Policy

Nicholas Scurich

Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California

(949) 824-4046

nscurich@uci.edu

4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/scurich

Christopher Seeds

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D. New York University; J.D., Cornell Law School

(949) 824-4853

cseeds@uci.edu

3375 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

punishment and social control, law and society, criminal justice, social theory, life sentencing and capital punishment

Faculty website:

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/cseeds/

Naomi F Sugie

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. Sociology and Social Policy, Demography, Princeton University

949-824-9684

nsugie@uci.edu

3319 Social Ecology 2

Specializations:

Punishment and mass incarceration, employment and prisoner reentry, social inequality, families, criminological theory, demography, new technologies for data collection and analysis

Faculty website:

http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/nsugie