Undergraduate Research

The CRIM faculty are active scholars in their field who are excited to work with students on undergraduate research projects.

The advantages of working on faculty-led research projects are:

• Presenting your findings at international, national, regional, and local discipline specific professional conferences. 
• Co-authoring manuscripts published in discipline specific journals.
• Greater preparedness for graduate studies.
• Further honing your methodological, statistical, critical thinking, and writing skills.

If interested, contact the faculty member whose research interests most closely align with yours.

Faculty Research Interests:

• Dr. Champion: Criminal Psychology and Integral Criminology
• Dr. Edwards: Reentry, Restorative Justice, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Criminal Justice Interventions, Intersection of Work and Crime, and Intersection of Organizational Theory and the Criminal Justice System
• Dr. Kuehn: Juvenile Justice, Community Corrections, and Program Implementation and Evaluation
• Dr. Ridener: Community Corrections, Correctional Rehabilitation, Families and Crime, Criminology, Life-Course Criminology, Early Intervention, and Program Implementation and Evaluation
• Dr. Roth: Burglary, Crime Prevention, Criminological Theory, and Structural Predictors of Property Crime
• Dr. Schanz: Domestic violence, Police & Community Relations, Gender Issues, Comparative Criminal Justice, Testing of Criminological Theories, and Criminal Justice Education