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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Romero

Associate 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

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

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

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