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Co-Directors

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Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods

Social change and legal reform, politics in the criminal legal system, public opinion, wrongful convictions, capital punishment

Affiliated Faculty

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Professor & Department Chair

Police organizations, police reform, police decision making, police technology, punishment in an historical context

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Professor

Criminological theory, peer and family influences on juvenile offending, social psychology and crime, offender reentry and desistence, quantitative methods

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Assistant Professor

Racial and ethnic disparities; prosecutorial discretion; courts and sentencing; policy evaluation

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Associate Professor

Community-based crime prevention, place-based criminology, policing, youth and crime, program evaluation, mixed-methods research, research synthesis

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Assistant Professor

Punishment, surveillance, pretrial justice, courts

Affiliated Students & Alumni

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Doctoral Candidate

Doctoral Student

Adolescent legal decision-making; Wrongful convictions; Police interrogations

Corrections, incarceration, interstate prison network, re-entry, alternatives to imprisonment, social and cultural capital

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Alumni

Wrongful convictions, corrections, social justice, juvenile justice

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Alumni

Social change; extreme punishment; wrongful convictions; qualitative methods

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Alumni

Incarceration and reentry; gender; social inequality; qualitative methods

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