2019
Center faculty member Jane Stoever recently published a new book on domestic violence. Check it out here!
Former UCI student Lindsay Malloy recently testified as an expert witness and discussed her research relating to interrogation techniques and false confessions. Read about this case here!
April 2018
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was featured in an article on vox.com discussing how doctored photos can create false memories. Read more here.
March 2018
The Ph.D. program in criminology, law & society placed third in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings.
February 2018
Dr. Candice Odgers published her findings on the “digital divide” and its influence on low-income teens. Read the article here.
January 2018
The Master of Advanced Studies in Criminology, Law and Society was ranked the third best online masters program in criminal justice in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of social ecology, was selected as one of the 50 most influential living psychologists by Best Schools.
November 2017
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was quoted in Popular Science discussing how false memories can help parents get their children to eat their vegetables.
Dr. Keramet Reiter was honored with the Ruth Shonle Cavan Award for Young Scholars at the American Society of Criminology Conference.
Dr. Cheryl Maxson was quoted in the Orange County Register discussing the circumstances that lead gangs to emerge.
October 2017
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was featured in The Guardian in an article about repressed memories.
Dr. William Thompson helped put together a report for the American Association for the Advancement of Science detailing the problems with using fingerprint evidence.
Dr. Mona Lynch has been recognized with this year’s 2017 Michael J. Hindelang award, which is awarded to the author of a recent book that makes an outstanding contribution to research in criminology. Mona Lynch received this award for her book, “Hard Bargains: The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court.”
September 2017
Dr. Nicholas Scurich was quoted in Popular Science in an article discussing defense lawyers using genetic arguments in their cases.
MacLean’s Magazine quoted Dr. Pete Ditto in an article about discussing politics with someone with a different opinion or point of view.
August 2017
Research conducted by Dr. Valerie Jenness was featured in a KQED article about the mistreatment of LGBTQ prisoners.
2016-2017 News
June 2017
Dr. Pete Ditto was quoted by USA Today on the link between political discourse and violence. Read the full story here.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was interviewed in a New Yorker article discussing the role false memories played in the conviction of six individuals charged with murder.
Read about Dr. Mona Lynch’s recent research on federal drug crime policies.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was quoted in a Huffington Post article discussing FBI Director James Comey’s recorded memos of his interactions with President Donald Trump and discussed the downside of archiving memories in this manner.
USA Today interviewed Dr. Elizabeth Loftus in a piece discussing inconsistent witness testimony after a shooting in Appleton, Wisconsin.
May 2017
Center faculty member Dr. Pete Ditto was recently interviewed by the Orange County register relating to his work relating to morality and politics.
Dr. Keramet Reiter has been awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth Cavan Young Scholar Award, highlighting her contributions to the field of criminology.
April 2017
Professor Nicholas Scurich recently co-authored a paper in the Yale Law Review entitled, “Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline“
Read Dr. Elizabeth Loftus‘ essay in Time on the reasons people give false confessions, and specifically considers the role of sleep deprivation.
The UCI Master in Legal and Forensic Psychology was ranked #5 among the most affordable online colleges offering Master’s degrees.
March 2017
Dr. Linda Levine is featured in Wallet Hub and gives insight over what factors can affect a person’s happiness. You can check out the article here.
The UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society, is now the institutional home for the National Registry of Exonerations, the internationally recognized repository of information and research on exonerations of innocent defendants convicted of crimes in the U.S. Read more here!
February 2017
Drs. Kubrin and Seron are featured in The Mercury News for their research on AB 109, the first of its kind. Kubrin explains that the recent death of Whittier Officer Keith Boyer is not an accurate reflection of the current trends and research associated with AB 109.
January 2017
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is featured in the Wall Street Journal for her research on memory and discusses the accuracy behind “flashbulb’ memories. Read the article here!
Drs. Jodi Quas and Keramet Reiter were featured on Life of the Law’s 100th episode. They were invited to to share their stories, personal experiences, professional challenges, and discoveries about free speech and the judiciary, children and the legal system, imprisonment and culture, family law and poverty, and hate crimes and incivility in society. Listen here!
Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman is featured on Fox 47 News and Phys.org for
her research with her colleague Caitlin Cavanagh. Their research on mothers’ legal knowledge and youth re-offending indicates that when mothers were less knowledgeable about the legal system, their children were more likely to commit another crime if their mothers did not participate in legal proceedings. Read the article here.
Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman is quoted in Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, explaining why young adults have a range of needs that have to be considered when reforming the youth criminal justice system. Due to a young adult’s prematurely developed brain, their needs can drastically vary from person to person
December 2016
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is quoted in Broadly for her research on false memories. She gives insight as to how innocent women fall victim to confessing to crimes they are not guilty of.
November 2016
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. She is recognized for her significant contributions to social psychology, particularly human memory and its application to legal proceedings, and for dedicated service to AAAS on its board of directors. She joins eight University of California, Irvine researchers for this honor.
Teaching Professor Terry Dalton quoted in U.S. Police Shootings article.
Mona Lynch, is quoted in The Atlantic, using her research to illustrate why drug addicts are not going to recover adequately while in the criminal justice system. She elaborates over the need to have a true investment in public health and treatment programs to genuinely address addiction, instead of simply using the criminal justice system to reform addicts.
September 2016
The Pacific Standard discussed the research of Drs. Charis Kubrin, Nicholas Scurich and graduate student Adam Dunbar titled, The Threatening Nature of “Rap” Music.
Dr. Simon Cole was quoted in DW.com about the scientific validity of fingerprinting – read the article here.
August 2016
Dr. Linda Levine was mentioned in the Pacific Standard article titled “How False Memories Form.” Read the full article here.
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus was recently quoted in the Scientific American article “What Experts With You Knew about False Memories.” See the full article here.
Dr. Pete Ditto was quoted in the Wired article titles “How the Candidates’ Talking Points are Getting Inside your Head”
The Center welcomes a new faculty member, Dr. J. Zoe Klemfuss, who recently joined the Psychology and Social Behavior department. Learn more about here research here.
July 2016
Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman spoke at TEDx UCIrvine, discussing research on adolescent development and juvenile justice. Watch the full video here.
July 2016
Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman spoke at TEDx UCIrvine, discussing research on adolescent development and juvenile justice. Watch the full video here.
November 2015
Center Director Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman was interviewed by the LA Times, weighing in on juveniles’ capacity to understand their rights and competency to stand trial. Read the full article here.
Center Director Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman and Center faculty member Dr. Jodi Quas were special guest speakers at the 2015 Orange County Juvenile Justice Summit organized by the California Superior Court. Alongside the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and other practitioners, Dr. Cauffman and her colleagues advocated for providing academic and social support for at-risk youth. Read more here or here.
October 2015
As part of the University of California Consortium for Social Science and Law, Center faculty Mario Barnes, Elizabeth Cauffman, Peter Ditto, Elizabeth Loftus, Jodi Quas, L. Song Richardson, and Susan Turner presented at the Inaugural Conference on Social Science and the Law. Read more here.
Congratulations to Center faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Loftus who traveled to London to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London. This is her 7th, and the second one from a British university.
Center Director Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman and Center faculty member Dr. Michele Goodwin presented at the TEDxUCIrvine event as part of UC Irvine’s 50th Anniversary Festival of Discovery.
Center faculty member Dr. William Thompson was named Chair of the Human Factors Committee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), an organization sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the US Department of Justice for the purpose of developing standards and guidelines for forensic science. The Human Factors Committee consists of ten prominent psychologists and cognitive scientists.
September 2015
Center Director Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman was chosen as an expert panelist to speak at a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason, and several other members of the Executive Session on Community Corrections and the National Institute of Justice. Read more here.
Center faculty member Dr. Charis Kubrin was interviewed by Orange Coast Magazine about the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials. Read the full article here. Her important work was also featured in an article by Vox. Read the full article here.
June 2015
Center faculty members Elizabeth Loftus, Simon Cole, and William Thompson represented UCI in the development of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new Forensic Science Center for Excellence. Read the full article here
February 2015
Forbes published an article on February 11th that cited work by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus on the fallibility of eyewitness memory. Read the full article here
The New York Times article on false memories, published on February 9th, featured the work of Center faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. Read the full article here
DECEMBER 2014
Center faculty member, Dr. Kerry Parker Burnight, was named as one of Orange County’s 100 Most Influential People of 2014 on the OC Register list. Read the article featuring Dr. Burnight here
The UCI Center for Psychology and Law, together with our colleagues at UC Riverside, recently received a grant from the UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives to create a UC Consortium on Social Science and the Law. The award will allow us to bring together all the UC scholars who study psychology and legal issues. As part of this Consortium, we will be hosting a conference here at UCI (at the Bren Center – details to come) to showcase our faculty and a few noted papers will be selected for a special issue in UCI’s Law School Journal.
Congratulations to our own Dr. Nicholas Scurich, who recently received the 2015 Saleem Shah Early Career Contributions Award from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and the American Psychology-Law Society. This incredibly prestigious award goes to an outstanding rising star in the field whose work is transforming both science and policy in the field.
NOVEMBER 2014
Esteemed Center faculty member, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, was featured in the November 5th issue of VICE. The article focuses on Dr. Loftus’ decades of research on the topic of false memories. Take a look at the article here
OCTOBER 2014
Center Director, Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman, was recently interviewed by NJ.com about her stance on the recent events in Sayreville, New Jersey for which seven high school football players are now facing possible criminal prosecution. Throughout the article, Dr. Cauffman discusses what her research on adolescent development and juvenile delinquency suggests about charging juveniles as adults within the criminal court. Take a look at the article here
SEPTEMBER 2014
One of our Center faculty, Dr. Charis Kubrin, Professor of Criminology, Law, & Society, presented her fascinating work on the issue of “Rap on Trial” at the upcoming TEDxOrangeCoast Annual Conference. Watch the video from this event here
MARCH 2014
Congratulations to our own Dr. Charis Kubrin, whose important work on the issue of the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials was featured in the New York Times on March 26, 2014.Take a look at the article here
Our Center was featured in the March 24, 2014 supplemental issue of the Orange County Register, for coverage of our recent “Beyond CSI” event.Take a look at the article here – featured on pages 1 and 4
Elizabeth Cauffman, Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior and Director of the Center for Psychology and Law, was interviewed on March 11th, 2014 by Claudia Shambaugh on KUCI’s radio program, Ask a Leader. Cauffman spoke about her research on the juvenile justice system, specifically the decision making guidelines to reverse the expensive and unproductive incarceration traps set up in mandatory sentencing and zero tolerance policies.Listen to the interview
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