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Center for Psychology and Law Affiliates

Center Director


Elizabeth Cauffman, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Cauffman

Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law
Director, Masters of Legal and Forensic Psychology Program


Specializations: adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy
Video: Research presentation at “Beyond CSI”


Contact Information
cauffman@uci.edu
(949) 824-4075
4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Assistant Director


Sarah Miltimore

Assistant Director, Masters of Legal & Forensic Psychology Program
Assistant Director, Center for Psychology and Law


Contact Information
smiltimo@uci.edu
(949) 824-1329
4313 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Center Faculty


Simon A. Cole

Simon Cole

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Specializations
science, technology, law, and criminal justice

Video
Research presentation at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

Contact Information
scole@uci.edu
(949) 824-1443
2357 Social Ecology II

Peter H. Ditto

Professor of Psychological Science

Specializations
Social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning

Video

Research presentation at “Beyond CSI”

Contact Information
phditto@uci.edu
(949) 824-1844
4209 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Michele Goodwin

Chancellor’s Professor of Law

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

Contact Information
mgoodwin@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-3897
401 E. Peltason Dr., Law 4800-S


Valerie Jenness

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

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.

Contact Information
jenness@uci.edu
(949) 824-3017
3305 Social Ecology II

J. Zoe Klemfuss

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science

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

Contact Information
jklemfus@uci.edu
(949) 824-4412
4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Charis E. Kubrin

Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

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

Video
Research presentation at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

Contact Information
ckubrin@uci.edu
(949) 824-0704
3379 Social Ecology II


Linda Levine

Professor of Psychological Science

Specializations
bias in predicted and remembered emotions

Contact Information
llevine@uci.edu
(949) 824-7692
4568 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology Law and Society; Cognitive Science, Law

Specializations
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Video
Presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

Contact Information
eloftus@uci.edu
(949) 824-3285
2393 Social Ecology II

Mona Lynch

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

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

Contact Information
lynchm@uci.edu
(949) 824-0047
2311 Social Ecology II


Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Distinguished Professor of Law

Contact Information
cmeadow@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-1987
401 East Peltason Drive
Law 4800-J

Raymond W. Novaco

Professor of Psychological Science

Specializations
anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions

Contact Information
rwnovaco@uci.edu
(949) 824-7206
4343 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Candice Odgers

Professor of Psychological Science

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

Contact Information
codgers@uci.edu
4556 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway


Jodi Quas


Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science

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

Video
Research presentation at “Beyond CSI”

Contact Information
jquas@uci.edu
(949) 824-7693
4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Keramet Reiter

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law

Specializations
prisons, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society
Video – presentation of research at “Beyond CSI – Part II”

Contact Information
reiterk@uci.edu
(949) 824-9201
3373 Social Ecology II

L. Song Richardson

Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law

     Joint appointments in
Criminology, Law and Society
Asian American Studies

Specializations
Criminal procedure, criminal law, law and social science

Contact Information
srichardson@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-4158
401 E. Peltason Drive, Law 3800-A


Nicholas Scurich

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

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

Contact Information
nscurich@uci.edu
(949) 824-4046
4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Jane K. Stoever

Jane Stoever

Clinical Professor of Law

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

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

Contact Information
jstoever@law.uci.edu
949) 824-3418
401 E. Peltason Dr., Law 4800-M

William C. Thompson

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

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

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

Contact Information
wcthomps@uci.edu
949) 824-6156
3301 Social Ecology II


Susan F. Turner

Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society

Specializations
sentencing and corrections

Contact Information
sfturner@uci.edu
(949) 824-6943
3336 Social Ecology II

Kristen Turney

Associate Professor of Sociology

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

Contact Information
kristen.turney@uci.edu
(949) 824-8846
4283 SSPB

Benjamin van Rooij

Professor of Law and Society, University of Amsterdam

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

Video
Presentation of research at “Beyond CSI”

Contact Information
vanrooij@uva.nl
(949) 824-5601

Graduate Student Researcher


Emily Kan

Doctoral Candidate in Psychological Science
kane1@uci.edu

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