Amy Anderson is an Associate Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology/Criminology from Ohio State University in 1997, M.A. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program (Sociology Department) at Pennsylvania State University (2000), and her Ph.D. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program at Pennsylvania State University in 2003.

Her research interests include time use and deviance, the relationship between family, school, and neighborhoods and delinquency, public perceptions of sex offenders, and quantitative methods.

Candice Batton is an Associate Professor and Director of the School. She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska Lincoln (1991), M.A. in Sociology from Kansas State University (1993), and Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University (1999).

Her primary research interest is historical studies of crime and violence rates in the United States.  She is also interested in gender differences in crime.  The majority of her work utilizes econometric and time series analysis techniques to examine factors associated with 20th century trends in crime and violence rates.  Her work has appeared in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Homicide Studies, and Historical Methods.

Pauline Brennan is an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, in May of 1999.

Her areas of research include court processing, correctional issues, and adult-female offenders. She is author of Women Sentenced to Jail in New York City, published in 2002 by LFB Scholarly Publishing. Dr. Brennan also serves as Director of the London: Study Abroad Program that takes 100+ students to London each year to learn firsthand about crime and justice in England.

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Samantha Clinkinbeard is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Psychology Central College in Pella, Iowa (2002), M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Her primary research interest is in juvenile delinquency though she also has teaching and research interests surrounding research methods, juvenile justice, and the intersection between psychology and the law. She is currently looking at issues of social support and future orienation as they relate to delinquency.

John Crank is Professor. He received his Masters in Sociology in Tucson in 1974 and in Public Administration in Springfield, Illinois, in 1976 and Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 1987.

He has published in the area of organizational culture and structure, focusing on the police and on parole and probation; and in the areas of criminal justice theory and counter-terrorism. He has been active in grants-writing, with two National Institute of Justice grants. He has published 5 books, two of which are in their second edition and received the "Outstanding Book Award" in 2004 from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book, Imagining Justice.

Greg DeLone is an Assistant Professor. He received a Ph.D. in Public Administration in 2002 and M.P.A. in 1996 from UNO; and a B.S. in political science from Florida State University in 1986.

His research interests are policing, the fear of crime, crime in public housing, public policy, and organizational issues. He has been involved in numerous community service and research oriented projects including an evaluation of the Nebraska State Patrol, strategic planning assistance to the Red Cross, and an evaluation of the Minor in Possession Diversion Program for the Health and Safety Council.

Miriam A. DeLone received a PhD. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Her research interests include political economy and social control; race, ethnicity, gender and sentencing; and corrections.

Her teaching interests are minorities and crime, criminology, corrections, law and social control, nature of crime, and administration of justice. She is co-author of The Color of Justice, (Wadsworth Publishing) with colleagues Samuel Walker and Cassia Spohn. She is former editor of The Criminologist, the official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology.

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Chris Eskridge currently serves as Professor of Criminology Criminal Justice and as Executive Director of the American Society of Criminology. He took his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Ohio State University in 1978.

He has authored/edited four books, given more than 200 professional papers/presentation in some two dozen countries, and has more than 60 professional publications. He has also received numerous teaching awards. more>>

Dennis Hoffman is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He teaches two undergraduate courses, Survey of Criminal Justice and Organized Crime. His main area of interest is organized crime in Chicago.

His first book, Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders (So. Ill. Univ. Press, 1993) highlighted the role of urban vigilantes in bringing Al Capone to justice. He is currently writing a sequel, No One is Above the Law: The Trial of Al Capone. This work-in-progress fits in the genre of research on criminal justice and the media. 

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Lorine Hughes is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.S. in Sociology from Oregon State University in 1996, M.A. in Sociology from Washington State University in 1998, and Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University in 2003.  

Her scholarly interests include youth street gangs, criminological theory, quantitative methods, and sex offenders and sex offender legislation.

Susan Jacobs earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

She has published on topics involving sexual assault of doctors and lawyers directed toward their patients and clients, and development of policy to govern issues related to AIDS in correctional facilities. Her most recent publications are two books, Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework (co-authored with Robbin S. Ogle) and Case Studies in Criminal Procedure. She recently lectured in Israel on self defense and domestic violence, and will be a Visiting Professor in Criminal Law in Slovakia in 2007. Susan has been awarded a Canterbury Fellowship and will be teaching at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2009.

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Colleen Kadleck is an Associate Professor and she also serves as Coordinator of the Lincoln Undergraduate program. She received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University (1994), M.S. from the University of Cincinnati (1995), and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati (2001).

Her research interests focus primarily in issues in policing and the use of quantitative methods. Currently her work is focusing on the systematic study of police unions and methodological and statistical issues in the measurement of agreement between raters.

Chris E. Marshall is an Associate Professor. He studied sociology at Bowling Green State University (B.A. in 1971; M.A. in 1975). He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University in 1978.

His teaching/research interests include theory construction focusing on the structural aspects of discursive theory, exploratory data analysis and graphing techniques for multivariate categorical data, general research methodology and statistics, social control, deterrence, and social indicators.

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Robert F. Meier is a Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Sociology.

He is the author or editor of 15 books and over 50 articles in professional journals. His scholarly interests include general processes of deviance and social control with a special interest in crime and crime-control policy. His most recent books include The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis (with Leslie Kennedy and Vincent Sacco, 2001), Criminal Justice and Moral Issues (with Gilbert Geis, 2006), and Sociology of Deviant Behavior, 13th edition (with Marshall B. Clinard, 2008). He is presently involved (with Jessie Krienert) in another book project, Criminology: The Essentials, to be published by Oxford University Press.

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Robbin Ogle is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Chair in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO. She obtained her Masters Degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in Sociology/Criminology in 1988. She received Ph.D.s in Criminology and Women's Studies from Penn State University in 1995.

Her research interests are Criminological Theory, Organizational Theory, Female Criminality, Corrections, and Serial Killing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The Prison Journal, The Criminal Law Journal, and The Journal of Crime & Delinquency. She is author/editor of several books, the most recent is Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework which creates a new theory for explaining battered women who kill and the use of self defense. She is currently editing a new book with Dr. Candice Batton, which will serve as a general text for courses on Serial Homicide.

Lisa L. Sample is an Associate Professor. She received her Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Her research interests include the social, judicial, and political responses to crime. Specifically, she has investigated the effects of race and gender on criminal and juvenile court processing and the effects of geography on juvenile outcomes. She also researches the offending patterns of sex offenders. She currently serves as the project director for the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program and is working on a book entitled, The Social Construction of the Sex Offender.

Jukka Savolainen is an Associate Professor. A native of Finland, he earned his MA in social sciences at the University of Helsinki (1990) and PhD in sociology at State University of New York, Albany (1996). Prior to UNO, Dr. Savolainen has taught at Western Washington University, University of Helsinki, and University of Minnesota. He has also held senior-level research positions at New York City Criminal Justice Agency and Ministry of Justice ( Finland). Vita.

Dr. Savolainen has published mostly in the area of violence with an emphasis on cross-national comparisons. Recent work appears in Criminology, Homicide Studies, European Journal of Criminology, and The International Handbook of Criminology. His current research is focused on life course explanations of criminal behavior and crime prevention.

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Pete Simi is an Associate Professor. He received his B.A. in social science from Washington State University (1995), M.A. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (1999) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (2003).

His research interests focus on juvenile delinquency and gangs, hate crime and hate groups, violence, social movements, social psychology, and qualitative methods. During the past 13 years he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with neo-Nazi groups across the United States. He has published a series of articles that, in part, examine organizational dynamics, criminal activity, and the white power music scene. In 2006, he was awarded a grant from the Department of Justice to study recruitment strategies among white supremacist terror groups. His book manuscript, American Swastika, is forthcoming in 2009 and explains how white supremacists sustain their movement in a highly antagonistic environment. He is currently providing expert witness consultation on several murder cases involving neo-Nazi groups.

Other research projects involve the use of network modeling to analyze the social organization of street gang violence; examining the causal mechanisms that explain the inter-generational transmission of criminality; and analysis of the relationship between adolescent health and delinquency using the Add Health dataset.

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Rebecca Trammell is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology from San Diego State University (1999). She received her M.A. degree in sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2002), and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2007).  

Her research interests include violence, law and society and corrections. She was a researcher for the California Prison Rape Elimination Act and worked with prison reentry programs in Southern California. Her current research focuses on prison violence and Serbian genocide.

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Bill Wakefield is a Professor and Director of Outreach for the School.

His primary teaching and research interests are comparative criminology and criminal justice, corrections, and program evaluation. As the co-author of Criminal Justice in England and the United States, 2nd edition, 2008, and numerous professional publications, he is currently working on two drug court evaluation grants. In addition, from 1978-2009, Dr. Wakefield has been the leader of a study-abroad tour to England each year in which over 2,000 students have participated. He was also selected for the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University for his contributions in the classroom.

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Samuel Walker is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice. He received a Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University in 1973. He has taught at UNO since 1974. Vita

He is the author of 11 books on policing, criminal justice history and policy, and civil liberties. Professor Walker’s current research involves police accountability, focusing primarily on citizen oversight of the police and police Early Warning (EW) systems. The research on citizen oversight is published in Police Accountability. more>>

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Greg Ariza

James Bogner started his career in law enforcement as a police officer, rising from patrol officer to Detective Division Commander, before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent. During his 27 year FBI career, Mr. Bogner served in various capacities from investigator to executive management in field offices and Washington, DC, retiring as Special Agent in Charge of the FBI for Nebraska and Iowa. He then served for four years as the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) first law enforcement official, initiating that anti-terrorism and intelligence sharing program in support of TSA's aviation security mission in Nebraska. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Police Standards Advisory Council of Nebraska and Chairman of the Omaha Chapter of ASIS International, an organization for security professionals.

Mr. Bogner holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, and a Masters in Administration of Justice from Wichita State University.

Michael Butera received his Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNO and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNL. He began teaching as an adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at UNO in 1989, and has also taught on the Lincoln campus for several years.

Mr. Butera is a 24 year veteran of the Omaha Police Department, where he was assigned as the commander of the Criminal Investigations Bureau at the time of his retirement in 2007. His wide range of experience included assignments in the Uniform Patrol Bureau, Administrative Services Bureau, Burglary Unit, Homicide Unit, Sex Assault Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Intelligence Unit, and in the Narcotics and Gang Units.

Brianna Chase

Mark Foxall is the Deputy Director for the Douglas County Department of Corrections. He began his law enforcement career as an Omaha Police Officer and also worked as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Project Impact with the United States Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, a Master's degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, all from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Mike Hanna

Gary Hill has been working with corrections programs since 1964 and has written more than 100 articles and publications. He now specializes in correctional systems from nations in crisis and often works with the United Nations and other international organizations.

David Moore

Steve Russell has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the
District of Nebraska since 1985. He has been involved in both civil and criminal litigation representing the United States. He is currently assigned to white collar prosecutions involving fraud and tax violations. Mr. Russell graduated from Ball State University, Summa Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Economics and History in 1979 and from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1982. He was employed in private practice in Kearney, Nebraska, and as a Deputy County Attorney in Hall County before joining the United States Attorney's Office.

Bennie Shobe

Larry Wayne completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology at the University of California-Fullerton in 1974. He began his career in corrections at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska soon thereafter. Within the Department of Corrections he has served as a Case Manager, Unit Manager, Warden of the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, Warden of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center, Deputy Director for Programs and Community Services, and is currently Interim Deputy Director for the Institutions Division within DCS.

Penny Westfall