Criminology, Law and Society Faculty

sociology of law/law and society, gender, family, reproduction and surrogacy, law and emotion, civil rights, dispute resolution

Caribbean Law and Sovereignty; Construction of Authority at the Caribbean Court of Justice.

science, technology, law, and criminal justice

law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America

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

food justice, games of chance and the death penalty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

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

criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

criminal justice policy and racial fairness in the criminal justice system

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

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

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

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

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

built environment, the archives and documents of Black/Latinx transformative art and social movement

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

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

criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies

immigration; law and society; race and ethnicity; youth and families; U.S.-Mexico borderlands