Criminal Justice
B.S. Undergraduate Program

M.S. Graduate Program

Forensic Studies
B.S. Undergraduate Program

Faculty

Faculty offices are at:

1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Telephone:(410) 837- 6084
FAX: (410) 837- 6051
Ms. Linda Fair, Administration Assistant

Nijole Benokraitis: nbenokraitis@ubalt.edu
Professor of Sociology, Ph.D. Texas
Racial and ethnic relations, gender roles, marriage and the family, criminology, and social policy and evaluation.

Kathleen J. Block: kblock@ubalt.edu
Director, Criminal Justice Undergraduate Program
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Maryland
Juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, age and crime, criminal courts. Conducted federally funded research and has published in a variety of professional journals, including Journal of Crime and Justice.

Jami Grant: jgrant@ubalt.edu
Director, Forensic Studies Undergraduate Program
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Maryland
Crime mapping, hot spot analysis, gun violence and forensic studies.

Heather L. Pfeifer:jpfeifer@ubalt.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Maryland
Juvenile justice, drug trends and policy, race and crime, and criminological theory.

Jeffrey Ian Ross: jross@ubalt.edu
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Colorado
Policing, political crime, corrections, violent crime, international/comparative perspectives.

Cindy J. Smith: cjsmith@ubalt.edu | website
Director, Criminal Justice Graduate Program
Associate Professor, Ph.D. California, Irvine
Program and policy evaluation; prision work programs, juvenile sex offenders, human trafficking; and comparative research methods.

Debra L. Stanley: dstanley@ubalt.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas
Vicitims assistance expert

Benjamin Wright:bwright@ubalt.edu
Chair, Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice & Social Policy
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Florida State
Law enforcement, courts, law
Recipient of the Henry C. Wellcome Fellowship and author of several publications on law enforcement strategies and personnel issues.