Profile

I joined UCF in 2025 as a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice. Prior to joining UCF, I was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. In the spring of 2025, I became the first graduate of the Ph.D. program in Criminal Justice Policy Studies.

•   Institutional Corrections
• Life-course Criminology
• Quantitative Methods

• Ph.D. Criminal Justice Policy Studies, University of Mississippi
• M.S. Criminal Justice, University of Mississippi
• B.S. Sociology/Criminal Justice, Averett University

My research is centered on correctional behavior, specifically focusing on individuals who spend the majority—or entirety—of their lives incarcerated. I’m interested in how and why criminal behavior persists behind bars, how misconduct evolves over time, and the institutional responses to such behavior. Ultimately, I seek to better understand how correctional environments shape long-term behavioral outcomes and what that means for prison policy and rehabilitation.

• Correctional Misconduct
• Life-course Criminology
• Correctional Organizational Issues
• Community Corrections

CJC3010: Corrections and Penology