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Michael
L. Benson
Associate Professor
Professor Benson received his Ph.D. in Sociology from
the University of Illinois in 1982. He is a former Department
Head and Full Professor of Sociology at the University of
Tennessee. He joined the Criminal Justice faculty at the University
of Cincinnati in 2001. He has published extensively in the
areas of white-collar and corporate crime in leading journals,
including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research
and Delinquency, and Social Problems. In August
2000, he received the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Crime
and Juvenile Delinquency for his co-authored book, Combating
Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work. His research
has been funded by the National Institute of Justice as well
as private research foundations. His most recent project is
a book, Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction,
published by Roxbury Press. He teaches criminological theory,
white-collar crime, and life-course theory.
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Sandra Lee Browning
Associate Professor
Professor
Browning received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of
Cincinnati. She is an American Sociological Association Minority
Fellow as well as an American Society of Criminology Minority
Fellow. Within the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, she
has served as chairperson of the Affirmative Action Committee.
Her past publications have focused on the impact of race on
attitudes toward crime and justice. Her current research interests
are in the areas of crime and the underclass, the institutionalization
of black males, and the role of race in shaping views of the
criminal justice system. Her teaching interests are in the areas
of law and social control, critical perspectives in criminal
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Mitchell B. Chamlin
Professor
Professor
Chamlin received his Ph.D. in sociology from SUNY-Albany in
1985. He served eight years on the faculty of the department
of sociology at the University of Oklahoma immediately prior
to coming to UC in 1993. There he directed, along with Professor
John Cochran, the primary research project that led to Oklahoma's
new "Truth in Sentencing" Act. Currently, he serves
on the editorial advisory boards of Criminology and of
Crime and Justice. His research focuses on the elaboration
and falsification of macro-criminological theory. More specifically,
he has examined the macro-level determinants, across time and
space, of police force size, arrest rates, crime rates, and
use of lethal violence by agents of the state. He has published
over forty articles in journals including Criminology, Justice
Quarterly, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
His graduate teaching includes the nature of crime, advanced
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Francis T. Cullen
Distinguished Research Professor
Director of Distance Learning
Professor Cullen received his Ph.D. in Sociology and
Education from Columbia University in 1979. He is past editor
of Justice Quarterly and of the Journal of Crime and
Justice. He is the past president of the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences, and a fellow of both ACJS and the American
Society of Criminology. He has published extensively in the
area of corrections, including Reaffirming Rehabilitation
and Offender Rehabilitation: Effective Correctional Intervention.
He has contributed to the study of crime through Rethinking
Crime and Deviance Theory, Criminological Theory: Context and
Consequences, Criminology, Contemporary Criminological Theory,
Criminological Theory: Past to Present-Essential Readings.
His writings on the control of white-collar crime include Corporate
Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond and Combating
Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work. At present,
his research interests are in public opinion about correctional
rehabilitation, the relationship of social support to crime,
assessing the empirical adequacy of criminological theories,
and the measurement of sexual victimization. His forthcoming
publications include Social Support and Crime in America:
Building a New Criminology (with John Wright). He teaches
in the areas of correctional theory and criminological theory.
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John Eck
Associate Professor
Professor
Eck received his Master's Degree in Public Policy from the University
of Michigan in 1977 and his Ph.D. in criminology from the University
of Maryland in 1994. He is an internationally known expert in
policing, who has conducted research into problem-oriented and
community policing, drug enforcement, criminal investigations,
and crime prevention. Dr. Eck spent 17 years as the Research
Director of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington
D.C., where he spearheaded the development of problem-oriented
policing throughout the United States. He has also served as
the evaluation coordinator for the Washington/Baltimore High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally funded drug enforcement
and treatment project, where he conducted studies of drug markets
and trafficking. Dr. Eck has been a consultant to the London
Metropolitan Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Police
Foundation, and various police organizations. Since 1999 he
has served as a judge for the British government's Tilley Awards
for Problem-solving Excellence. He has written extensively on
criminal investigations, drug markets, crime mapping, and crime
places. His current research interests include the concentration
of crime at places and how to prevent it, crime displacement,
how prevention and offending adapt to each other, criminal investigations,
and the investigation of police misconduct. Dr. Eck teaches
courses in research methods, policy analysis, and police effectiveness.
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Graham Farrell
Associate Professor
Professor Farrell received his Ph.D. from the University
of Manchester in 1994. He has published over forty studies in
various areas of crime-related research, including the areas
of repeat victimization, crime prevention, policing, evaluation,
domestic and international drug policy, and victimization in
prisons. He has recently edited Repeat Victimization,
published in 2001 by Criminal Justice Press. Since 1999, he
has been a member of the research committee of the World Society
of Victimology. Prior to coming to the University of Cincinnati,
Professor Farrell was Deputy Research Director at the Police
Foundation and, before that, was a visiting professor at Rutgers
University. He also has worked at the United Nations in Vienna,
Austria, and-in the United Kingdom-at the University of Oxford,
the University of Huddersfield, the University of Manchester,
and the Home Office (the British government's justice department).
His teaching interests are in the areas of criminal justice
policy and management, victimology and crime prevention, policing,
and environmental criminology. |
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Bonnie S. Fisher
Associate Professor
Professor
Fisher received her Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern
University in 1988. Before joining the Division of Criminal
Justice she was a member of the Department of City and Regional
Planning at The Ohio State University and then of the Department
of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Fisher
has been the co-principal investigator or principal investigator
for four federally-funded research projects involving the victimization
of college students, the sexual victimization of college women,
violence against college women, and how colleges and universities
respond to the report of a sexual assault. Her research interests
also include issues concerning crimes against and within small
businesses, stalking, fear of crime, crime prevention and security,
the measurement of victimization, and attitudes toward punishment
and corrections. With over forty publications, she has recently
published in Criminology, Crime and Justice: A Review of
Research, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,
Violence and Victims, and Crime and Delinquency. Further,
Professor Fisher has been an invited member of several workshops
focusing on issues concerning the measurement and impact of
violence against women and the measurement of workplace victimization
sponsored by the Department of Justice, the Centers for Disease
Control, and the National Institute of Occupational and Safety
and Health. Dr. Fisher is currently the co-editor of the Security
Journal. Her teaching interests include research methods
and statistics, victimology, policy analysis, and crime prevention. |
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James Frank
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor Frank received his J.D. from Ohio Northern
University in 1977 and Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice
at Michigan State University in 1993. Dr. Frank has been the
principal investigator for a number of policing-related research
projects that primarily focus on understanding police behavior
at the street-level. Specifically, he has been involved with
studies observing officer behavior in the City of Cincinnati
and in twenty-one smaller suburban and rural police agencies,
co-principal investigator of a study investigating the use of
311 non-emergency response systems in Baltimore, Dallas, Phoenix,
and Buffalo, and co-principal investigator of a study examining
random gunfire detection systems in two cities. Since arriving
at the University of Cincinnati he has also been involved with
projects that assess the crime survey of the International Association
of Healthcare Safety and Security, a study assessing the organization
and effectiveness of Ohio's multijurisdictional drug task forces,
and a project examining juror understanding of death penalty
instructions. Dr. Frank has published policing articles in Justice
Quarterly, Police Quarterly, the American Journal of Police,
and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategy and
Management. He teaches courses in the areas of policing
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Edward J. Latessa
Professor
Division Head
Professor Latessa received his Ph.D. in Public Administration
in 1979 from Ohio State University. He has published over 50
works in the area of criminal justice, corrections, and juvenile
justice. He is co-author of Corrections in the Community,
which is now in its second edition, Probation and Parole
in America, Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods,
and Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice. Professor
Latessa has directed over fifty funded research projects, including
studies of day reporting centers, juvenile justice programs,
drug courts, intensive supervision programs, halfway houses,
and drug programs. Dr. Latessa served as President of the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences (1989-90). In 1998 he was made
an ACJS Fellow, and he has been honored with the Academy Founders
Award (1992) and with the Simon Dinitz award by the Ohio Community
Corrections Organization (1994). In January 1999, Dr. Latessa
received the Peter P. Lejins Award for Research from the American
Correctional Association. He teaches graduate courses in the
area of corrections and methods/statistics. |
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Lawrence F. Travis III
Professor
Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Research
Professor Travis received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice
from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982. He
served as research director for the Oregon State Board of Parole
and as a research analyst for the National Parole Institutes.
He is co-author of Changes in Sentencing and Parole Decision
Making: 1976-1978 and Policing in America: A Balance of Forces.
He is the author of Introduction to Criminal Justice, 4th
Edition, and editor of both Corrections: An Issues Approach
and Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections: A Reader.
He currently serves as editor of, Policing: An International
Journal of Police Strategies and Management, and contributes
regularly to criminal justice journals. Dr. Travis has published
over fifty articles and book chapters and has presented over
seventy papers at professional and scholarly meetings on a wide
range of criminal justice topics. He has served as a consultant
to local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies. His
research interests lie in policing, criminal justice policy
reform, sentencing, and corrections. At the graduate level,
he teaches courses in the areas of administration of justice
and theories of criminal justice/criminal justice. |
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Patricia Van Voorhis
Professor
Professor Van Voorhis received her Ph.D. in Criminal
Justice from the School of Criminal Justice at the State University
of New York at Albany and her bachelor's degree from the Maxwell
School of Citizenship at Syracuse University. Dr. Van Voorhis
is the author of Psychological Classification of the Adult
Male Inmate, and co-author of Correctional Counseling
and Rehabilitation. In addition, she has authored numerous
articles on correctional classification, prison adjustment,
and correctional treatment. She has directed research projects
pertaining to prison classification and correctional treatment
in both community and institutional settings. She serves as
a consultant to numerous federal, state, and local agencies.
Further, she is a past president of the Midwestern Criminal
Justice Association. At the University of Cincinnati, she teaches
courses in correctional treatment, evaluation research, and
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John D. Wooldredge
Associate Professor
Professor Wooldredge is a 1986 Ph.D. in Sociology from
the University of Illinois. His research and publications focus
on issues related to sentencing and institutional corrections.
His most recent projects include a study of sentencing disparities
under Ohio's determinate sentencing scheme (funded by the National
Institute of Justice), an examination of the correlates/causes
of inmate crime and victimization in U.S. prisons, and a study
of the interaction effects of legal sanctions and informal social
controls on the prevalence and incidence of re-arrest for domestic
violence in Cincinnati (funded by the National Institute of
Justice). Some of the products of these projects are published/forthcoming
in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology,
and Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Wooldredge is currently
writing a textbook titled Understanding Statistics in the
Social Sciences that will be published by Roxbury Press.
His teaching interests include statistics, institutional corrections,
and courts. |
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John Paul Wright
Assistant Professor
Professor Wright received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the
Criminal Justice program at the University of Cincinnati. Afterwards,
he served five years on the faculty at East Tennessee State
University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
He has published in leading criminal justice journals, including
Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Crime and Delinquency
on topics that include life-course development of criminal offending,
labor-market participation and crime, effective early intervention,
and correctional policy. Further, he is co-editor of Crimes
of Privilege; a reader on white-collar crime. His forthcoming
publications include Life-Course Criminology (to be published
by Anderson) and Social Support and Crime in America: Building
a New Criminology (to be published by Wadsworth). He currently
teaches courses in juvenile justice and life-course criminology. |
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