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Current Students
2007 - 2008 Cohort
- Akhila Lalitha Ananth (aananth@uci.edu) juvenile justice and women in the criminal
justice system, her specific areas of concentration include foster care policy
and the juvenile emancipation process
- Adam Boessen (aboessen@uci.edu) bridging the gap between criminal involvement and
interactions with criminal networks, theory and
research methodologies specifically social control and how race and gender play
a role in sentencing guidelines
- Laura Bringer (lbringer@uci.edu) study of penology and the
prison system mainly types of punishment and the implementation and reliability
of punishment
- Ashley Demyan (ademyan@uci.edu) punishment, and law and society, the study of
deviance, culture, and inequality focusing on the study of punishment and its
application in correctional institutions
- Luis “Danny” Gascon (danny.gascon@uci.edu) correlation between criminal thinking and
creative ability and plans by studying creative traits and
levels of criminal activity among incarcerates, causes of crime, Latin
American extremism as it relates to immigration status and crime, gang
membership in Latin American communities, criminalization and hate crime, and
fraud crimes and how fraud might have been used to fund terrorism
- Gavin Lee (gavinl@uci.edu) theory, policy issues, and legal decision
making, Gavin’s main research interests include repeat sexual offenders and the
death penalty
- Marisa Omori (marisa.omori@uci.edu) applied criminal justice research that addresses
the significance of criminal justice policy on underrepresented groups
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Natasha Pushkarna (natasha.pushkarna@uci.edu) interaction of social, clinical and forensic
psychology
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Aaron Roussell (roussell@ uci.edu) drug policy including race and class
stratification,
research agenda that demonstrates the structural imperative of our criminal
system and examine the individualistic models that dominate the current public
discourse surrounding drug policy
- Matthew Valasik (mvalasik@uci.edu) life-course theory including how the
correctional system continually evolves around the needs of society and the
influence that recidivism and corrections have on neighborhoods, life events
and choices in individuals’ lives contribute to crime and recidivism including
the affects that these life events have on neighborhoods
2006 - 2007 Cohort
- Ferver, Kari (kferver@uci.edu)
comparative criminology, Japanese criminal justice, cybercrimes, and crim theory
- Goddard, Tim (tgoddard@uci.edu)
protective factors against criminal involvement, race and crime, law and social change
- Graves, Michelle (magraves@uci.edu)
death penalty, criminological theory and philosophy of law, human
rights issues, globalization and crime, social justice issues,
comparative criminology, race and crime, and morality and the law
- Myers, Randy (rrmyers@uci.edu)
corrections, reentry issues, and criminological theory
- Perry, Kasey (perryke@uci.edu)
- Sexton, Lori (lsexton@uci.edu)
corrections, specifically prison reform and human rights/social justice issues
- Smith, Sarah (sarahms@uci.edu)
deviance and social control, juvenile justice, restorative justice, prisoner re-entry, gender and crime, criminological theory
- Whitby, Alyssa (awhitby@uci.edu)
prison reform, sentencing and corrections policy, prisoner re-entry,
juvenile justice / delinquency, gangs, criminological theory
- Wilson, Abby (alwilson@uci.edu)
environmental crime, computer related crimes, and white collar/corporate crime
2005 - 2006 Cohort
- Carpenter, Katherine (kcarpent@uci.edu)
white collar and health care crimes, jury simulation studies, jury selection
- Gruner, Richard (rgruner@uci.edu)
white collar and corporate crime, other organizational misconduct, trade secret theft and crimes involving intellectual property
- Rosoff, Kate (krosoff@uci.edu)
legal and corrections reform, death penalty and sex offender laws
- Shah, Rita (rcshah@uci.edu)
prisoner re-entry, prison reform, corrections, death penalty
- Trager, Glenn (gtrager@uci.edu)
immigration and immigrant groups, social control
- Troshynski, Emily (etroshyn@uci.edu)
globalization and social exclusion, human rights violations, violence
against women and children, critical criminological theory,
gender/feminist theory, formal/informal methods of social control
- Velazquez, Brenda (bvelazqu@uci.edu)
scientific evidence, eyewitness testimony, psychology and the law
- Yates, Dan (dyates@uci.edu)
communities and crime, white collar crime
2004 - 2005 Cohort
- Artello, Kristine (kartello@uci.edu)
juvenile justice, sex offenders, registration and community notification laws, public policy
- Benz, Terressa A. (tbenz@uci.edu)
legal consciousness, social stratification, tactics of resistance, surveillance and social control
- Berkowitz, Shari R. (sberkowi@uci.edu)
memory and the law, specifically false memories and eyewitness testimony
- Dioso-Villa, Rachel A. (rdioso@uci.edu)
Scientific identification evidence in the courtroom, miscarriages of justice, jury simulation studies
- Henneberger, Kathryn (khennebe@uci.edu)
extremism, law and inequality, politics of human rights, race critical and feminist theories, sociology of violence
- Peterson, Andrew (apeterso@uci.edu)
white-collar crime and organized crime
- Tosouni, Anastasia (atosouni@uci.edu)
restorative justice, family violence, theories of crime
- Valenzuela, Sylvia (svalenzu@uci.edu)
violence against women, intimate partner homicide, gender, race, and class, immigration
- Werth, Robert (rwerth@uci.edu)
punishment, corrections and power, how individuals navigate and enact
parole, desistance from crime, media/public perspectives on crime and
their connections to policy and governance
2003 - 2004 Cohort
- Boggess, Lyndsay (lboggess@uci.edu)
the spatial analysis of crime, particularly related to housing and economics
- Braun, Michael (mbraun@uci.edu)
privatization of penal institutions, the use of prisoners as private
sector laborers, and reintegration of prisoners into society
- Campbell, Michael (mccampbe@uci.edu)
historical developments in punishment
- Goodman, Philip (pgoodman@uci.edu)
race, categorization and violence in prison, the history of criminological theory
- Lane, Samantha (smiths@uci.edu)
terrorism and security issues, counterterrorism measures and policy,
and information dissemination in regards to terrorism and security
- Nguyen, Tomson (tomsonn@uci.edu)
deviance, illegitimate gambling in Vietnamese communities, street gangs and street identity
- Pazzani, Lynn (lpazzani@uci.edu)
sexual assault, inequality, gender issues, statistics, crime theory
- Walker, Michelle (walkerm@uci.edu)
deviance, policing
2002 - 2003 Cohort
- Knox, Myesa (knoxm@uci.edu)
persons with mental illness and the justice system, offender reentry,
specialty/collaborative court systems, drug policy, mental health policy
- Matsuda, Kristy (knmatsud@uci.edu)
juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, punishment of juveniles, deterrence, and prison and youth correctional facility violence
- Sumner, Jennifer (jsumner@uci.edu)
philosophies of punishment, prison administration and management,
prison inmate and staff culture, prison violence, institutional and
organizational policy
2001 - 2002 Cohort
2000 - 2001 Cohort
1999 - 2000 Cohort

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