Each faculty member is listed below, and a brief description of public service areas, research interest and orientation is provided. This information should be used only as a general guide for suggesting people you might want to talk with about policy papers or theses. If your area of interest is not mentioned below, you should check further, for there is probably someone on the faculty who would be helpful. Also faculty have diverse interests, so some will be omitted from a brief listing such as this one.

Timothy S. Bynum: Current research includes the exclusionary rule and good faith exceptions to the exclusionary rule; community alternatives to incarceration; and narcotics impact assessment. Other ongoing research is on juvenile diversion, victimization, and fear of crime. General interests include decision making and public policy evaluation in police, court, and correctional programs. Has several data sets for most of the above areas; interested students should meet with Bynum to learn about specific data sets. Interest in evaluation design, research methods, and statistics. E-mail at: bynum@msu.edu

David L. Carter: Research interests include police administration and behavior. Specific current interests include police education, international crime and justice, violent crime, community policing, law enforcement intelligence operations, and computer crime. Email to: carterd@msu.edu

Steve Chermak: Research interests include the presentation of crime in the news media, terrorism, evaluating criminal justice interventions, and criminal justice administration theory. Email to: chermak@msu.edu

Charles J. Corley: Currently pursuing research in the areas of substance abuse, marital disruption, delinquency and race/ethnicity and crime. General interests include evaluative policy research, demography, and research methodology. Email to: corley@msu.edu

Christina R. DeJong: Research interests include quantitative methods in criminal justice and criminology, recidivism, and the effects of sanctions on recidivism. Research also includes a major focus on gender and race discrimination across all areas of the criminal justice system including issues surrounding capital punishment. Current research focuses on gender differences in attitude and behavior among police officers, structural effects on juvenile court processing, and assessing the validity of drug test results in samples of arrestees. Email to: dejongc@msu.edu

Steven B. Dow: Current research activities are focused on the study of various aspects of forgery law, an analysis of the interstate commerce power and federal criminal jurisdiction (including the Violence Against Women Act), an historical study of judicial autonomy in eighteenth-century England, a study of waiver of right to counsel in juvenile cases, a critique of evolutionary theories in law and economics, and civil liability for criminal acts of employees. Research in the future will include a study of the rise of the office of public prosecutor, and further study of the links between criminal and civil law. Email to: stevedow@msu.edu

David R. Foran: Research encompasses individual and species identification using both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, novel methods of DNA isolation from forensic and ancient tissue samples and stains, and genetic marker development and validation. Email to: foran@msu.edu

Carole Gibbs: Her most recent research involves studying the relationship between corporate citizenship, sanctions, and environmental performance. Other research interests include criminological theory, corporate crime, gender/race/class and crime, and environmental justice. Email to: gibbsca1@msu.edu

Homer C. Hawkins: Several areas of interest include juvenile delinquency and corrections. Current research has focused on police use of deadly force, use of drugs by juveniles and its relationship to violent crime. Has data on the use of deadly force by police in Detroit and the relationship of use to violence in urban Michigan. Police officer burnout is also a research interest. Email to: homer.hawkins@ssc.msu.edu

Vincent J. Hoffman: General areas of interest include adolescent development, the family as affecting youth deviance and its handling in the formal control system (court, school, etc.), juvenile and adult corrections, and cross cultural criminology. Current research focuses on youth awareness of values as related to delinquency; youth needs inventory in cross-cultural perspective (Japan, Korea, U.S., Ireland); developmental needs of adolescence and their relationships to youth deviance; attachment/separation and youth deviance. Data sets include parent education and delinquency prevention, parent child relationships and youth behavior (cross-cultural). Email to: hoffmanv@msu.edu

John K. Hudzik: Current research is JERITT with recent projects on comparative fiscal and budget management (UK and Australia), court administration and management, criminal justice personnel/administrative issues. Has data on Michigan court fiscal characteristics, court administrators and judges (job task analysis), criminal justice manpower planning nationwide (survey of state plans). Ties to courts and law enforcement agencies. Email to: hudzik@msu.edu

Christopher D. Maxwell: General research interests include the social control and criminal justice processing of intimate violence, the efficacy of aggression and delinquency prevention programs, and the impact of social and ecological contexts on criminal justice decision making. Current research grants include Michigan's Sexual Assault Surveillance System, an Evaluation of Marquette County's (Michigan) Community Collaborative Approach to Preventing and Reducing Intimate Partner Violence, and Michigan Sentencing Project. Other research projects include several experiments that are testing different criminal justice mandated treatment programs for spouse abusers; a reanalysis of the six experiments that collectively tested for the deterrent effect of arrest on spouse abusers; an evaluation of a delinquency prevention program that focuses on families and children of incarcerated adults; and, a study of the impact of various ecological contexts on individual level judicial decision making. Email to: cmaxwell@msu.edu

Sheila Royo Maxwell: Currently pursuing research on policies regarding illicit drug use, drug treatment alternatives to prison, and court processes and decision-making. General areas of interest include cross-cultural patterns of delinquency and victimization, health issues in correctional institutions, women in correctional institutions, attitudes toward criminal sanctions, and methodological and statistical approaches to studying crime. Email to: maxwel22@pilot.msu.edu

Edmund F. McGarrell: Research interests focus on communities and crime. Current research includes an experiment on the use of restorative justice conferences as an alternative to juvenile court, strategic problem solving to reduce violent crime, inmate re-entry, and police-community interaction. Also interested in criminal justice evaluation and in working with criminal justice agencies to build and enhance evaluation capacity. Email to: mcgarrel@msu.edu

Merry A. Morash: General areas of interest include causes of delinquency, operations of the juvenile justice system, and women in the criminal justice system (victims, employees, offenders). Ongoing research on women in policing, causes of wife battering and programs for female offenders. Research on wife abuse includes international focus. Interest in both quantitative research methods and statistics and qualitative approaches. Email to: morashm@msu.edu

Mahesh K. Nalla: Research interests include corporate deviance, private security, comparative criminal justice, and issues pertaining to non-traditional policing. Current research projects include, public perceptions of private security, the relationship between private security and public law enforcement, and security in the emerging markets. Email to: nalla@msu.edu

Jesenia Pizarro: Her research focuses on the social ecology of homicide and corrections policy. Her general areas of interest include the social ecology of violent crime, homicide victimization and perpetration, corrections policy, international and transnational crime, comparative criminal justice systems, and criminological theory. Email to: pizarros@msu.edu

Christopher E. Smith: Within the broad areas of law and courts, recent and current projects include such topics as prisoners' rights, constitutional criminal procedure, federal courts, court reform, judicial policy making, and post-conviction legal processes. Email to: smithc28@msu.edu

William Terrill: Research interests lie primarily in the area of policing, with a concentration on police use of force. He has worked on a variety of research projects involving numerous police agencies throughout the country. Email to: terrillw@msu.edu

Ruth Waddell: Research interests include impurity profiling in illicit synthetic drug seizures with the application of chemometric procedures for classification. Email to: waddel10@msu.edu

Carol Zimmermann: Research interests include juvenile justice, risk analysis, and public policies and organizations. Email to: zimme136@msu.edu