Leah Butler
Chair
Leah C. Butler, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research centers on corrections, with an emphasis on the effects of racial attitudes on public opinion of correctional policy. She also conducts research in victimology, with a focus on intimate partner violence and sexual violence.
Sean Patrick Roche
Vice Chair
Chair, Awards Committee
Chair, Constitution and By-Laws Committee
Sean Patrick Roche is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. His research interests include policing, public opinion on crime and criminal justice issues, survey research methods, and offender decision-making.
Christi Metcalfe
Secretary/Treasurer
Historian
Christi Metcalfe is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include attitudes toward crime and the criminal justice system, criminal courts, defendant decision-making, and life course criminology.
Luzi Shi
Executive Counselor
Chair, Communications Committee
Dr. Luzi Shi is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Rhode Island. She conducts survey research to understand the social sources of biases, punitiveness, and stigma in the context of criminal justice and their influence on crime control policies. She also conducts experiments to test ways to reduce stereotypes and misperceptions of marginalized social groups.
Audrey Hickert
Executive Counselor
Parliamentarian
Chair, Nominations Committee
Audrey Hickert is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include corrections, reentry, desistance, and public opinion on these topics.
Andrew Baranauskas
Executive Counselor
Newsletter Editor
Chair, Publications Committee
Andrew J. Baranauskas is an associate professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport. His research interests include crime in the media, public opinion on crime and justice, and crime in urban communities.
Jason R. Silver
Executive Counselor
ASC Meeting Organizer
Chair, Program Committee
Jason R. Silver is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University—Newark. His research interests include the roles of morality and ideology in shaping how people approach criminal justice and crime.
Cheryl Lero Jonson
Immediate Past Chair
Cheryl Lero Jonson is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Xavier University. Her research interests include the impact of prison on recidivism, public opinion and criminal justice policy, and active assailant responses.