Research interests: Power dynamics in courts; violence against women, including sexual assault and domestic battery; social policies on family violence.

Research interests:Gangs and Violence in the city; street culture.

Research interests: law and society research, family and domestic violence law, lower courts, the globalization of the legal profession, Caribbean history and anthropology

Research interests: International human rights and international criminal law; criminal law and procedure; terrorism; legal history of war crimes and the Nazi Holocaust.

Research interests:  effects of race/ethnicity on violent crime,victimization and criminal justice system decision-making; racial disparity in court outcomes; disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system; homicide studies.

Research interests: Language, law, and society; multimodal forms of communication in legal settings; qualitative evaluation; discourse of violence.

Research interests: Violence against Women, Women in prison, Race/ethnicity and crime, feminist theory and methods.

Research interests: Evaluation methods; crime prevention theory and research; police organizations and community policing; drugs and crime.

Research interests: youth, culture, and the law; gender, sexuality, and the state; urban qualitative research methodology

Research Interests: Rape prevention; teen-dating violence prevention; children’s exposure to violence; trauma; interdisciplinary academic/community partnerships; program evaluation.

Research interests: Quantitative research methods; community and neighborhood processes involved in child development; developmental processes involved in youth violence; racial inequality and crime.

Research interests: Criminal victimization, rape prevention; stress and coping theory; post-traumatic stress disorder; social reactions to victims, drinking, substance abuse, survey research.