Akhila Ananth
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
E-mail: [email protected]
- Race, gender, and the design of juvenile courts and detention facilities
- Qualitative research methods to investigate how race is codified in designs of children’s spaces in the law
- Community organizations serving youth of color in Los Angeles
Carly Dierkhising
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
E-mail: [email protected]
- Trauma and child traumatic stress
- Trauma among juvenile justice-involved youth
- Crossover youth
- Youth gangs
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Jane Gauthier
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Washington State University
E-mail: [email protected]
- Hate crimes and groups
- Spatial patterns of crime
- Hate crime victimization among LGBTQ people and immigrants in Los Angeles
- Racial and gender minority experiences with police
Lisa Graziano
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
E-mail: [email protected]
- Police-community relations, particularly community policing
- Role of race-ethnicity in shaping public perceptions of police
- Impact of media coverage on perceptions of police
- Evolution of both LAPD relations with communities of colors and diversity within the LAPD itself
Denise Herz
Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park
E-mail: [email protected]
- Juvenile justice
- Youths at-risk for delinquency
- Characteristics and needs of crossover youth
- Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
- City of Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development Office
Donald Johnson
Emeritus Professor of Criminalistics; M.Sc., UCLA
E-mail: [email protected]
- Forensic science
- Forensic biology and pathology
- Crime scene investigation and reconstruction
- Forensic science education, in-service training, and research.
- New technologies and novel approaches to advance forensic science
- Non-specific bloodstain patterns by use of microRNA profiling
Khadija Monk
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
E-mail: [email protected]
- Crime prevention
- Environmental criminology
- Police-community relationships
- Community violence prevention
- Sexual assault victimization
- Crime and policy analysis
- Disparities in the criminal justice system
Katherine A. Roberts
Professor; Ph.D., John Jay College, New York
E-mail: [email protected]
- M.S. program in criminalistics
- Trace evidence
- Center for Interdisciplinary Forensic Science Research
- Detection of adulterants in morphine sulfate solutions, microspectroscopy to differentiate printing inks and bullet damage
Bill Sanders
Professor; Ph.D., University of London
E-mail: [email protected]
- Ethnographic investigations on young people and crime in Los Angeles, New York and London
- Gangs, drugs, and public health aspects about criminal justice topics
- Processes of desistance among serious juvenile and adult offenders
- How youth from high-risk neighborhoods avoid gangs and drugs
Katharine Tellis
Interim Director and Associate Professor; MSW, Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha
E-mail: [email protected]
- Violence prevention and criminal justice policy and practice
- Suspect/victim relationship in sexual assault cases
- How attrition occurs within the criminal justice system
- Crime rates and offender recidivism in response to Prison Realignment in California is funded by the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association
Jay Vargas
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Utah
E-mail: [email protected]
- Forensic chemical analysis
- Toxicology
- Pharmacology
- New analytical techniques for controlled substance analysis
- Development of animal models for use in determining the adverse effect profile of drugs and toxins
- Central nervous system tissue in response to drug exposure and in neurological disorders