Criminology
People specializing in this area
Faculty
Eric P. Baumer
Criminology, Community and Urban Sociology, Law and Social Control, Demography, Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics
Diane Felmlee
Social Networks, aggression and friendship networks, cyberbullying
Richard Felson
Social psychology of violence; race, regional, and national differences in violence
Corina Graif
communities and crime, with a focus on mobility and neighborhood effects on children and youth and on the spatial stratification of violence, risk, and opportunity
Derek Kreager
Incarceration and community re-entry, adolescent social networks and health-risk behaviors
Thomas A. Loughran
criminology, offender decision-making, public policy
Holly Nguyen
Rewards from criminal and non-criminal behavior, consequences of group crime, illicit drug markets
David Ramey
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control,Behavioral Health,Social Demography,Social Disparities in Population Health,Immigration/Migration,Quantitative Methods
Barry Ruback
criminal victimization, crime victims’ reporting, sentencing
Eric Silver
morality and rule breaking behavior, the relationship between mental disorder and violence/victimization, deviance
Jeremy Staff
Criminology, Life Course Studies, Stratification
Darrell Steffensmeier
theory construction, including development of theories of gender/crime relationship, age/crime relationship, and criminal justice decision making, patterns and predictors of crime, criminal careers and life-course criminality
Jeffery T. Ulmer
inequalities in criminal sentencing at the state and federal levels, racial and ethnic disparity in Pennsylvania’s death penalty, criminal victimization affecting religious congregations
Department Head
Eric P. Baumer
Criminology, Community and Urban Sociology, Law and Social Control, Demography, Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics
Emeritus Faculty
Wayne Osgood
delinquency, problem behaviors during adolescence
Graduate Directors
Thomas A. Loughran
criminology, offender decision-making, public policy