Dr. James Golden – Interim SCJC Director
Professor
Email: jwgolden@ualr.edu
Specialization – Policing, environmental criminology, and quantitative methodology
Dr. Richard “Rick” Lewis – Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
Email: rhlewis@ualr.edu
Specialization – biosocial criminology and quantitative methodology
Dr. Mary Parker
Professor
Email: mlparker@ualr.edu
Specialization – Institutional and community corrections and teaching strategies
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
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)
Dr. Robert “Bob” Lytle
Associate Professor
Email: rdlytle@ualr.edu
Specialization – Institutional and community corrections, criminal justice public policy, program evaluation, and mixed methodology
Dr. Molly Smith
Assistant Professor
Email: mesmith8@ualr.edu
Specialization – Victimization, human trafficking, criminal justice system and mental health
Dr. David “Dave” Tyler
Assistant Professor
Email: dtyler@ualr.edu
Specialization – Policing and quantitative methodology
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
Dr. Selye Lee
Assistant Professor
Email: slee2@ualr.edu
Specialization – Developmental/Life-Course Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, and Perceptions of Police
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
Dr. Misty Ladd
Instructor
Email: mrladd@ualr.edu
Specialization – Forensic psychology, shift work and burnout, security management and investigations, and crime prevention through environmental design
