Faculty

Our faculty have distinguished themselves in many ways.  as can be seen by clicking on the links to their webpages below. They are or have been  members of editorial boards such as Law and Human Behavior, Child Maltreatment, Behavioral Sciences and the Law,  Social Justice Research, and Psychology of Women Quarterly, etc. They have published numerous scholarly articles and edited a number of books relating to the law. They have served as Presidents of professional societies such as APA Division 37 (Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice) and the Internatational Society for Justice Research.

Here is a list of the faculty members involved in the Psychology and Law Minor at UIC.  The list includes instant email as well as links to their web pages.  Faculty members' web pages provide a more detailed biography and a selected list of recent publications.  

Core Psychology and Law Faculty in the UIC Department of Psychology and Affiliated UIC Faculty:

• Bette L. Bottoms, Department of Psychology, Core
  (PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992): Psychology and law, children's eyewitness testimony, child abuse, jurors perception of child witnesses and juvenile offenders, detecting children's deceit, repressed memory allegations. [webpage] 
   
• Stephanie Riger, Department of Psychology, Core
  (PhD, University of Michigan, 1973): Women in organizations and community settings, violence against women, women and the law. [webpage]

• Linda J. Skitka, Department of Psychology, Core
  (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989): Distributive and retributive justice, political psychology, ideology, scarcity, accountability. [webpage]
   
• Patrick H. Tolan, Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated
  (PhD, University of Tennessee, 1983): Prevention of anti-social behavior; risk models. [webpage]
   
• Sarah E. Ullman, Department of Criminal Justice, Affiliated
  (PhD, Brandeis University, 1990): Criminal victimization, rape prevention; stress and coping theory; post-traumatic stress disorder; social reactions to victims, drinking, substance abuse, survey research. [webpage]

• Dennis Rosenbaum, Department of Criminal Justice, Affiliated
  (PhD, Loyola University, 1980): Evaluation methods; crime prevention theory and research; police organizations and community policing; drugs and crime. [webpage]