The more than 35 full-time faculty members of the Psychology Department offer a unique blend of expertise in research, scholarship, and teaching. Our adjunct faculty are often actively working in the forensic counseling field. A number of our faculty members have both law degrees and PhDs. Several have extensive experience as clinicians in forensic units of hospitals, in family court, or as consultants to police departments.
Among their interests are dangerousness, screening criminal justice applicants, jury and eyewitness research, insanity defense evaluations, child custody, the consequences of early childhood victimization, hostage negotiations, informed consent, group dynamics and cults, women and crime, delinquency, brainwashing, violence, and multicultural issues. Most have published significant articles and/or books on these and many other topics.
For more information about any of our faculty, view their faculty profiles here.