Core Faculty
Our faculty hold editorial positions in top journals, leadership positions in our scholarly societies, are winners of myriad national and international awards for their scholarly contributions to the field, and have extensive experience with obtaining funding from top agencies. The diversity of our faculty specializations spanning Psychology, Law, Criminology, and Social Work creates a truly interdisciplinary environment to investigate the intersection of Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
Andrea Arndorfer
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Eyewitness lineup identification and procedures; interrogation and confessions; investigative interviewing; experiences and consequences of wrongful conviction.
José Ashford
Professor
School of Social Work
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Current Research: Sentencing juvenile homicide offenders, mitigation of punishment, and predictive sentencing.
Brian Bornstein
Professor
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Current Research: Jury decision making, eyewitness testimony, history of psychology and law.
Linda Demaine
Professor
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
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Current Research: Deceptive advertising; undue influence; evolutionary theory of law; celebrity entertainers' participation in public policy.
Melanie Fessinger
Assistant Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research:legal decision making, coercion, waivers of constitutional rights (i.e., guilty pleas, Miranda waivers), and social influence in legal settings (i.e., negotiations, interrogations, collection of evidence)
Adam Fine
Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Current Research: Juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice; how youth develop perceptions of law enforcement, the law, and the justice system; how experiences with the juvenile justice system affect youth outcomes and disparities.
Hank Fradella
Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Current Research: Criminal defenses of excuse; judicial use of social science; mental health in correctional populations; the legal regulation of sex, gender, and sexuality.
Max Guyll
Associate Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Police interrogation, false confession, suspect decision making under stress, human factors in forensic examination, forensic laboratory procedures, forensic technique validity.
Alissa Knowles
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Juvenile delinquency and antisocial behavior, individual-level predictors of delinquency (future expectations, maturity); effect of juvenile justice system involvement on adolescent outcomes.
Stephanie Madon
Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Social influence processes, psychological biases, police interrogation; false confessions; human factors in forensic science.
Karey O'Hara
Assistant Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Family law, high-conflict divorce, parenting time decisions, child mental health, juvenile justice, intervention science.
Dustin Pardini
Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Current Research: Biopsychosocial factors underlying the development of criminal behavior and psychopathic personality; evaluating the impact of early psychosocial interventions.
Michael Saks
Regents' Professor
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
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Current Research: The law’s management and use of empirical evidence in decision-making; advancing patient safety (other than through malpractice litigation); law and psychology of fraud and corruption.
Cortney Simmons
Assistant Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
Current Research: Development and biopsychosocial correlates of antisocial behavior and psychopathology (e.g., conduct disorder, psychopathic traits); developmental and mental health consequences of legal system involvement.
Laura Smalarz
Associate Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
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Current Research: Experimental research on social and cognitive factors that influence the collection and evaluation of evidence in the legal system, with a particular focus on eyewitness-identification evidence.
Stacia Stolzenberg
Associate Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Current Research: How children’s reports of maltreatment are disclosed, investigated, and prosecuted; how developmental considerations may hinder or facilitate children’s productive involvement in investigations.
Rick Trinkner
Associate Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Current Research: Why people follow rules and defer to authority, particularly in the legal context; fairness, legitimacy, and compliance/cooperation.