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Center Faculty

Elizabeth Cauffman

Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law

Ph.D. Temple University

(949) 824-4075

cauffman@uci.edu

4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

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Simon A. Cole

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., Cornell University

(949) 824-1443

scole@uci.edu

2357 Social Ecology II

Specializations: science, technology, law, and criminal justice

 Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Distinguished Professor of Law

J.D., University of Pennsylvania

(949) 824-1987

cmeadow@law.uci.edu

401 East Peltason Drive
Law 4800-J

Peter H. Ditto

Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D., Princeton University

(949) 824-1844

phditto@uci.edu

4209 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

 

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Michele Goodwin

Chancellor’s Professor of Law

LL.M. University of Wisconsin; J.D. Boston College Law School

(949) 824-3897

mgoodwin@law.uci.edu

401 E. Peltason Dr., Law 4800-S

Specializations: Bioethics, constitutional law, family law, human rights, medical law, reproductive rights, torts

Valerie Jenness

Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, Sociology and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

(949) 824-3017

jenness@uci.edu

3305 Social Ecology II

Specializations: Links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization, social movements and social change, and corrections an public policy.

J. Zoe Klemfuss

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. Cornell University

(949) 824-4412

jklemfus@uci.edu

4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: narrative development; children’s autobiographical memory; sociocontextual influence on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being; children’s eyewitness abilities

 

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Charis E. Kubrin

Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D., University of Washington

(949) 824-0704

ckubrin@uci.edu

3379 Social Ecology II

Specializations: crime, neighborhood effects and social processes, race/ethnicity and violence, immigration and crime

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

Linda Levine

Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D., The University of Chicago

(949) 824-7692

llevine@uci.edu

4568 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: bias in predicted and remembered emotions

loftusElizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology Law and Society; Cognitive Science, Law
Ph.D., Stanford University
(949) 824-3285
eloftus@uci.edu

2393 Social Ecology II

Specializations: cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

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Mona Lynch

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

(949) 824-0047

lynchm@uci.edu

2311 Social Ecology II

Specializations: law and society, psychology and law, criminal procedure in practice, punishment and society, race and criminal justice

Ray Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco

Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. Indiana University

(949) 824-7206

rwnovaco@uci.edu

4343 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions

Candice Odgers

Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. University of Virginia

4556 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

codgers@uci.edu

Specializations: developmental and quantitative psychology; social inequalities and child health; new technologies and adolescent development

Jodi Quas

Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Davis

(949) 824-7693

jquas@uci.edu

4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: memory development, children’s involvement in the legal system

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

reiter2Keramet Reiter

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law

Ph.D., J.D., University of California, Berkeley

(949) 824-9201

Professor of Law

reiterk@uci.edu

3373 Social Ecology II

Specializations: prisons, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

richardsonL. Song Richardson

Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law

     Joint appointment in Criminology, Law and Society

Joint appoint in Asian American Studies

J.D., Yale Law School

(949) 824-4158

srichardson@law.uci.edu

401 E. Peltason Drive, Law 3800-A

Specializations: Criminal procedure, criminal law, law and social science

 

Nicholas Scurich

Associate Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California

(949) 824-4046

nscurich@uci.edu

4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations: psychology & law, judgment and decision making, violence risk assessment

 

Jane K. Stoever

Clinical Professor of Law
LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. Harvard Law School
(949) 824-3418

jstoever@law.uci.edu

401 E. Peltason Dr., Law 4800-M

Specializations: domestic violence law, family law, feminist legal theory, clinical legal theory

Video – Presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

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William C. Thompson

Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law, and Society and Psychological Science

Ph.D. Standford University, J.D. University of California, Berkeley

(949) 824-6156

wcthomps@uci.edu

3301 Social Ecology II

Specializations: forensic science, expert evidence, human judgment and decision making

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

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Susan F. Turner

Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society

Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

(949) 824-6943

sfturner@uci.edu

3336 Social Ecology II

Specializations: sentencing and corrections

Kristen Turney

Associate Professor of Sociology

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

(949) 824-8846

kristen.turney@uci.edu

4283 SSPB

Specializations: social inequality; family demography; population health; incarceration and punishment; intergenerational transmission of disadvantage; child well-being

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Benjamin van Rooij

Professor of Law and Society, University of Amsterdam

Ph.D., Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands

(949) 824-5601

b.vanrooij@uva.nl

Specializations: Implementation of the law, regulatory law enforcement and compliance, rights evocation, and legal empowerment

Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

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