Experts Directory: Crime and Violence

Karen Morgaine 

Department of Sociology 

Office: (818) 677-3591 

Email: karen.morgaine@csun.edu 

  • Intersection of creativity and social justice work 
  • Social movements 
  • Art and social movements 
  • Community organizing 
  • Domestic violence 
  • Violence against women 
  • Sexual assault 

Co-Author: “Applying arts-based practice: Creative engagement in anti-oppressive social work,” “Anti-Oppressive social work practice: Putting theory into action” and “Anti-Oppressive social work practice: Putting theory into action” 

Author: “Pansexuality: A panoply of co-constructed narratives” 

Moshoula Capous-Desyllas 

Department of Sociology 

Office: (818) 677-3594 

Email: moshoula@csun.edu 

Languages: Greek, Spanish 

  • Clinical social work practices with children and youth 
  • Clinical social work practices with veterans 
  • Use of arts-based research methodologies as a form of activist for social justice 
  • Use of arts-based research methodologies to highlight the voices of marginalized individuals, groups & communities 
  • Community-based, photovoice projects with marginalized populations 
  • The power of the arts for individual and collective healing 
  • Visual sociology 
  • Public sociology 
  • Social welfare and social justice 
  • Anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice 
  • Intersectional feminist and queer theory 
  • Sex work/ sex trade 
  • Immigration/transnational migration 
  • Refugees/asylum seekers 
  • LGBTQ+ Children & Youth 

Bernardo Attias

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-6895 / 2853
email: bernardo.attias@csun.edu

  • War on terrorism
  • Media studies
  • Rhetorical studies
  • Political campaigns
  • Freedom of speech
  • Technology
  • Crime and punishment
  • Drug war
  • Peace and conflict
  • History of sexuality

Learn more about Bernardo Attias:

CSUN Professor Tackles Confederate Monuments, in 'Rhetoric of Peace and Conflict' Research

 

James David Ballard

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-2009 / 3591
email: james.ballard@csun.edu

  • Terrorism
  • Criminology
  • Nuclear power
  • Nuclear waste
  • Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear waste repository

 

Diane R. Gehart

Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
work: (818) 677-7468 /2599
email: diane.gehart@csun.edu
Also speaks: German

  • Marriage and family therapy
  • Child abuse
  • Couples issues
  • Communication
  • Mindfulness
  • Buddhist psychology
  • Positive psychology

 

Ellis Godard

Department of Sociology
work: (818) 677-4050
email: egodard@csun.edu

  • Statistical, survey and applied methods
  • Crime
  • Law
  • Deviancy
  • Social control
  • Media
  • Social movements and cyberspace

 

Vickie Jensen

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-3293 / 3591
email: vickie.jensen@csun.edu

  • Gender and crime
  • Domestic violence
  • Violence
  • Homicide
  • Sibling violence
  • Masculinities and crime
  • Parenting in jail and prison
  • Adaptations to jail and prison
  • Gender and corrections
  • Author: “Why Women Kill: Gender Equality and Homicide”

 

Amalie J. Orme

Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3864
email: amalie.orme@csun.edu

  • Flooding
  • Weather—storms
  • Landslides
  • Beach erosion
  • Fire
  • Gang prevention
  • Earthquakes and climate change in Owens Valley
  • Learn more about Amalie J. Orme's work:
  • CSUN Geography Students Take to the Sky to Better Study the Ground

 

Kay Kei-Ho Pih

Department of Sociology
work: (818) 677-3294
email: kay.pih@csun.edu

  • Criminology
  • Transnational crime
  • Gangs
  • Organized crime 

 

Mark Stevens

Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
work: (818) 677-2103
email: mark.stevens@csun.edu

  • Men’s issues
  • Rape education with men
  • Men and depression
  • Men’s health and psychotherapy
  • Author: “In the Room with Men: A Casebook of Therapeutic Change”

Learn more about Mark Stevens:

Selfies of Professors’ Show Students the Other Side of College Life

 

Adam R. Swenson

Department of Philosophy
work: (818) 677-2750
email: adam.swenson@csun.edu

  • Ethics
  • Social/political philosophy
  • Pain medicine
  • Understanding of what pain is and why patients’ judgments about pain are always right in regards to working with medical students
  • Palliative care
  • Drug policy
  • Drug policy
  • Philosophy of criminal law
  • Torture

 

Bruce Zucker

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-3964
email: bruce.zucker@csun.edu

  • Parole
  • Probation
  • Criminal appeals
  • Prison conditions
  • Prison rights
  • Parole hearings
  • Habeas corpus
  • Factual and actual innocence