Steven Beck
Associate Professor
Email: Steve.Beck@uc.edu

Professor Beck earned his Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to teaching at UC, he spent 13 years working for a local police department. The work included patrol, criminal investigation, and then supervision. He has been on the faculty at UC for 16 years and specializes in teaching criminal justice with an emphasis on investigations, family violence, police supervision and management from a systems perspective. He is actively involved with police departments in the region.

Michael Benson
Professor
Email: Michael.Benson@uc.edu
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Professor Benson received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois in 1982. Writing mainly in the areas of white-collar and corporate crime, he has published extensively in leading journals, including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research and Delinquency, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Problems. He received the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency for his co-authored book, Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control, as well as private research foundations. His most recent projects are a book, Crime and the Life Course: An Introduction, and a grant from the Centers for Disease Control to investigate the effects of domestic violence on the development of children. He teaches criminological theory, white-collar crime, and life-course theory.

Sue Bourke
Assistant Professor
Email: Susan.Bourke@uc.edu

Professor Bourke received her B.S. degree from Eastern Kentucky University with a double major in Law Enforcement and Social Work, and an M.S. in Criminal Justice from UC. Prior to joining the faculty, she worked for the Kentucky Cabinet for Juvenile Justice as a juvenile counselor in a Day Treatment Program, was a Juvenile Court Probation Officer, and an Administrator for the Kenton County Juvenile Court. She began teaching as an adjunct instructor in the Criminal Justice Technology Program in 1986, and joined the faculty full-time in January 1996. Her area of expertise is corrections, particularly juvenile justice. She also co-coordinated the First Year Experience Program in University College for 5 years, and is now doing the same for the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services.

Sandra Lee Browning
Associate Professor
Email: Sandra.Browning@uc.edu

Professor Browning received her doctorate in sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She previously was on the faculty of Eastern Kentucky University. She is an American Sociological Association Minority Fellow, as well as an American Society of Criminology Minority Fellow. Within the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, she has served numerous times as chairperson of the Affirmative Action Committee. She is also an active member in the Southern Sociological Society, serving as a member of the Black Caucus and as a member of the Association of Black Sociologists. At the University of Cincinnati, she is also an affiliate of the Department of Women's Studies. She has published on the impact of race on attitudes toward crime and justice. Her current research interests are in the areas of crime and the underclass, the institutionalization of black males, and the role of race in shaping views of the criminal justice system. She teaches law and social control, critical perspectives in criminal justice, women and crime, and teaching practicum.

Mitchell B. Chamlin
Professor
Email: Mitchell.Chamlin@uc.edu
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Professor Chamlin received his PhD in sociology from SUNY-Albany in 1985. He served eight years on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma immediately prior to coming to UC in 1993. There, he co-directed the primary research project that led to Oklahoma's new "Truth in Sentencing" Act. Drawing primarily on insights garnered from rational-choice and conflict theories, he has examined the determinants of police force size, welfare expenditures, arrest rates, and violent acts against the police. He has published approximately 40 articles in journals including Criminology, Justice Quarterly and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. His graduate teaching includes research methods, the nature of crime, and longitudinal data analysis.

Francis T. Cullen
Distinguished Research Professor
Email: Francis.Cullen@uc.edu
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Professor Cullen received his PhD in sociology and education from Columbia University in 1979. He is past editor of Justice Quarterly and Journal of Crime and Justice, and was president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is a fellow of both the ACJS and the American Society of Criminology. He is author of Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory and is co-author of Reaffirming Rehabilitation, Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, Criminology, and Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work. He is co-editor of Contemporary Criminological Theory, Offender Rehabilitation: Effective Correctional Intervention, and Criminological Theory: Past to Present - Essential Readings. He teaches theory and philosophy of corrections, structural theories of crime, early intervention in criminal justice, and criminal justice research practicum.

John E. Eck
Professor
Email: John.Eck@uc.edu
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Professor Eck is a 1994 PhD in criminology from the University of Maryland. He has conducted research into police operations since 1977, and served as the Research Director for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). At PERF, he spearheaded the development of problem-oriented policing throughout the U.S. He was also the Evaluation Coordinator for Law Enforcement at the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and a consultant to the London Metropolitan Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Police Foundation, and other organizations. Dr. Eck has written on criminal investigations, drug markets and control, crime mapping, and crime places. Research interests are the concentration of crime at places and prevention, crime displacement, criminal investigations, and the investigation of police misconduct. He is a member of the National Academy of Science panel assessing police research and policy. He teaches police effectiveness, research methods, and policy analysis.

Robin Engel
Associate Professor
Email: Robin.Engel@uc.edu
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Dr. Engel received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany in 1999. She taught at the Pennsylvania State University for four years prior to joining the UC faculty in 2002. Dr. Engel's research includes theoretical and empirical explorations of police supervision, patrol officers' behavior, and police response toward problem citizens. Her most recent research examines the influence of extralegal factors (e.g., race, ethnicity, age, gender, mental status) on police behavior. Her scholarly work has appeared in Criminology , Justice Quarterly , Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice , and Crime and Delinquency . Dr. Engel is currently directing multiple research projects to collect and analyze traffic stop data for state and local law enforcement agencies. She has also served as an expert witness in criminal and civil racial profiling litigation. In the undergraduate curriculum, she teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice , Introduction to Policing , and Police and the Community . At the graduate level she teaches Criminal Justice Theory , CJ Management & Administration , Explaining Police Decision-Making , and Theory & Philosophy of Law Enforcement .

Bonnie S. Fisher
Professor
Email: Bonnie.Fisher@uc.edu
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Professor Fisher received her PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 1988. She served three years on the faculty of the department of city and regional planning at the Ohio State University before joining the faculty at UC in 1991. Dr. Fisher was the principal investigator for four federally funded research projects involving the victimization of college students, the sexual victimization of college women, violence against college women, and campus-level responses to a report of sexual assault. Her research interests include issues concerning crimes against and within small businesses, fear of crime, crime prevention and security, and the measurement of victimization and attitudes. She has published in Criminology, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Research in Crime and Delinquency, Violence and Victims, and Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Fisher is the co-editor of the Security Journal.

James Frank
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Email: James.Frank@uc.edu
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Professor Frank received his J.D. from Ohio Northern University in 1977 and PhD from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University in 1993. Dr. Frank has been the principal investigator for a number of policing-related research projects that primarily focus on under-standing police behavior at the street-level. Since arriving at the University of Cincinnati, he has also been involved with projects that assess the crime survey of the International Association of Healthcare Safety and Security, a study assessing the organization and effectiveness of Ohio's multijurisdictional drug task forces, and a project examining juror understanding of death penalty instructions. Dr. Frank has published policing articles in Justice Quarterly, Police Quarterly, the American Journal of Police, and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategy and Management. He teaches courses in the areas of policing and legal issues in the criminal justice system.

Edward J. Latessa
Professor and Division Head
Email: Edward.Latessa@uc.edu
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Professor Latessa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Ohio State University , and has been on the faculty at UC since 1980. Dr. Latessa has published over 75 works in the area of criminal justice, corrections, and juvenile justice. He is co-author of seven books including Corrections in the Community, which is now in its third edition, and the 10 th edition of Corrections in America . Professor Latessa has directed over 60 funded research projects including, studies of day reporting centers, juvenile justice programs, drug courts, intensive supervision programs, halfway houses, and drug programs. He and his staff have also assessed over 350 correctional programs throughout the United States. Dr. Latessa is a consultant with the National Institute of Corrections, and he has provided assistance and workshops in over forty states. Dr. Latessa served as President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1989-90). He has also received several awards including; the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology (2004), the Simon Dinitz Criminal Justice Research Award from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2002), the Margaret Mead Award for dedicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement by the International Community Corrections Association (2001), the Peter P. Lejins Award for Research from the American Correctional Association (1999); ACJS Fellow Award (1998); ACJS Founders Award (1992); and the Simon Dinitz award by the Ohio Community Corrections Organization. Professor Latessa teaches corrections in the community.

Paula Smith
Assistant Professor
Email: Paula.Smith@uc.edu
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Paula Smith undertook her doctoral work in at the University of New Brunswick. She was previously a Research Associate with the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She has also been involved in the development and delivery of treatment programs to federal parolees with the Correctional Service of Canada. Her research interests include meta-analysis, the assessment of offender treatment and deterrence programs, the development of actuarial assessments for clinicians and managers in prisons and community corrections, the effects of prison life, treatment responsivity, and the transfer of knowledge to practitioners and policy makers. She has co-authored several articles, book chapters, and conference presentations on the above topics. She teaches meta analysis and the psychology of criminal behavior.

Lawrence F. Travis III
Professor
Email: Lawrence.Travis@uc.edu
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Professor Travis is the Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati. His PhD in criminal justice is from SUNY-Albany, 1982. He served as research director for the Oregon State Board of Parole and as a research analyst for the National Parole Institutes. He is co-author of Changes in Sentencing and Parole Decision Making: 1976-1978 and Policing in America: A Balance of Forces. He has edited both Corrections: An Issues Approach and Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections: A Reader. He co-edited Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, and contributes to criminal justice journals. His research interests lie in policing, criminal justice policy reform, sentencing, and corrections. He teaches the pro-seminar on the administration of criminal justice, theory and philosophy of law enforcement, and the seminar in criminal justice theory.

Patricia Van Voorhis
Professor
Email: Pat.VanVoorhis@uc.edu
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Professor Van Voorhis is a 1983 PhD in criminal justice from SUNY-Albany. She served on the faculty of the Department of Criminology at Indiana State University prior to assuming her current position at UC. She is a past deputy editor of Justice Quarterly, a past president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, and currently serves as co-founder and Vice President for the Division of Sentencing and Corrections for the American Society of Criminology. She has published in leading criminal justice journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. She is the author of Psychological Classification of the Adult, Male, Prison Inmate, and co-author of Correctional Rehabilitation and Counseling. She has directed several state and federally-funded research projects pertaining to prison classification, gender-responsive classification and correctional treatment in both community and institutional settings. She teaches individual theories of crime, applied research, seminar in correction rehabilitation, and women's studies.

Janis Walter
Associate Professor
Email: Janis.Walter@uc.edu

Janis Walter is an associate professor of Legal Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a law degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Kentucky, Ohio and the US District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio and the Eastern District of Kentucky. Professor Walter worked for several years at the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy in the Public Defender Division before beginning a private practice. Her emphasis in private practice was civil litigation and private adoptions. She was appointed program coordinator of the paralegal programs in 1987 and obtained approval of the program by the American Bar Association in 1989. As a result, the ABA has sent her as part of several site teams to evaluate other paralegal programs seeking approval. Professor Walter is also an active member of the American Association for Paralegal Educators where she has developed model syllabi and served as editor of the Paralegal Educator. She has also presented at many different forums on topics ranging from teaching tips to handling adoptions. Her first book, The Ohio Courts, is scheduled for publication in 2004.

Pamela Wilcox
Associate Professor
Email: Pamela.Wilcox@uc.edu
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Pamela Wilcox received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Duke University in 1994. She was on the faculty in Sociology at University of Kentucky from 1994-2004. Her research focuses on multilevel crime control, with special interest in integrating components of routine activities theory and social disorganization theory in order to understand crime and victimization risk within school and community contexts. She recently co-authored Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory. Recent articles have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice, Violence and Victims, and Journal of School Violence. She serves as co-investigator on the Rural Substance abuse and Violence Project, a four-year longitudinal study of trajectories of drug use and school-based offending/victimization among a panel of Kentucky youth. She is also co-investigator on a cross-sectional study of women’s experiences with sexual, physical and stalking victimization at the U. of Kentucky.

John D. Wooldredge
Professor
Email: John.Wooldredge@uc.edu
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Professor Wooldredge is a 1986 PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois . His research and publications focus on issues related to sentencing, institutional corrections, and research methods. He is currently involved in research on sentencing disparities based on a defendant's neighborhood of residence (in Ohio ), sex-based disparities in sentencing, and the correlates/causes of inmate crime and victimization in U.S. prisons. P ublications have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Law and Society Review , Criminology , Crime and Delinquency , and Journal of Criminal Justice . H e teaches institutional corrections, the required graduate sequence in statistics, advanced data analysis, and a series of electives focusing on specific issues/techniques in research methods and data analysis.

John Paul Wright
Associate Professor
Email: John.Wright@uc.edu
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Professor Wright received his doctorate in 1996 from the Criminal Justice program at the University of Cincinnati. Afterwards, he served five years on the faculty at East Tennessee State University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. He has published in leading criminal justice journals on topics that include life-course development of criminal offending, labor-market participation and crime, the impact of social support on offending, effective early intervention, and correctional policy. Also, he is co-editor of Crimes of Privilege, a reader on white-collar crime, and he is completing a book on the development of serious offending over the life-course.
Dr. Wright is a developmental criminologist whose work integrates findings from a number of disciplines, including human behavioral genetics, psychology, and biology. He is the cofounder of the Crime Adaptation Network, which includes a group of scholars from around the world who apply dynamic systems theory to crime and offending. He currently teaches life-course criminology and biosocial criminology at the undergraduate level and life-course criminology and juvenile justice at the graduate level.

Roger Wright
Professor
Email:Roger.Wright@uc.edu

Roger Wright earned his Juris Doctorate from Chase College of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Memphis State University. He has also attended Oxford University in England. Prior to coming to UC in 1984, he was a law partner with Walter and Wright. He has also served as a police officer in Memphis, Tennessee and has additional experience in corrections. Professor Wright is primarily responsible for legal courses such as Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He also teaches Police Community Relations and Managing Conflict and Assaultive Behavior. He was provided training and promotional exams for many local law enforcement agencies and was recently awarded the University College Teaching Award. He also coaches high school tennis, practices taekwondo and plays guitar like a madman.