Our faculty conduct research in several areas within the field of Criminal Justice, including:

• Campus Crime
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Citizen evaluation of criminal justice
• Community Policing
• Comparative Criminology
• Comparative/international criminal justice and criminology
• Constitutional Criminal Procedure
• Correctional Counseling Methods
• Corrections
• Criminal Justice Policy
• Criminal Law
• Death Penalty attitudes abd Homicide
• Ecological Causes of Crime
• Families and Crime
• GIS Applications
• Interdisciplinary Analysis of Suicidal Behavior & Attitudes
• Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Delinquency
• Macro-Level Criminological Theory
• Neighborhood Processes and Crime
• Organizational behavior issues
• Organizational effects on criminal justice performance outcomes
• Perceptions of Police
• Police Brutality
• Policing & Society
• Positive Psychology
• Quantitative Analysis
• Research Methods
• Social Control
• Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• The effects of treatment interventions on institutional behavior and post-release behavior of convicted individuals
• Urban Sociology

For more information on our faculty and their research, please consult our Faculty Directory.