Below is a list a students that I have been fortunate to mentor. All of them do really interesting work, so feel free to reach out and connect with them!
Doctoral Student, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Arizona State University
Research Interests: juvenile delinquency, risk and protective factors for antisocial behavior, psychometrics, parenting influences on youth behavior, gender differences.
Assistant Professor, Seattle University
Bio: A Johannes “Jon” Bottema is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics at Seattle University. Dr. Bottema focuses on practical research that positively impacts law enforcement agencies at various levels and the communities they serve. In particular, he is interested in evidence-based policing and the utilization of intelligence within law enforcement. His work has appeared in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Policing: An International Journal, and the Journal of Drug Issues.
Research Interests: evidence-based policing, intelligence-led policing, and security studies.
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at University of Mississippi
Bio: Katharine Brown (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. Katharine’s research is on policing and homelessness. More specifically, she uses mixed methodology to evaluate innovative police strategies and coordinated responses to issues of homelessness. Her research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, and Policing: An International Journal.
Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bio: Suzanne St. George Coble, is an Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her research focuses on sexual violence, including theories of perpetration, rape myth acceptance, consent communication, and sexual assault case processing. She is also interested in how race, gender, and sexuality intersections influence perceptions of and responses to rape.
Research Interests: Sexual violence; police, prosecutor, and jury decision-making; social structure, inequality, and disparity; race, gender, and criminal justice; feminist and queer criminologies; qualitative methods.
Research Fellow in Youth Justice, School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland
Bio: Eoin is a member of the Research Evidence into Policy Practice and Programmes (REPPP) Project specializing in Youth Justice and Youth Crime research in Ireland. Eoin is also part of the Youth Diversion Project Research and Development Team funded by the Department of Justice in Ireland. He holds a master’s degree in criminology and PhD in Law. His PhD research focused on community youth crime intervention, collective efficacy and young people caught up in serious crime or criminal networks. Eoin was previously a youth worker, youth justice project coordinator and then manager working on the ground in marginalized communities in Ireland. He has coordinated and managed several Garda (Police) Youth Diversion Projects over a 10-year period. He has specialist expertise in the areas of professional relationships and youth crime intervention along with youth justice or youth crime program development in communities. Eoin is the author of the Bluetown report, an examination of young peoples involved in adult criminal networks in an anonymized Irish Police district. This report is part of the overarching Greentown project that aims to address the issues of young people being exploited by criminal networks in Ireland.
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Bio: Chantal received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine; her Master’s degree from California State University, Long Beach; and her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University. Her research focuses on reentry and reintegration from prison, health criminology, institutional corrections, and the intersection of incarceration and public health. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Criminal Justice and Behavior. Her recent work has been published in Journal of Adolescent Health, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Criminal Justice, Preventive Medicine, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology. In 2023, Chantal won the Alumni Award for Early Career Excellence from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, East Carolina University
Research Interests: The nexus between formal social control and criminal justice policy and practice. To date, this work has primarily focused on the application of procedural justice in policing and 911 call-taker domains, as well as police use of technology.
Senior Research Associate in the Research Unit at the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
Research Interests: The collateral consequences of incarceration, correctional and public policy, and prison reentry. Her research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research, and Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Associate Professor, Portland State University, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Bio: Arynn got her PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2020. Her research examines how race and ethnicity shape perceptions of threat, punishment preferences, and justice system outcomes in the United States. Using advanced quantitative methods, including structural equation modeling and survey-based research, she focuses on the social and psychological mechanisms linking perceived group threat to punitive attitudes and policies, as well as on efforts to develop and validate constructs that are often difficult to capture empirically.
Dr. Infante’s work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Justice Quarterly. She developed the Perceived Latino Threat Scale, a validated measure used to assess multidimensional Latino threat perceptions across economic, political, and criminal domains.
In addition to her research, she teaches courses on race, crime, and justice, as well as criminal justice research methods, emphasizing inclusive, research-informed pedagogy and student engagement. Her broader scholarly agenda includes ongoing work on prison social order, correctional climate, and public attitudes toward immigration and punishment.
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
Bio: Logan Ledford obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN. He currently attends Georgia State University’s Criminal Justice and Criminology doctoral program, with a prospective graduation year of 2024. His general research interests include policing, network analysis, and the study of criminal groups and organizations, attempting to intersect those lines of work. His recent work has been published in Crime & Delinquency, Police Practice & Research, and Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. His dissertation aims to help better understand how social dynamics between officers condition attitudinal outcomes through using network analysis to analyze officer friendship networks.
Research Criminologist in the Corrections and Reentry Research Program at RTI International
Bio: Travis Meyers is a research criminologist in the Corrections and Reentry Research Program at RTI International. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2018. Dr. Meyers’s research interests include corrections and correctional policy, the use and impact of restrictive housing, offender rehabilitation, and program evaluation. He also holds a part-time appointment as a lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He has extensive experience working with local and state correctional agencies to conduct qualitative, quantitative, and program evaluation studies with a focus on improving outcomes for correctional staff and incarcerated people. Dr. Meyers’s work has been published in a number of outlets, including Criminology, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Mental Health, and Journal of Criminal Justice, among other criminal justice and policy journals.
Associate Research Analyst, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)
Bio: Victor Mora received his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2023. He is currently an Associate Research Analyst at the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and has worked on several law enforcement and juvenile diversion program evaluations funded by federal, state, and local organizations.
Research Interests: program evaluation, policing, violent crime.
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Department, Saint Anselm College
Bio: Stephanie Morse is an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Saint Anselm College. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2022. Stephanie’s work is focused on prison life and prison social organization, with a particular emphasis on rehabilitation and promoting positive outcomes with correctional populations. More broadly, she is committed to engaging in research, teaching, and service that is strengths-based, inclusive, and uplifts others.
Research Interests: Prison rehabilitation, prison life, prison social organization, corrections, qualitative methods.
Senior Research Analyst at the New York City Criminal Justice Agency
Research Interests: The collateral consequences of jail and prison, social support and social networks, public policy, and applied quantitative methods. Her research agenda broadly aims to demonstrate the value of supportive actions made by others and provide practical solutions for how this can be enhanced. Raven’s recent work has been published in the International Journal of Housing Policy and the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department at Georgia Southern University
Research Interests: Emerging issues within policing which includes officer experience, use of force, police culture, and evidence-based policing.
Doctoral Student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University
Research Interests: criminological methods and theory, political violence, gangs, and organized crime.
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, University of Mississippi
Research Interests: Primary research and teaching interests include criminology, gender and crime, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and race and crime.