Criminal Justice Faculty

James GoldenDr. James Golden – Interim SCJC Director
Professor
Email: jwgolden@ualr.edu

Specialization – Policing, environmental criminology, and quantitative methodology

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Dr. Richard “Rick” Lewis – Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
Email: rhlewis@ualr.edu

Specialization – biosocial criminology and quantitative methodology

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Dr. Mary Parker
Professor
Email: mlparker@ualr.edu

Specialization – Institutional and community corrections and teaching strategies

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Dr. David Montague
Professor
Email: drmontague@ualr.edu

Specialization – Policy & administration, prison education, and JFK Assassination

Dr. Montague is currently the Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs-Student Success at UA Little Rock

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Dr. Tusty ten Bensel
Professor
Email: ixzohra@ualr.edu

Specialization – Violence and victimization, crimes against special populations, program evaluation, and mixed methodology

Dr. ten Bensel is currently an Associate Dean in the College of Business, Health, and Human Services (CBHHS)

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Robert Lytle

Dr. Robert “Bob” Lytle
Associate Professor
Email: rdlytle@ualr.edu

Specialization – Institutional and community corrections, criminal justice public policy, program evaluation, and mixed methodology

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Dr. Molly Smith
Assistant Professor
Email: mesmith8@ualr.edu

Specialization – Victimization, human trafficking, criminal justice system and mental health

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Dr. David “Dave” Tyler
Assistant Professor
Email: dtyler@ualr.edu

Specialization – Policing and quantitative methodology

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Dr. Suzanne Coble
Assistant Professor
Email: scoble@ualr.edu

Specialization – Sexual violence; police, prosecutor, and jury decision-making; social structure, inequality, and disparity; race, gender, and criminal justice; feminist and queer criminologies; qualitative methods

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Dr. Selye Lee
Assistant Professor
Email: slee2@ualr.edu

Specialization – Developmental/Life-Course Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, and Perceptions of Police

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Arsala Khan (2020)Dr. Arsala Khan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: aakhan1@ualr.edu

Specialization – Muslim Identities, Black Criminology, Punitiveness and Public Attitude

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Instructors

Dr. Kilby Raptopoulos
Advanced Instructor
Email: vkerwin@ualr.edu

Specialization – Violence and victimization, sex offenders, the media’s portrayal of victims and offenders, empathy as it intersects with criminal justice, and online pedagogy

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Dr. Misty LaddDr. Misty Ladd
Instructor
Email: mrladd@ualr.edu

Specialization – Forensic psychology, shift work and burnout, security management and investigations, and crime prevention through environmental design

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Brian Weaks (2021)Brian Weaks
Instructor
Email: bweaks@ualr.edu

Specialization – TBA

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