Faculty expertise broadly includes sociological, criminological, and criminal justice research areas related to social harms, social organization and disorganization, policing, courts, and correctional systems, life course sociology and criminology, causes and correlates of crime and deviance, responses to crime, laws, policies, and practices, and myriad forms of inequality. Teach required undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, including in the M.S. in Criminal Justice program, along with elective courses aligned with the candidates expertise and departmental needs.