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Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Doctoral Students

 

Image of Tylor BeckEducation:
M.P.A. 2018, Augusta University
M.A. 2017, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice
B.S. 2015, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice

Email:
tebeck@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Veteran incarceration, police handling of emotionally disturbed persons, sentencing reform, rehabilitation and alternative sentencing to incarceration

Image of Philip BerryEducation:
M.A. 2019, Radford University, Criminal Justice
B.S. 2017, Lebanon Valley College, Criminal Justice

Email:
ptberry@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental criminology, crime prevention through environmental design, problem-oriented policing, social disorganization

Image of Qassim BolajiEducation:
LL.M, 2016, University of Houston Law Center
LL.B. 2011, University of Ibadan

Email:
bolajiq@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Mental health and juvenile delinquency, addiction, and the influence of racial perceptions on the criminal justice system

Education:
M.A., 2020, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.A., 2018, University of South Carolina, Psychology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Email:
dnb@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Juvenile justice, policing

Education:
M.A., City University of Hong Kong, Criminology
M.A., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Social Science
B.S., University of Winnipeg, Psychology (Honors)

Email:
ycheung@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Criminal justice and perceptions, gendered crime, and policing

Image of Hao-Chun ChouEducation:
M.A. 2017, Rutgers University, Criminal Justice
M.A. 2011, National Chung Cheng University, Criminal Justice
LL.B. 2006, National Chung Cheng University

Email:
hchou@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Rehabilitation, correctional programming, and punitive attitudes

Image of Kelsey CollinsEducation:
B.A. 2015, Saint Mary's College, Sociology

Email:
kelseymc@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Rehabilitation programs within the criminal justice system, restorative justice, and juvenile delinquency

Education:
B.S. 2019, Georgia Gwinnett College, Criminal Justice

Email:
jdaou@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Corrections, reentry/recidivism

Kaitlen HubbardEducation:
M.S., 2020, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.A., 2018, Concord University, Sociology

Email:
kaitlen@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Death penalty, sentencing, disparities in sentencing

Education:
M.A. 2010, Appalachian State University, Political Science
B.S. 2004, Liberty University, Social Science

Email:
huffmaa2@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Institutional corrections, reentry, comparative and international criminal justice systems, sentencing

Education:
M.S. 2021, University of Alabama Birmingham, Criminal Justice
B.S. 2016, University of Alabama Birmingham, Criminal Justice

Email:
lekendra@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Human trafficking, human/child rights, victim-centered policy-making, criminal behavior, victimology

Albina LaskovtsovEducation:
M.S., 2020, Eastern Kentucky University, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.A., 2017, Morehead State University, Criminology

Email:
albina@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Violence against women, intersectionality, victimization, qualitative research methods, cultural and global criminology

Lucas ManessEducation:
M.S., 2021, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Criminal Justice and Criminology (Graduate Certificate in Crime Analysis)
B.S. 2018, Western Carolina University, Criminal Justice and Political Science

Email:
lmaness@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Serial murder, terrorism, drugs and crime, criminological theory, gender-based violence, policing, courts, and rehabilitation and reintegration

Image of Matthew MoosbruggerEducation:
M.S. 1994, Georgia Tech, Civil engineering
B.S. 1990, The Citadel, Civil engineering

Email:
moosbrum@email.sc.edu

Education:
M.A. 2019, Kyonggi University, Forensic Psychology
B.A. 2017, Sungshin Women's University, Political Science and Diplomacy, and Psychology

Email:
hnoh@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Juvenile delinquency, victimization, women and crime, race and crime, cybercrime, rehabilitation

Nicola PasquireEducation:
B.S. 2020, Northern Michigan University, Criminal Justice

Email:
pasquire@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Female incarceration, reentry barriers and programs, felony disenfranchisement

Christina PlakasEducation:
B.A. 2019, Hamilton College, Sociology

Email:
cplakas@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Correctional programming, reentry programs, juvenile justice

Image of Marion RennerEducation:
M.A. 2016, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.A. 2015, University Paris Descartes, France, Psychology (Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology)

Email:
mrenner@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Mental health and crime, biosocial criminology, theories of criminology, antisocial disorder, self-control, early attachment and crime/social bonds, neuropsychology, homicide/violent crime

Education:
B.A. 2020, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Psychology

Email:
sedlaceh@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Research design and data analysis, juvenile justice, and crime prevention

Education:
M.A. 2020, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.A. 2017, North Carolina State University, Psychology (minor in Religious Studies)

Email:
esuiter@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Mental health and specialty courts

Dywane ThompsonEducation:
M.C.J. 2021, University of Colorado, Criminal Justice
B.A. 2017, Augusta University, Criminal Justice and Sociology

Email:
dywane@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Reentry, policy and programming, deaf studies, religion and crime, spatial criminology, and courts

Education:
M.A. 2020, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice
B.S. 2018, University of South Carolina, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Email:
trowbrij@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Civil asset forfeiture, criminal justice policy

Education:
M.S. 2012, Eastern Kentucky University, Criminal Justice
B.S. 2010, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Criminal Justice

Email:
willinab@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Ethnographic research, cultural criminology, queer criminology, domestic violence, animal cruelty, gender and organized crime

Hadley WellenEducation:
B.S. 2019, Cedar Crest College, Criminal Justice and Mathematics

Email:
mwellen@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Crime and place and quantitative methods

Education:
B.S.C.J. 2019, Texas Christian University, Criminal Justice
B.A. 2019, Texas Christian University, Theatre

Email:
aworrell@email.sc.edu

Research Interests:
Crime and place, research methods, culture, race

 


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