- Co-offending & Peer Influences
- Communities & Crime
- Developmental & Life-Course Criminology
- Offender and Victim Decision-Making
Our faculty members are engaged in expanding and testing established criminological theories, offering new theoretical perspectives, and using multidisciplinary approaches to study theoretically-relevant issues that cut across various topics in the field. These include a focus on peer influence and co-offending, communities and crime, developmental and life-course perspectives, and research related to offender and victim decision-making.
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