Faculty
Arnold Binder
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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University
Email: abinder@uci.edu
Specializations: research methodology, juvenile delinquency, police organization and methods |
Kitty Calavita
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Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Delaware, 1980
Phone: 824-7610
Office: 2379 SEII
Email: kccalavi@uci.edu
Specializations: sociology of law, criminology, social deviance, immigration, and inequality |
Simon A. Cole
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
Phone: 824-1443
Office: 2357 Social Ecology II
Email: scole@uci.edu
Specializations: science, technology, law, and criminal justice |
Susan Bibler Coutin
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Professor, Criminology, Law and Society; Anthropology
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, Stanford University, 1990
Phone: 824-1447
Office: 2369 SEII
Email: scoutin@uci.edu
Specializations: law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America |
Elliott P. Currie
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Professor
Ph.D, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 824-1387
Office: 2301 SE II
Email: ecurrie@uci.edu
Specializations: 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 the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice |
John Dombrink
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Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Phone: 824-6223
Office: 2315 SEII
Email: jddombri@uci.edu
Specializations: crime and criminal justice, deviance and social control |
Gil Geis
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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Phone: 824-1445
Office: 328 MPAA
Email: ggeis@uci.edu
Specializations: crime and criminal justice |
Michael Gottfredson
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Provost, Executive Vice Chancellor and Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York, Albany
Office: 509 Administration
Email: gottfred@uci.edu
Specializations: criminology, theory, crime and policy |
Sora Han
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz, J.D. UCLA
Phone: 949) 824-0050
Office: 2319 SEII
Email: sora.han@uci.edu
Specializations: law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis |
John R. Hipp
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Phone: 824-8247
Office: 2367 SEII
Email: hippj@uci.edu
Specializations: community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods |
C. Ronald Huff
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Professor of Social Ecology
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Phone: 824-6094
Office: 300G SEI
Email: rhuff@uci.edu
Specializations: criminology and public policy |
Valerie Jenness
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Interim Dean of Social Ecology
Professor, Criminology, Law and Society; Sociology
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Phone: (949) 824-3017
Office: 2385 Social Ecology II
Email: jenness@uci.edu
Specializations: links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy. |
Paul D. Jesilow
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Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Phone: 824-7195
Office: 2375 SEII
Email: paul.jesilow@uci.edu
Specializations: crime and criminal justice |
Elizabeth F. Loftus
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Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Phone: (949) 824-3285
Office: 2393 Social Ecology II
Email: eloftus@uci.edu
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Mona P. Lynch
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Phone: 949) 824-0047
Office: 2311 SE II
Email: lynchm@uci.edu
Specializations: law and society, psychology and law, punishment and society, race and criminal justice |
Cheryl Maxson
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Phone: 824-5150
Office: 2309 SEII
Email: cmaxson@uci.edu
Specializations: crime and delinquency, youth violence, juvenile justice system and policing street gangs |
Richard McCleary
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Professor of Social Ecology and Director of MRRC Biostatistics Core
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Phone: 824-7280
Office: 260 SEI
Email: mccleary@uci.edu
Specializations: criminal justice, research methodology, statistics |
James Meeker
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Professor and Associate Dean
Ph.D., J.D., SUNY at Buffalo
Phone: 824-1463
Office: 300 Social Ecology 1
Email: jwmeeker@uci.edu
Specializations: Sociology of Law, Criminal Justice, Research methodology, Statistics |
Calvin Morrill
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Professor and Chair of Sociology
PhD, Harvard University
Phone: 824-9322
Office: SSPB 4203
Email: calvin@uci.edu
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Joan Petersilia
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Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Phone: 824-6438
Office: 410C MPAA
Email: jrpeters@uci.edu
Specializations: Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Juvenile Justice |
Henry N. Pontell
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Professor
Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Phone: 824-6153
Office: 2389 SEII
Email: pontell@uci.edu
Specializations: Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology of Law, White-Collar and Corporate Crime |
Justin B. Richland
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA; J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law
Phone: 824-5756
Office: 2361 SEII
Email: j.b.richland@uci.edu
Specializations: 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
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Lecturer PSOE
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Phone: (949) 824-4358
Office: 2303 Social Ecology 2
Email: dschuele@uci.edu
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Carroll Seron
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Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Phone: 824-6279
Office: 2373 SE II
Email: seron@uci.edu
Specializations: Sociology of Legal Profession, Methods and Police Misconduct |
William C. Thompson
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Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Stanford University; J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 824-1437
Office: 2340 SE II
Email: wcthomps@uci.edu
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George E. Tita
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Associate Professor
BA - University of Pittsburgh, MS - Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. - CMU
Phone: 824-4927
Office: 2307 SEII
Email: gtita@uci.edu
Specializations: criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies |
Susan Turner
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Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Phone: 949-824-6943
Office: 410B MPAA
Email: sfturner@uci.edu
Specializations: sentencing and corrections, applied research methods |
James Diego Vigil
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Professor
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 824-6113
Office: 2355 SEII
Email: vigil@uci.edu
Specializations: 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
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Phone: 824-5134
Office: 2340 Social Ecology 2
Email: sara.wakefield@uci.edu
Specializations: Criminology, crime and public policy, life course sociology and stratification, incarceration, prison reentry. |
Geoff Ward
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan
Phone: 824-4695
Office: 2317 SE II
Email: gward@uci.edu
Specializations: Racial politics of social control, juvenile justice, court organizations, the justice workforce. |
