Criminology, Law and Society Faculty

Arnold Binder: Research methodology, juvenile delinquency, police organization and methods

Kitty C. Calavita: Sociology of law, criminology, social deviance, immigration, and inequality

Simon A. Cole: Science, technology, law, and criminal justice

Susan Bibler Coutin: Law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America

Elliott Currie: 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 assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice

John D. Dombrink: Crime and criminal justice, deviance and social control

Gilbert L. Geis: Crime and criminal justice

Michael R. Gottfredson: Criminology, theory, crime and policy

Sora Han: Law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis

John R. Hipp: Community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods

C. Ronald Huff: Criminology and public policy, wrongful convictions, gangs

Valerie Jenness: Links between deviance and social control (especially law), the politics of crime control and criminalization, social movements and social change, corrections and public policy

Paul D. Jesilow: Healthcare regulation, in particular the role of fraud; the police, in particular police-community relations

Charis E. Kubrin: Crime, neighborhood effects and social processes, race/ethnicity and violence, immigration and crime

Elizabeth F. Loftus: Cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Mona Lynch: Law and society, psychology and law, punishment and society, race and criminal justice

Cheryl Maxson: Crime and delinquency, youth violence, street gangs, juvenile justice system and policing

Richard McCleary: Criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

James W. Meeker: Sociology of law, criminal justice, research methodology, statistics, access to civil justice

Joan Petersilia: Program evaluation, public policy, juvenile justice

Henry N. Pontell: White-collar and corporate crime, criminology, criminal justice, deviance and social control, sociology of law

Justin B. Richland: Legal discourse analysis and semiotics, anthropology of law, contemporary Native American law and politics, the history, structures, and practices of North American (post)colonialism

Donna C. Schuele: Law and society, American legal/constitutional history, constitutional law, civil rights and civil liberties, women and law, crime and gender, judicial process and politics, California legal history

Carroll Seron: Sociology of law, sociology of professions, law and society, sociology of legal profession, methods and police misconduct

William C. Thompson: Psychology and law, criminal justice, human judgment and decision making, use of social science in appellate litigation

George E. Tita: Criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies

Susan F. Turner: Sentencing and corrections, applied research methods

James Diego Vigil: Urban research, urban poverty, culture change, socialization and education, psychological anthropology, street gangs in cross-cultural perspective, Mexico and U.S. southwestern ethnohistory, and comparative ethnicity

Sara Wakefield: Criminology, life-course sociology and stratification, incarceration, prison reentry

Geoff Ward: Race relations, courts and sentencing, juvenile justice, social movements, justice workers

Affiliated Faculty

Joseph DiMento (Law): Planning, land use and environmental law, use of social science in policy making, legal control of corporate behavior

Catherine Fisk (Law): Labor and employment law, civil rights

David Theo Goldberg (Comparative Literature): Race and racism, social and political theory, social-legal studies/law and society, South Africa

William Maurer (Anthropology): Anthropology of law; globalization, Caribbean, anthropology of money and finance, gender and kinship

Rubén G. Rumbaut (Sociology): International migration, immigration laws, criminalization, incarceration, inequality

Jennifer Skeem (Psychology and Social Behavior): Psychopathology and violence, mandated psychiatric treatment, psychology and law

Shauhin Talesh (Law): Civil procedure, consumer law, insurance, business organizations, empirical legal studies, law and society

Christopher Tomlins (Law): Law and humanities, law and society, legal history