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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
  • Natasha Pushkarna (natasha.pushkarna@uci.edu) interaction of social, clinical and forensic psychology
  • 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

2004 - 2005 Cohort

2003 - 2004 Cohort

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

 
 
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
School of Social Ecology
2340 Social Ecology II
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-7080
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