Faculty members in the school are involved in important and policy-relevant research on issues that span the discipline of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Areas of expertise

• Childhood Conduct Disorders
• Children and the Law
• Community and Institutional Corrections
• Community Policing and Problem-Oriented Policing
• Constitutional Criminal Procedure
• Corruption
• Crime Analysis
• Criminal Justice Policy
• Criminology in Developing Nations
• Effects of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on Sentencing Decisions
• Fraud Victimization
• Gangs
• Gender & Crime
• Immigration, Crime, and Social Justice
• The Insanity and Diminished Capacity Defenses
• Juvenile Court Processes
• Legal Psychology and Legal Socialization
• Neighborhoods, Crime, and Disorder
• Organizational Leadership
• Police Use of Force
• Police and Technology
• Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
• Psychopathy and Criminal Offending
• Sentencing and Plea Bargaining 
• Sex, Sexuality, Law, and Justice
• Social Control
• Sociology of Punishment
• SuperMax Prisons
• Victimization
• Violence and Violent Crime
• White-collar Crime