Lacey Wallace, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, earned her doctorate at Penn State University. She previously worked with D. Wayne Osgood and the PROSPER Peers Project at Penn State, studying adolescent social networks and their effects on delinquency. Specializing in quantitative methods, families and juvenile delinquency, Lacey’s research involves 1) the influence of siblings and peers on delinquency and substance use through social networks; 2) weapon carrying, gun ownership and gun acquisition behavior; and 3) the effects of intervention and policy on these processes.