Center Director
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
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
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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