Graduate Faculty
Blount, William R. (Ph.D., George Peabody College for Teachers, 1969; Professor)
Evaluation research; Substance abuse; Treatment programs; Consensual crime.
Bromley, Max L. (Ed.D., Nova University, 1992; Associate Professor) Campus crime
and policing; Community policing; Crime prevention: Police administration.
Cochran, John K. (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987; Professor) Criminological
theory, Quantitative research methods; Capital punishment.
Cuadrado, Mary (Ph.D., SUNY, 1996; Associate Professor) Substance use; Acculturation
and crime.
Dembo, Richard (Ph.D., New York University, 1970; Professor) Drug addiction; Juvenile
delinquency.
Fridell, Lorie (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1985) 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) Statistics, Violent Crime
Lersch, Kim (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1995; Associate Professor) Policing;
Race and crime; Research methods.
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.
Padgett, Kathy (Ph.D. Florida State University, Assistant Professor) Racial threat,
punitive attitudes, and social control and the use of intermediate sanctions for
adult offenders.
Unnever, James (Ph.D. Duke University, Professor) Causes of crime, racism, and public
opinion about crime.
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
Sullivan, Chris (Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005) Survey Research, Statistics and Methods