Criminology, Law and Society Faculty

Hillary L. Berk Associate Professor of Teaching Ph.D. University of California Berkeley; J.D. Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College (949) 824-4570 hberk@uci.edu 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: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/hberk
Lee Cabatingan Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of Chicago; J.D. University of California Hastings College of the Law lcabatin@uci.edu 2303 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: Caribbean Law and Sovereignty; Construction of Authority at the Caribbean Court of Justice. Faculty website: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/lcabatin
Simon A. Cole Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Cornell University (949) 824-1443 scole@uci.edu 3385 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: science, technology, law, and criminal justice Faculty website: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/scole
Susan Bibler Coutin Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology Ph.D., Stanford University (949) 824-1447; (949) 824-7816 scoutin@uci.edu 3301 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America Faculty website: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/scoutin
Elliott P. Currie Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley (949) 824-1387 ecurrie@uci.edu 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: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ecurrie
Teresa A. Dalton 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 Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Columbia University amanda.geller@uci.edu Specializations: criminal justice and social inequality, policing, incarceration and families, and survey research Faculty website: https://amandagellerphd.com
Brandon Golob Associate 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 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: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5725
John R. Hipp Professor and Vice Chair 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 Distinguished 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 3309 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 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
Ojmarrh Mitchell Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D., University of Maryland ofmitche@uci.edu 3311 Social Ecology II Specializations: criminal justice policy and racial fairness in the criminal justice system
Ana Muñiz Associate 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 Chair and Deans’ Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Economics 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 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
Mercy Romero Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. UC Berkeley mercyr@uci.edu 3379 Social Ecology II Specializations: built environment, the archives and documents of Black/Latinx transformative art and social movement
Nicholas Scurich Department Chair, Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. University of Southern California 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 Associate 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/
George E. Tita Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (949) 824-4927 gtita@uci.edu 2307 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies Faculty website: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/tita
Carolina Valdivia Ordorica Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. Harvard University (949) 824-0677 c.valdivia@uci.edu 3367 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: immigration; law and society; race and ethnicity; youth and families; U.S.-Mexico borderlands Faculty website: https://carolinavaldivia.org/
Eraldo Souza dos Santos Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. in philosophy, Panthéon-Sorbonne University esouzado@uci.edu 3361 SE II Faculty website: https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Jeffrey Swindle Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. in sociology, University of Michigan jswindle@uci.edu 3311 SE II Specializations: violence, gender, race, migration Faculty website: https://www.jeffreyswindle.com

Criminology, Law and Society Faculty

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