37 faculty and 50 courses in Criminal Justice at University at Albany (SUNY).
- Justin Pickett, Professor h-index 44
Public Opinion, Survey Research Methods, Police-Community Relations, Theories of Punishment School of Criminal Justice Home About Us People Staff Faculty PhD Student Profiles Degree Programs Research Student & Faculty Resources facebook
- David McDowall, Professor Emeritus h-index 38
The social distribution of crime and victimization; juvenile justice and firearm violence policies; historical patterns in criminal offending and the time series properties of crime rate trends. Professor McDowall’s scholarship focuse
- Greg Pogarsky, Professor h-index 31
Es on offender decision-making, deterrence, and exploring the applicability of insights from Behavioral economic and psychological research to criminal behavior. He is currently working on several projects aimed at demonstrating predictable
- Robert E. Worden, Professor h-index 27
Professor Worden’s research interests include: police behavior and police misconduct; bureaucratic and external mechanisms of control of police; the effects of police strategies, programs, and practices; and public attitudes toward police.
- John McCluskey, Senior Executive Director and Professor h-index 22
- Matt Vogel, Associate Professor h-index 21
- Matthew C. Ingram, Associate Professor h-index 15
Public Law; Latin America; Research Methods Personal Webpage Matthew C. Ingram's research examines justice sector reforms, judicial behavior, and violence in Latin America. Holding a law degree (2006) and a PhD in political science (2009
- Alissa Pollitz Worden, Associate Director; Associate Professor h-index 10
Dr. Worden’ current work examines the implementation of court reform policies, and in particular the variation in implementation strategies across demographically varied settings. She is investigating the capacity of rural communities
- Mary Ellen Stitt, Assistant Professor h-index 4
- Byunggu Kang, Adjunct Faculty h-index 4
- Jason P. Robey, Assistant Professor h-index 3
- Andrea Kordzek, Lecturer II and Undergraduate Program Director
- Andrew Palladino, Adjunct Faculty
- Bill Andrews, Adjunct Faculty
- Camela Hughes, Lecturer and Director, Cold Case Analysis Center
- Charles Lanier, Lecturer
Death penalty, corrections/reentry, the contributions of former prisoners, and terrorism. He is co-editor/co-author of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal
- Colin Loftin, Professor Emeritus
Violence, Methodology and Statistics, Structural Factors, Measurement School of Criminal Justice Home About Us People Staff Faculty PhD Student Profiles Degree Programs Research Student & Faculty Resources facebook twitter instagram you
- Dana Peterson, Professor
Youths’ street gang, violence, and victimization involvement; Gang and delinquency prevention and intervention; Juvenile justice and Juvenile treatment; Evaluation research; Roles and effects of intersectional identities in interactio
- David Hureau, Associate Professor; Center for Policy Research Director
Violent Crime & Social Inequality, Ethnography & Qualitative Methods, Criminal Justice Policy, Punishment & Incarceration, Policing, Urban Sociology School of Criminal Justice Home About Us People Staff Faculty PhD Student Profi
- Deb Privott, Part-Time Lecturer
- Deborah J. Chard-Wierschem, Adjunct Faculty
- Dennis DiBari, Adjunct Faculty
- Diana L. Falco, Lecturer and Online Program Coordinator
Public opinion and punitiveness capital punishment police-community relationships program evaluations survey methodologies criminal justice education Publications Harmon, T., Taylor, D., Schoepflin, T., Henning, C. & Falco, D. (2024). D
- Frankie Bailey, O'Leary Professor
Es on dress and appearance. Her books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters Crime and Detective Fiction (1991), nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 1992 Edgar Award for Criticism and Biography. With Steven Chermak, she co-e
- Graeme Newman, Professor Emeritus
- James Acker, O'Leary Professor
James Acker's interests include the integration of social science into law, and legal doctrine relating to criminal procedure, criminal law, juvenile justice, miscarriages of justice, and capital punishment. He has authored and co-edited se
- Jingyi Fei, Adjunct Faculty
- Leo Moscatelli, Adjunct Faculty
- Luyi Jian, Assistant Professor
Positive Youth Justice; Interventions and Services for Justice-Involved Youth; Policy and Program Evaluation in Legal Systems; Computational Social Science School of Criminal Justice Home About Us People Staff Faculty PhD Stud
- Matt Pate, Adjunct Faculty
- Morgan Madison, Adjunct Faculty
- Rich Bader, Adjunct Faculty
- Ryang Hui Kim, Adjunct Faculty
- Stephen Hogan, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Terence P. Thornberry, Professor Emeritus
Professor Thornberry's research interests focus on understanding the development of delinquency and crime over the life course, the impact of gang membership on human development, the causes and consequences of child maltreatment, and the i
- Theodore Wilson II, Associate Professor
Decision making (offenders, defendants, and courtroom actors) and quantitative methods. His current research focuses on applying concepts from behavioral economics and offender decision making to help explain defendant decision maki
- Timbre Wulf, Lecturer
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.