Crime, Justice, and Reform
Transnational criminal enterprises such as human and drug trafficking, money laundering, illicit wildlife trade, and cartel violence raise significant concerns in international crime and justice studies. Nationally, criminology and criminal justice are fundamentally concerned with promoting justice by investigating the causes of crime, the administration of justice, the law as a mechanism for justice and crime control, and policy evaluation. Though the causes of crime are multifaceted and population-specific, Green School faculty focus their research efforts on addressing the aforementioned issues by investigating topics that have measurable effects and long-lasting policy implications in the criminal justice field, ranging from local to international contexts.
| Department | Name | Faculty Research |
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Ellen Cohn | Work explores how environmental conditions influence the commission of crime |
| Works on issues related to criminal justice policy | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Stewart J D'Alessio | Works on issues related to crime, criminal justice policy and actors across varied socioeconomic and demographic groups |
| Work entails efficacy evaluations of criminal justice policy | ||
| Work explores issues related to criminal sentencing as a policy, as well as disparate impacts related to race and ethnicity | ||
| Work examines the role of terrorism in influencing criminal justice policy | ||
| Work involves the evaluation of medical cannabis legislation on US citizen overreliance on opioids and or benzodiazepines | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Jamie L Flexion | Works on issues related to crime, criminal justice policy, and actors across varied socioeconomic and demographic groups |
| Work entails efficacy evaluations of criminal justice policy | ||
| Works on issues related to the causes and correlates of juvenile delinquency and adult crime | ||
| Work evaluates issues related to the penological justification of capital punishment, as well as capital jury decision making | ||
| Work involves the evaluation of medical cannabis legislation on US citizen overreliance on opioids and or benzodiazepines | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Tim Goddard | Work deals with issues related to social justice in crime policy |
| Works on the politics of risk-based assessment and intervention for marginalized youth | ||
| Work involves investigating the consequences of using risk assessment instruments to predict future offending | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Rob T Guerette | Work deals with issues relevant to situational crime prevention in domestic policy |
| Works on evaluating criminal justice policies informed by the paradigm of problem and community-oriented policing | ||
| Works on policy and program evaluation in criminal justice | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Amy Hyman-Gregory | Works on evaluating the training methods for criminal justice practitioners concerning witness/victim interviewing |
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Suman Kakar | Work explores issues related to the international human trafficking of children |
| Works on issues related to the causes and correlates of juvenile delinquency | ||
| Works on issues related to crime prevention policies | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Besiki Luka-Kutateladze | Works on issues related to prosecutorial decision making that can disproportionately impact varied socioeconomic and demographic groups and its reform |
| Works on criminal justice issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community and hate crime | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Stephen Pires | Works with using geographic information system mapping to examine the patterns of varied illicit markets in the US and abroad |
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Lisa Stolzenberg | Works on issues related to crime, criminal justice policy, and actors across varied socioeconomic and demographic groups |
| Work entails efficacy evaluations of criminal justice policy | ||
| Work evaluates issues related to criminal sentencing as a policy as well as disparate impacts related to race and ethnicity | ||
| Works on issues related prosecutorial decision making that can disproportionately impact varied socioeconomic and demographic groups and its reform | ||
| Work involves the evaluation of medical cannabis legislation on US citizen overreliance on opioids and or benzodiazepines | ||
| Criminology and Criminal Justice | Kristen Zgoba | Work concerns the evaluation of domestic policy related to sex offender registration and notification |
| Works on the assessment of domestic correctional policy and correctional officer mental health for the New Jersey Department of Corrections | ||
| Work involves evaluating the role that conditions of confinement may have on recidivism among the post-release population | ||
| Economics | Jesse Bull | Studies information and evidence disclosure, evidence law, and jury decision making and bias |
| Economics | Nicholas Wright | Projects focusing on the impact of enhanced policing powers on crime. Also on other projects examining the effect of temperature on crime and crime on education |
| History | Jessica Adler | Works on relationships between health and incarceration in the US |
| History | Tovah Bender | Works on laws and use of the courts by non-elites in 15th century Florence to achieve their ends |
| History | Victor Uribe | Works on comparative history of criminal law, criminal justice, domestic violence, and punishment and has directed a major criminal justice reform program |
| History | Hector Valero | Works on the connections between criminal law, sexual/gender identity, and emotions |