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Charis E. Kubrin is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and (by courtesy) Sociology. She is also a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice- Network. Her research focuses on neighborhood correlates of crime, with an emphasis on race and violent crime. Recent work in this area examines the immigration-crime nexus across neighborhoods and cities, as well as assesses the impact of criminal justice reform on crime rates. Another line of research explores the intersection of music, culture, and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and minority youth in disadvantaged communities. Professor Kubrin has received several national awards including the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology (for outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology); the Coramae Richey Mann Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime, the American Society of Criminology (for outstanding contributions of scholarship on race/ethnicity, crime, and justice); and the W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Western Society of Criminology (for significant contributions to racial and ethnic issues in the field of criminology). Most recently she received the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology (for outstanding contributions to the field of criminology). In 2019, she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Issues of race and justice are at the forefront of Professor Kubrin’s TEDx talk, The Threatening Nature of…Rap Music?, which focuses on the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials against young men of color. Along with Barbara Seymour Giordano, Kubrin received a Cicero Speechwriting Award for this talk in the category of “Controversial or Highly Politicized Topic.”

Benjamin F. Stickle, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He teaches courses on policing, investigations, and qualitative research methods.

PHD, University of Louisville (2015)
MS, University of Louisville (2010)
BA, Cedarville University (2005)

Stickle is actively engaged in practitioner-researcher partnerships. Leveraging his unique background has allowed numerous funded grant partnerships with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Rutherford County Correctional Work Center, Gallatin Police, Middle Tennessee Rural Reentry Program, and others.

In addition to his grant work and teaching, he is a Senior Fellow for Criminal Justice with the Beacon Center of Tennessee, an Affiliated Faculty with the Political Economy Research Institute (MTSU), and serves on the Executive Board of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. His current research focus includes package theft, police use of force and management, and emerging crime types (i.e., pet theft, crime in the sharing economy, and crime during COVID).
Selected Awards & Honors


Global Thought Leaders & Influencers (#1 for Health & Safety, #5 for COVID Business Impact, #10 for Risk Management, #21 in Supply Chain Management), Thinkers 360 (2021)


Distinguished Research Award, Middle Tennessee State University (2020) 


McGraw Hill Distinguished Scholar Award, Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference (2020)
 

Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award for Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit, Mid-South Sociological Association (2019)

Learn more at BenStickle.com.

Omi Hodwitz’s expertise sheds light on the nuances of terrorism and crime. Before joining University of Idaho, she worked as a researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at University of Maryland. Hodwitz’s research interests include the role of non-combatants in the escalation of terrorist activity, and she has conducted fieldwork in conflict regions such as Pakistan and Turkey.
Additionally, she has worked extensively to compile the most comprehensive database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirits (MMIWG2) in the United States and Canada.
Hodwitz also provided the spark for getting U of I involved in the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. The worldwide program allows U of I students to experience education in our prison system and correctional residents a glimpse at their own potential. As of 2022, thanks in part to Hodwitz’s leadership, incarcerated individuals in Idaho now have greater access to higher education, using the U.S. Department of Education’s Second Chance Pell Experiment.
Available to speak on: 

Terrorism and counterterrorism (examining the impact of criminal justice responses and counterterrorism policy on terrorist offending and reoffending patterns)
Missing and murdered Indigenous people (examining contributing factors, policy responses and trends across time and space)
Prison education (fostering reformation and reducing recidivism through educational initiatives)