CRJ MA Core Faculty

Full-time Faculty
Name Expertise Department
Avram Bornstein Community Policing; Police Training; Race Relations; Israeli Palestinian Conflict; Borders; Political Violence; Political Prisoners; Social Movements Anthropology
Katarzyna Celinska Corrections, Incarcerated Women, Crime Prevention Program Evaluation, Juvenile Justice, International Crime & Criminal Justice, Migration Law Police Science
Shuki Cohen Psychology, Criminology, Terrorism Psychology
Alessandra Early Spatial dynamics, Identity Formation, Behavior Criminal Justice
Josh Freilich Causes of & Responses to Terrorism, Environmental Criminology, Measurement Issues Criminal Justice
Robert Garot Deviance, Law and Society, Sociology of Education, and Sociology of Emotions Sociology
Lior Gideon Correctional treatment; rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders; program e valuation and as sessment; research methodology; survey methodology and statistical analysis Law Police Science
Heath Grant program evaluation, evidence-based policy, assessment, curriculum development, democratic policing, social crime prevention, school-based crime prevention, social-emotional learning, animal assisted interventions Law Police Science
Maria Haberfeld Policing with Emphasis on Comparative, Training, Leadership, Integrity and Ethics, Comparative Criminal Justice, Counter-Terrorism Law Police Science
Christopher Hermann Crime analysis and crime mapping Law Police Science
Lila Kazemian Life-course and Criminal Career Research, Desistance from Crime, Prisoner Reentry, Comparative Research Sociology
Dennis Kenney Policing in Conflict Settings. Transnational Crime. Police Problems Criminal Justice
Deborah Koetzle Corrections, Drug Courts, Risk/Need Assessment, Program Evaluation Public Management
Louis Kontos Deviance, gangs, social movements, social and criminological theory Sociology
Brian Lawton Crime and Place, Intersection of Health and Criminal Justice, GIS Criminal Justice
Yue Ma Comparative study of law and criminal justice Law Police Science
Jeff Mellow Correctional policy and practice, evaluation research, reentry and critical incident analysis in corrections Criminal Justice
Peter Moskos Police patrol and crime prevention, drug violence, police culture, community policing, police/minority relations, qualitative methods Law Police Science
Mangai Natarajan Criminological Theory, Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, Cross-Cultural Studies in Criminal Justice, Drug Trafficking, Policing, Comparative Cross-Cultural Research, International Criminal Justice and Violence against Women Criminal Justice
Gohar Petrossian Environmental Criminology, Wildlife Crime, Problem-Oriented Policing, Spatial Analysis of Crime Criminal Justice
Frank Pezzella Criminology Theory; Environmental Criminology; Hate Crimes; Race and Crime; Research Methods Criminal Justice
Meriem Rebbani National Security; Terrorism; Counter-terrorism policy; Violent Extremism Criminal Justice
Peter Romaniuk Terrorism Studies Political Science
Jon Shane Police Policy and Practice, Violent Crime, and Situational Crime Prevention, Theoretical Interests include Routine Activities, Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology Law Police Science
Itai Sneh Global history of international human rights and justice; Spectrum of American history issues; international law; terrorism; homeland security; genocide; Israel and the Middle East History
Hung-en Sung Substance Abuse and Treatments, Political Corruption, Policing, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Program Evaluation Criminal Justice
Karen Terry Sexual Abuse, Victimization, Sex Offender Policy Criminal Justice
Lucia Trimbur Race and Racisms, Gender, Urban Sociology and Inequality, The Sociology of Crime and Punishment, Sport Occupational Health, and Ethnographic Field Methods Sociology
Valli Rajah-Mandery Intimate Partner Violence Criminal Justice
Valerie West Criminal Justice, Sociology of Punishment, Death Penalty, Inequality and Crime Criminal Justice
Kevin Wolff Spatial Patterning of Crime, Criminological Theory, Quantitative Methods and Juvenile Justice Criminal Justice
Sung-Suk Violet Yu Environmental Criminology, Correctional Health, Spatial Pattern Analysis, Crime Prevention Criminal Justice
Adjunct Faculty
Name Expertise Department
Jeanene Barrett Policing Criminal Justice MA
Jeff Coots Public Health Criminal Justice MA
Marni Finkelstein Youth Crime Anthropology
Rainer Kroll Crime Mapping Law Police Science
John Laffey Criminal Justice policy; policing Criminal Justice MA
Nathan Newman Civil and public law; political economy Criminal Justice MA
Nikolaos Petropoulos Terrorism Center on Terrorism
Hammad Sheikh Terrorism Center on Terrorism
David Viola Terrorism Center on Terrorism