Danny Gascón received his MA and BA in Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino, and earned his PhD in Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests lie at the intersection of urban criminology, law and society, and race and ethnic relations, and is principally concerned with critical... Learn More
Lallen Johnson, PhD, considers himself an interdisciplinary scholar, with research interests at the intersection of urban studies, crime, and place. His most recent research examines neighborhood-level effects of gaming establishments on crime; and, how structural shifts affect municipality-level violent crime hotspots within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. Lallen is a 2010 Graduate Research Fellow of the... Learn More
Ph.D. 2013, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara Dr. Lopez-Aguado’s research interests include Race and Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Youth and Street Cultures, and Urban Ethnography. His work has been published in Ethnography and in Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands. He is currently preparing an article on the institutional production of violence and criminality in carceral facilities, and is developing a... Learn More
Reuben Jonathan Miller studies social life at the intersections of race, punishment and social welfare policy. He is completing a book titled Halfway Home based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated people, their family members, partners and friends. Miller conducts fieldwork in Chicago, Detroit, and New York City, examining... Learn More
Drawing on my training in sociology, demography, and criminology, I study the intergenerational transfer of racial and social inequalities in America with a particular focus upon social systems, organizations, and institutions. Most of my work to date examines the U.S. judicial system’s role in creating and perpetuating inequality. Interaction with the judicial system disproportionately impacts... Learn More
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Assistant Professor at Temple University in the Department of Criminal Justice with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Beasley School of Law. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Ford Foundation Fellowship Postdoctoral Award, the 2015 New Scholar Award (co-winner) awarded by American Society of Criminology’s... Learn More
Assistant Professor Michael L. Walker received his B.A. in economics from the University of California-Riverside where he also completed his Ph.D. in sociology in 2014. Michael’s broad research interests include social control, stratification, and inequality, which he pursues through studies of criminal justice generally, and jails specifically. He plans to continue examining jails as a... Learn More
Valerie L. Wright earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 2009 and joined the Department of Sociology at Cleveland State University in 2012. She has a diverse background in research, policy evaluation, advocacy, and teaching. In addition, she has worked in corrections with both adults and juvenile offenders. Her research interests... Learn More
