Sociology & Criminology Faculty

Criminology; Juvenile Delinquency; Race, Class, and Crime; Intro to Crime Mapping; Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Social Research Methods, Sociological Theory.

My main areas of research are in police-involved homicide, spatial econometrics, group-threat theory, and race and crime. My dissertation focused on how group-threat influences police-involved homicide across counties in the United States. My work will be extended in the future to consider other forms of social control, other racial and ethnic groups, and further applications of spatial econometrics to issues related to race, crime, and social control.

PhD, University at Albany State University of New York