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teaching 
experience

The Criminal Justice System. Homicide. Communities & Crime. Research Methods. Statistics. Gun Violence. Domestic Violence.

Law

undergraduate courses

Crime Scene Tape

CRJU

110

Introduction to
Criminal Justice

Responses in American society to the problems of crime. Examines criminal behavior, criminal law, police, courts, and corrections, as well as selected issues in criminal justice.

CRJU

420

Analyzing Homicide
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Relationships between patterns and trends in homicide, and theoretical explanations for why offenders engage in homicide.

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CRJU

430

Communities & Crime
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Relationship between criminality and community characteristics, with particular attention to how variation in community structure, organization, and culture impacts crime.

graduate courses

Police car

CRJU

701

Survey of Criminal Justice

Classical and recent literature in criminal justice. Trends and issues that transcend criminal justice.

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CRJU

812

Advanced Quantitative Analysis

A detailed treatment of the general linear model and logistic regression analysis with applications in criminology and criminal justice.

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Graduate-Level Independent Studies

Methodological Challenges in Studying Rare Events (2021)

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Multi-Level and Longitudinal Modeling (2021)

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Mass Violence (2021)

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Domestic Violence (2020)

indep studies

what students are saying...

Student in Introduction to Criminal Justice (Spring 2017)

"This class solidified a lot of what I already believed and actually gave me a factual basis for what was primarily emotionally based. It did humanize crime for me in a lot of ways. As someone who tends to focus on law and policy, seeing how much more there is to the CJS than that was eye opening."
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