Latina/o/x Criminology scholars

Arriaga Felicia

Assistant Professor
Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Baruch College, CUNY
[email protected]
https://feliciaarriaga.com/

Areas of Expertise
Crimmigration
County law enforcement
Grassroots organizing

Avalos Susana

PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Old Dominion University
[email protected]

Areas of Expertise
Queer Criminology
Qualitative Methods
Gender and Crime
Social Inequality and LGBTQ Populations
Policing & LGBTQ Populations

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Contreras Christopher

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology & Criminology
University of Massachusetts, Boston
[email protected]
https://www.umb.edu/directory/ccontreras/

Areas of Expertise
Communities and Crime
Criminological Theory
Drug Abuse
Drug Markets
Quantitative Methods

Contreras Randol

Associate Professor
Media and Cultural Studies
University of California, Riverside
[email protected]

Areas of Expertise
Ethnography
Qualitative Research
Ethnic and Racial Constructions/Conflicts
Gangs
Drug Markets

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Gonzalez Veronica

Assistant Research Professor
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of South Carolina
[email protected]
https://valenciagonzalezphd.com/

Areas of Expertise
Gender-based Violence (GBV)
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Victimization

Infante Arynn

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Portland State University
[email protected]
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5H0iWA4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Areas of Expertise
Race and Ethnicity
Qualitative Methods
Corrections

Madrigal Andrew

All but Dissertation (ABD)
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
George Mason University
[email protected]
https://cls.gmu.edu/people/amadrig2

Areas of Expertise
Wrongful Convictions
Collateral Consequences of Incarceration

Meyerson Nicholas

Assistant Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/4848/nicholas-scott-meyerson

Areas of Expertise
Firearm violence prevention
Health equity
Involvement with the criminal legal system
Firearm policy

Castillo Isabella

Doctoral Student
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
[email protected]
https://search.asu.edu/profile/4723540

Areas of Expertise
Disability & Justice Contact
Policing
Race and Ethnicity

Clealand Danielle

Associate Professor
Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
University of Texas at Austin
[email protected]
http://danielleclealand.com

Areas of Expertise
Black Politics
Latino Politics
Racial Identities
Racial Inequality

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Gamino Eric

Associate Professor
Criminology & Justice Studies
California State University, Northridge
[email protected]
https://academics.csun.edu/faculty/eric.gamino

Areas of Expertise
Police-Community Relations
Immigration
U.S.-Mexico Border
Racial/Ethnic Relations
Qualitative Research Methods

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García Daniel Fredes

Graduate student
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland
[email protected]

Areas of Expertise
Human rights
Collateral consequences / Punishment
Latin America
Quantitative methods

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Iwama Janice

Associate Professor
Department of Justice, Law & Criminology
American University
[email protected]
https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/iwama.cfm

Areas of Expertise
Bias/Hate Crimes
Policing
Gun Violence
School Violence
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

León K. Sebastian

Associate Professor
Latino and Caribean Studies; Criminal Justice
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
[email protected]
http://www.ksebastianleon.com

Areas of Expertise
State-Corporate Crime
Crimes of the Powerful
Latino Studies

Orosco Carlena

Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics
California State University, Los Angeles
[email protected]
https://www.calstatela.edu/hhs/crim/faculty-carlena-orosco-phd

Areas of Expertise
Policing
Crime Analysis
Police Dispatchers
Policy Evaluation
Mixed Methods

Osuna Amanda

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Tampa
[email protected]

Areas of Expertise
Vulnerability
Victimization
Betrayal
Trust

Pacheco Jahaira

Graduate Student
Criminology, Law and Society
University of California, Irvine
[email protected]

Areas of Expertise
Immigration Law and Policy
Community-Based Research
Barriers to Legalization

Román-Alfaro Andrea

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
[email protected]
https://www.andrearomanalfaro.com/

Areas of Expertise
Sociology of violence
Criminalization and Punishment
Gender, race, and class
Qualitative Methods
Latin America

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Piza Eric

Professor
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
[email protected]
http://ericpiza.net

Areas of Expertise
Geographic Information Systems
Evidence-based policing
Program evaluation
Technology

Sevilla Elvis

Adjunct Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice College of Social Work & Criminal Justice
Florida Atlantic University
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvis-sevilla-phd/

Areas of Expertise
Latino Criminology
Adult Reentry
Immigration
Adult Corrections
Crime Theories

Plakas Christina

Doctoral Student
Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of South Carolina
[email protected]
https://x.com/ChristinaPlakas

Areas of Expertise
Meaningful Access to the Courts
Pretrial Justice
Qualitative Data Collection
Corrections

Peguero Anthony

Foundation Professor

T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics
Arizona State University

Areas of Expertise
Youth violence
Socialization and marginalization
Education
Adaptation of the children immigrants.

Tapia Mike

Associate
Criminal Justice
TX A&M Commerce
[email protected]
https://www.tamuc.edu/people/michael-tapia/

Areas of Expertise
Violence
Organized Crime
Chicanos
Race & Crime
Gangs

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Whiting Serita

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Justice Studies
Prairie View A&M
[email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/serita-whiting-ph-d-b480521aa

Areas of Expertise
Violent Crime
Juvenile Delinquency
Criminological Theory

Egbert Zavala

Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies
University of Texas at El Paso
[email protected]
https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/criminal-justice/people/egbert-zavala.html

Areas of Expertise:
•Family Violence
•Victimology
•Dating Violence
•Intimate Partner Violence

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