University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Criminal Justice Faculty

	Steven G. Brandl, PhD Specialties: Criminal investigation Police use of force Health and safety issues in policing Police decision making and behavior Police policy Hazards of police work
	Danielle Romain Dagenhardt, PhD Specialties: Courts and sentencing Prosecutorial discretion Domestic violence Sexual assault Gender and racial disparities
	Tina Freiburger, PhD Dean Specialties: Program evaluation Criminal sentencing Gender and racial disparities in the criminal justice system Juvenile justice and decision making in the juvenile court
	Kimberly D. Hassell, PhD Specialties: Police policy Police decision making and behavior Police management Women and policing Police-community relations Race and criminal justice Administration of justice Criminal justice processing
	Rebecca Headley, PhD Specialties: The effect of neighborhood context and local institutions on offending, corrections and parolee outcomes
	Thomas LeBel, PhD Criminal Justice & Criminology Chair Specialties: Prisoner reintegration Desistance from crime Stigma and formerly incarcerated persons Intervention strategies with correctional clients Substance use treatment and services for criminal justice involved individuals Women involved with the criminal justice system Drug courts
	Theodore S. Lentz, PhD Specialties: Geographic criminology Decision-making Crime networks Urban sociology Gun violence

Social Work Faculty

	Lisa Berger, PhD Specialties: Alcohol assessment and alcohol intervention in medical and workplace settings
	Ai Bo, PhD Specialties: Social determinants of health Evidence-based practice for behavioral and mental health problems Adolescent development and substance use prevention Adolescent alcohol use decision making
	Michael Brondino, PhD Specialties: Test development Readability of questionnaire items Intervention improvement Mental health services HIV/STD prevention Alcohol and drug prevention programming
	Colleen Galambos, PhD Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology Specialties: Care transitions and advance care planning Aging in place Health and long term care systems quality improvement Gerontechnology Interprofessional practice
	Jane Hereth, PhD Specialties: The determinants and impacts of social and structural exclusion, gender-based violence, and criminal legal system involvement on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth.
	Colleen Janczewski, PhD, MSW Specialties: Child maltreatment Agency decision-making in public systems Concentrated poverty and cumulative risk Client engagement and autonomy Program evaluation
	Melinda S. Kavanaugh, PhD, LCSW Specialties: Caregiver health literacy Cultural implications of caregiving Youth caregivers/young carers Impact of chronic illness on the family Social work and health care Director, PhD in Social Welfare program
	Yura Lee, PhD Specialties: Reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias among older adults Cognitive decline after late-life transitions including retirement and widowhood Leisure activity participation and cognitive function in later life Intergenerational support: grandchildren as caregivers of dementia patients Health and mental health of older Asian immigrants
	Gwat-Yong Lie, PhD Associate Dean Specialties: Homelessness Child welfare – staff training and development Violence against women and children Multicultural competence
	Steven McMurtry, PhD Specialties: Co-director, Child Welfare Training Program
	Joshua Mersky, PhD Specialties: Adversity, trauma and resilience Prevention and intervention Program evaluation Translational science
	David J. Pate Jr., PhD Social Work Chair Specialties: Poverty Social welfare policy Child support enforcement policy Life-course perspective of black males Violence prevention and young black males
	Susan Rose, PhD Specialties: Director, Training for Adoption Competency program, funded by Jockey International Chair, international studies committee Coordinator, Social Work Department’s adjunct faculty program
	Dimitri Topitzes, PhD Specialties: Long-term effects of child maltreatment Interventions for preventing or treating child maltreatment and early life trauma Evaluation of innovative mindfulness programming for justice populations
	Trina Salm Ward Specialties: Infant sleep practices Infant and family health Racial disparities in maternal and infant health Community-based research Public health social work
	Amy Watson, PhD Specialties: Mental health policy & services Serious mental illness Research methods Crisis intervention Reducing the involvement of law enforcement/criminal legal system