19 faculty and 20 courses in Criminology at University of Maryland, College Park.
- Brian Johnson, Professor & Associate Chair h-index 45
Criminal Punishment, Sentencing, Prosecution, Bail, Race and Ethnicity, Social Contexts, Juvenile Transfer, Statistics CV: CV_9_1_22_Johnson_reduced.doc 172 KB Degrees Degree Type MA Degree Details Pennsylvania State University Degree Type
Notable: “Is the Magic Still There? The Use of the Heckman Two-Step Correction for Selection Bias in Criminology” (2007) · 605 citations
- Robert Brame, Professor h-index 41
Criminological theory, developmental criminology, recidivism, victimization, measurement. CV: cv25.pdf 197.32 KB Course Name Course Title Semester Syllabus CCJS300 Criminological and Criminal Justice Research Methods Spring 2026 Syllabus Wi
Notable: “USING THE CORRECT STATISTICAL TEST FOR THE EQUALITY OF REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS” (1998) · 2,753 citations
- Jean McGloin, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs h-index 37
Generally focus on group processes, including peer influence, co-offending, street gangs, and collective behavior. Jean was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2024, and she served as the (Co) Editor of the Journal of R
Notable: “Resilience among abused and neglected children grown up” (2001) · 432 citations
- Rod K. Brunson, Professor & Chair h-index 33
Concentrated Neighborhood Disadvantage, Police-Community Relations, Youth Violence CV: Rod_Brunson_MARCH_2026_CV_0.pdf 272.58 KB Degrees Degree Type Ph.D. Degree Details Criminal Justice, Area of Concentration: Criminology Course Name Cours
Notable: ““POLICE DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE”: AFRICAN‐AMERICAN YOUNG MEN'S ACCUMULATED POLICE EXPERIENCES*” (2007) · 839 citations
- Min Xie, Professor h-index 18
Criminal Victimization and Victimization Surveys; Race/ethnicity and Immigration; Patterns of Crime Reporting; Quantitative Methods, including Multilevel, Longitudinal, and Spatial Analysis CV: CurriculumVitae_Min Xie_2025.docx 55.35 KB Deg
Notable: “Crime Victims’ Decisions to Call the Police: Past Research and New Directions” (2019) · 167 citations
- Lauren Porter, Associate Professor h-index 18
Health; Corrections; Crime and Place CV:
Notable: “Consequences of Family Member Incarceration” (2013) · 124 citations
- Bianca Bersani, Associate Professor h-index 16
Involve the study of patterns and predictors of offending from adolescence through adulthood. Key themes include the investigation of desistance and persistence in offending, the factors that facilitate and hinder desistance from criminal o
Notable: “Marriage and Desistance from Crime in the Netherlands: Do Gender and Socio-Historical Context Matter?” (2008) · 223 citations
- María B. Vélez, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SOCIAL CONTROL IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF VICTIMIZATION RISK*” (2001) · 224 citations
- Wade Jacobsen, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies h-index 11
- Greg Midgette, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Variation in cannabis potency and prices in a newly legal market: evidence from 30 million cannabis sales in Washington state” (2017) · 365 citations
- Sarah Tahamont, Associate Professor h-index 9
Es on understanding the consequences of criminal justice policy interventions on individual and community outcomes, methodological advances in criminology and criminal justice, and exploring longitudinal patterns of criminal justice
Notable: “A Tale of Two Margins: Exploring the Probabilistic Processes that Generate Prison Visits in the First Two Years of Incarceration” (2017) · 29 citations
- Brooklynn Hitchens, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Urban Gun Violence & Trauma • Street Culture • Women & Crime • Race, Class & Gender Inequality • Hard-to-Reach Populations • Participatory Action Research (PAR) • Critical & Applied Criminology • Qualitative & Mixed Met
Notable: ““Why I Can't Stand Out in Front of My House?”: Street‐Identified Black Youth and Young Adult's Negative Encounters With Police” (2017) · 69 citations
- Demar Lewis, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Public trust is earned: Historical discrimination, carceral violence, and the COVID‐19 pandemic” (2023) · 13 citations
- Britte van Tiem, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Es on the short- and long-term effects of prison policies and practices. She has worked on prison climate and the impact of prison-based programming on post-release employment. She is also interested in the overlap between systems of crime
Notable: “Perceptions of incarcerated people: prison conditions, public health, and justice in the United States” (2024) · 5 citations
- Eric Baumer, Professor
- Peter Reuter, Distinguished University Professor
Ed on the organization of illegal markets and resulted in the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand (MIT Press, 1983), which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding book of the year in criminology and
- Rachel Ellis, Associate Professor
Es on women's experiences of punishment and inequality in the United States. Dr. Ellis has focused on incarceration, reentry, probation, and state narratives behind criminal legal sanctions for women and children. She has also published on
- Robert Stewart, Assistant Professor
Punishment Law and Society Criminal records Collateral consequences CV: C.V.
- Zubin Jelveh, Assistant Professor
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 2026-07-02.