Criminology, Law and Society Faculty
Hillary L. Berk Assistant Professor of Teaching Ph.D. University of California Berkeley; J.D. Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College (949) 824-4570 2317 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: sociology of law/law and society, gender, family, reproduction and surrogacy, law and emotion, civil rights, dispute resolution Faculty website: |
Lee Cabatingan Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of Chicago 2303 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: Caribbean Law and Sovereignty; Construction of Authority at the Caribbean Court of Justice. Faculty website: |
Simon A. Cole Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Cornell University (949) 824-1443 5542 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: science, technology, law, and criminal justice Faculty website: |
Susan Bibler Coutin Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology Ph.D., Stanford University (949) 824-1447; (949) 824-7816 3301 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America Faculty website: |
Elliott P. Currie Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley (949) 824-1387 2385 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: 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: |
Teresa A. Dalton Associate Professor of Teaching Ph.D., J.D. University of Denver (949) 824-9206 3381 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: food justice, games of chance and the death penalty Faculty website: |
John D. Dombrink Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (949) 824-6223 2315 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: crime and criminal justice, deviance and social control Faculty website: |
Brandon Golob Assistant Professor of Teaching of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. University of Southern California (949) 824-5220 3369 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: law-related education programs; social media and online privacy; inclusive pedagogy; law and popular culture; media effects Faculty website: |
Michael R. Gottfredson Chancellor's Professor of Criminology Law and Society and Law Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York 949 824 9390 3393 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: criminology, theory, self-control, crime and policy Faculty website: |
Sora Han Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz, J.D. UCLA (949) 824-0050 2319 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis Faculty website: |
John R. Hipp Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Planning, Policy, & Design and Sociology Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (949) 824-8247 3311 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods Faculty website: |
Valerie Jenness Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Sociology, and Nursing Science Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara 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: |
Charis E. Kubrin Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D., University of Washington 949-824-0704 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: |
Elizabeth F. Loftus Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law, and Cognitive Science Ph.D. Stanford University (949) 824-3285 2393 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law Faculty website: |
Mona Lynch Department Chair and Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz (949) 824-0047 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: |
Cheryl Maxson Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of Southern California (949) 824-5150 2309 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: crime and delinquency, youth violence,street gangs juvenile justice system and policing Faculty website: |
Richard McCleary Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Planning, Policy & Design Ph.D. Northwestern University (949) 824-7280 3315 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: criminal justice, research methodology, statistics Faculty website: |
Ana Muñiz Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles (949) 824-4940 2301 Social Ecology 2 Faculty website: |
Emily Owens Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park (949) 824-7929 2311 Social Ecology 2 Faculty website: |
Keramet Reiter Associate 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 3373 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: prisons, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society Faculty website: |
Nancy Rodriguez Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Washington State University 949-824-4841 3305 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: Race, Crime, & Justice; Juvenile Justice; Collateral Consequences of Imprisonment; Criminal Justice Policy |
Nicholas Scurich Associate Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. University of Southern California (949) 824-4046 4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment Faculty website: |
Christopher Seeds Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. New York University; J.D., Cornell Law School (949) 824-4853 3375 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: punishment and social control, law and society, criminal justice, social theory, life sentencing and capital punishment |
Naomi F Sugie Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. Sociology and Social Policy, Demography, Princeton University 949-824-9684 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: |
Bryan L. Sykes Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, University of California-Berkeley (949) 824-9583 3317 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: demography, punishment and mass incarceration, health, fertility, research methods, statistics, and social inequality Faculty website: |
George E. Tita Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Planning, Policy & Design Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (949) 824-4927 2307 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies Faculty website: |
Susan F. Turner Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (949) 824-6943 3336 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: sentencing and corrections, applied research methods Faculty website: |
Geoff Ward Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology Ph.D., University of Michigan Specializations: racial politics of social control, race violence, juvenile justice, court communities, justice workforce, historical research Faculty website: |
Kirk Williams Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., The University of Arizona, Tucson (949) 677-1202 3309 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: Family Violence, Youth Violence, Homicide Studies, Risk Assessment, Violence Prevention Program Evaluation Faculty website: |