Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Student Profiles

Current Students

Jehad Alyahya

Jehad Alyahya

Research Interests
Police corruption, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Law Enforcement Investigations and Response, Application of Criminological Theories

Academic CV

Joseph Cusano

Joseph Cusano

Research Interests
Cyber Forensics and Cybersecurity, Cybercrimes, Evidence-based Policing, Police-community Relationships, Policing, Secondary Traumatic Stress

Academic CV

Sudeshna Das

Sudeshna Das

Research Interests
Sexual Deviance, Crime Mapping & Analysis, Juvenile Justice, Criminological Theories

Academic CV

Victoria Espinoza

Victoria Espinoza

Research Interests
Gender, Race, Reentry, Rehabilitation, Risk assessment and Trauma

Academic CV

Agnetha Gillbanks

Agnetha Gillbanks

Research Interests
Drug abuse, Drug trafficking, Substance-using behaviors, Mental health and crime, and Violent crimes

Academic CV

Kristi Greenberg

Kristi Greenberg

Research Interests
Correctional Practices and Institutional Cultures; Street Gangs within a Correctional Setting; Sex Offender Registration Policy and Public Perception; Barriers for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims

Patryk Jaroszkiewicz

Patryk Jaroszkiewicz

Research Interests
Policing, Police (Culture, Training, Management), International Law Enforcement, Comparative Research, Qualitative Research, Evidence Based Practices

Academic CV

Jasmine Kaur

Jasmine Kaur

Research Interests
Application of Criminological Theories in Cyber Space, Risk assessment, Research Methods, Evaluations, Statistics, Forensic Science

Academic CV

Kylie McCarthy

Kylie McCarthy

Research Interests
Forensic Science, Biosocial Criminology, Domestic Terrorism, and Interrogations

Academic CV

Ashley McDowell

Ashley McDowell

Research Interests
Gun Violence, Victimization, Intimate Partner Violence, Police/Community Relations, Law Enforcement Training, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention, Intersection of Victims and Law Enforcement.

Academic CV

Jane Miller

Jane Miller

Research Interests
Criminalistics and Forensic Science, Reentry, Solitary Confinement

Academic CV

Jessica Morgan

Jessica Morgan

Research Interests
Critical Criminology, Youth Justice, Transformative Justice, Racial and Ethnic Disparity, Incarceration

Academic CV

Nikhil Chandra Nath

Nikhil Chandra Nath

Research Interests
Financial Organized Crime and Corruption, Technology Driven Crime Management, Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing, Indigenous Political Movement, Political Prisoner and Unauthorized Detention, Gender Based Violence.

Academic CV

Teresina G. Robbins

Teresina G. Robbins

Research Interests
Policing, Investigations, Training, Research Translation

Academic CV

Mariah Robles

Mariah Robles

Research Interests
Juvenile justice, corrections, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, recidivism, family violence and intergenerational trauma

Academic CV

Sherry Siller

Sherry Siller

Research Interests
Domestic Terrorism, Mental Illness in Criminal Populations, and the Economic Impacts of Over Policing

Academic CV

Samantha Tosto

Samantha Tosto

Research Interests
Police-community relations; gender; racial and ethnic disparities; critical criminology; research methodology; evaluation

Academic CV

Megan Trafford

Megan Trafford

Research Interests
Mental Health and CJS Involvement; Intersections of Race, Gender, Class, Culture and Crime; Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Convictions; Victimization; Critical Criminology; Criminal Competencies and Forensic Psychology

Academic CV

Tsung Tsai

Tsung Tsai

Research Interests
Cyber Forensics, Application of Criminological Theories in Cyberspace, Cybercrime Evolution and Patterns, Computer and Cybersecurity

Academic CV

Gregory Wadsworth

Gregory Wadsworth

Research Interests
Corrections and Incarceration, Mental Illness ,Reentry, Statistics and Data Analysis, Research Methods

Academic CV

Mengbei Wang

Mengbei Wang

Research Interests
Wrongful Convictions, Policing, Law Enforcement Training, Criminalistics and Forensic Science, and Investigations

Academic CV

Jing Xiao

Jing Xiao

Research Interests
Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, International Policing, Research Methods, and Applications of Criminological Theory

Academic CV

Tianyin Yu

Tianyin Yu

Research Interests
Juvenile Delinquency, Early Intervention, Biosocial Criminology

Academic CV

Ewa Zielinska

Ewa Zielinska

Research Interests
Implementation and Evaluation Research, Trauma and Resiliency, Policing, Juvenile Justice, Corrections and Reentry, Mindfulness and Mental Health, Restorative Justice, Data Visualization

Academic CV

Alban Zohn

Alban J. Zohn

Research Interests
Sports and Esports Crime, Organized Crime, Match-Fixing, and White-Collar Crime

Academic CV