Graduate Faculty
Boggess, Lyndsay (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2009; Assistant Professor) Community context of crim; Race/ethnicity and crime; Schools and violence; Quantitative research methods.
Cochran, John K. (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987; Professor) Criminological
theory, Quantitative research methods; Capital punishment.
Dembo, Richard (Ph.D., New York University, 1970; Professor) Drug addiction; Juvenile
delinquency.
Fridell, Lorie (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1985; Associate Professor) Police use of force;
violence against police; racially biased policing.
Heide, Kathleen M. (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany, 1982; Professor) Homicide; Family violence;
Intervention strategies.
Jones, Shayne (Ph.D., University of Kentucky 2003; Assistant Professor) Statistics, Violent Crime
Lersch, Kim (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1995; Professor) Policing;
Race and crime; Research methods.
Loughran, Tom (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh; Assistant Professor) Quantitative methods and statistical modeling.
Lynch, Michael (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany 1988; Professor) Race, class, gender, crime and
justice; Criminological theory.
Mieczkowski, Tom (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1985; Professor) Drugs and drug
epidemiology; Ethnographic descriptions of criminal cultures; Evaluation research.
Mitchell, Ojmarrh (Ph.D., University of Maryland; Associate Professor)
Courts and sentencing; Race and crime; Drugs and crime; Meta-analysis.
Palacios, Wilson R. (Ph.D., University of Miami, Sociology, 1996, Associate Professor)
Qualitative Research Methods; Drug Cultures, Race and Ethnicity, and Violence.
Sellers, Christine S. (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987; Associate Professor)
Criminological theory; Juvenile delinquency; Domestic violence.
Smith, Dwayne (Ph.D. Duke, 1980, Vice Provost for Faculty and Program Development)
Violence, Homicide Studies, Capital Punishment Studies
Unnever, James (Ph.D. Duke University, Professor) Causes of crime, racism, and public
opinion about crime.