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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Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue
Rhodes Tower 1721
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
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