Criminology Research Center
Faculty
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Wendy C. Regoeczi received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 2001. She joined Cleveland State University’s Department of Sociology in 2000. Her research interests include homicide, violent crime, domestic violence, and criminal investigation. She is co-author (with Terance Miethe) of Rethinking Homicide: Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations, published by Cambridge University Press.
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James J. Chriss received his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He joined the faculty in 1999 after spending four years at Kansas Newman University where he developed their Criminal Justice Studies major. His main areas of interest are sociological and criminological theory, policing, law, juvenile delinquency, and the criminal justice system. His latest book is Social Control: An Introduction (Polity, 2007). A book on policing is forthcoming and titled Beyond Community Policing: From the Wild West to 9/11 (Paradigm Publishers).
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Dana J. Hubbard received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. She joined the Cleveland State faculty in 2003. Her research interests include women/girls involved in the correctional system. She has conducted evaluation-based research as well as traditional criminological research in the areas of crime and corrections. She also serves as a consultant for the National Institute of Corrections and has written a training curriculum for practioners who work with delinquent girls. She has received several grants and has published articles in such journals as Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, and the Prison Journal.
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Stephanie L. Kent received her PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 2005. She was on the faculty in Sociology at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas from 2005-2007. Her research focuses on the quantitative study of social control at macro levels of analysis. Drawing primarily on insights derived from conflict theories, she has examined the determinants of death sentences, executions, police force size, violence by and against the police, and interracial homicide. Recent articles have appeared in Social Problems, the American Sociological Review, and Criminology. She enjoys teaching Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, and Research Methods.
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Teresa C. LaGrange received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Alberta in 1996, and joined the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University the same year. Her research has focused primarily on contemporary theories of crime and delinquency, and police practices in handling mentally ill offenders. Her articles have been published in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and The Canadian Journal of Sociology.
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| Miyuki Fukushima received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oklahoma in the spring of 2009. She joined Cleveland State University's Department of Sociology and Criminology in the fall of 2009. Her research focuses on testing theories of crime at the micro level, both across gender and across nation, specifically between Japan and the U.S. Using theories of crime, she has examined deviant behaviors among youth, including alcohol and drug use and academic cheating.
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| Ronnie Dunn is an assistant professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University and alumni of the CSU Sociology Department. His research and teaching interests primarily focus on issues affecting minorities and the urban poor, with a particularly emphasis on issues related to race, crime, and the criminal justice system. His research on racial profiling appears in the Urban Studies textbook, “The 21st Century American City: Race, Ethnicity and Multicultural Urban Life,” and in the journal Public Performance & Management Review. This research led to the use of traffic cameras and an increase in the speed limit on 34 city streets in the city of Cleveland in order to reduce racial bias in traffic enforcement. |
Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Criminology Research Center
2121 Euclid Avenue, RT 1721
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Cleveland State University
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Criminology Research Center
2121 Euclid Avenue, RT 1721
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Rhodes Tower, Room 1721
1860 East 22nd Street
Rhodes Tower, Room 1721
1860 East 22nd Street
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