John Major Eason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. In his prior position at the School Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University he recieved the 2012 Rural Sociological Society Young Scholar Award. He also served as the Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Sociology at... Learn More
Generally, María investigates how stratification along racial/ethnic, political, and economic lines shapes and is shaped by the uneven patterning of crime and justice outcomes. One major theme of María’s work is to investigate the influence of political conditions on crime patterns across neighborhoods. For instance, a recent project with Christopher Lyons (UNM) and Wayne Santoro... Learn More
Jorge M. Chavez is a former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR) and former Presidential Fellow at the University of Albany. His primary areas of research focus on life course perspectives on child maltreatment and adult outcomes, race/ethnicity differences in the comorbidity of mental health problems and violent behavior, and understanding... Learn More
David Hernández’s research focuses on immigration enforcement, in particular, the U.S. detention regime. He is completing a book manuscript on this institution tentatively entitled “Undue Process: Immigrant Detention and Lesser Citizenship.” The book examines the racial genealogy of immigrant detention in the United States, traces the long-term consolidation of detention and deportation powers, and situates... Learn More
Andrea Leverentz’s research centers on the impact of crime and incarceration on individuals and communities. Her book, The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance (Rutgers University Press 2014) looks at how women talk about and manage competing messages about what it means to return to their communities post-incarceration, and how... Learn More
Amy Poland, Ph.D., is the associate dean for online learning and an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at St. Joseph’s College. She began her career in criminal justice working with juvenile offenders in a residential treatment facility in Sioux City, Iowa while she finished her Masters in Public Administration. She completed a... Learn More
My research focus is interdisciplinary, rooted in Human Development, Cross-Cultural Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, and Public Health. My scholarship focuses on the importance of individual characteristics and contextual factors in the etiology of risk-taking behaviors and deviance in youth, with a particular focus on ethnic minority and “at-risk” populations. My scholarship is also based on... Learn More
Claudio Vera Sanchez received his PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008. His research interests are centered on how Latino and African American juveniles, from underprivileged neighborhoods, are criminalized by both nurturing (schools) and non-nurturing (police) institutions. His research interests also involve channeling at-risk Latino and African American youth,... Learn More
