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 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 Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of Chicago; J.D. University of California Hastings College of the Law 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 3385 Social Ecology 2 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 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: |
Amanda Geller Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Columbia University Specializations: criminal justice and social inequality, policing, incarceration and families, and survey research Faculty website: |
Brandon Golob Associate 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: |
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 5300 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: socio-legal studies, justice policy, civil rights and liberties, and social and policy change Faculty website: |
Sora Han 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 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 3392 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods Faculty website: |
Nicole Iturriaga Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society PhD. University of California, Los Angeles (949) 824-9939 3363 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: science and technology, political sociology, social movements, and human rights Faculty website: |
Valerie Jenness Distinguished 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 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: |
Elizabeth F. Loftus Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; School of Law Ph.D. Stanford University (949) 824-3285 2393 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law Faculty website: |
Mona Lynch Chancellor's 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: |
Richard McCleary Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. Northwestern University (949) 824-7280 3315 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: criminal justice, research methodology, statistics Faculty website: |
Ojmarrh Mitchell Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D., University of Maryland 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 2301 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: gang profiling, youth justice, gang injunctions and databases, immigration enforcement, policing, race, state violence Faculty website: |
Emily Owens Chair and Deans’ Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Economics Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park (949) 824-7929 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: |
Miguel Quintana-Navarrete Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D., Harvard University (949) 824-7577 2309 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: community and political violence; crime and violence in the global south; comparative criminal justice policy and practice Faculty website: |
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 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 |
Mercy RomeroAssociate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D. UC Berkeley 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 (949) 824-4046 4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment Faculty website: |
Christopher Seeds Associate 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 Faculty website: |
George E. Tita Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Urban Planning and Public Policy 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: |
Carolina Valdivia Ordorica Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. Harvard University (949) 824-0677 3367 Social Ecology 2 Specializations: immigration; law and society; race and ethnicity; youth and families; U.S.-Mexico borderlands Faculty website: |