Expertise

Research Interests

  • Juvenile justice and delinquency
  • Criminological research and public policy
  • Race, class, and crime
  • Education and crime
  • Resilience
  • Retention rates among college students
  • Criminology/criminological theory
  • History of crime and its treatment
  • Juvenile delinquency
  • Racial minorities, criminality and social justice
  • Race and ethnic relations
Communities
Criminology
Degrees
PhD, University of Alabama, Educational Psychology, 2011
MS, University of Alabama, Criminal Justice, 2004
BA, Tuskegee University, Psychology, 2002