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.

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.

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.

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.