Experts Guide

Fox is a former FBI agent and Co-Director of the Center for Justice Research & Policy. Her research focuses on the identification of psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior and prolific offending, experimental field research and evidence-based policing and crime prevention strategies.

Verona is co-director of the Center for Justice Research and Policy at the University of South Florida, and and affiliate in USF's Department of Criminology. She studies personality disorders, externalizing and antisocial behaviors and self- and other-directed violence. Her recent research has focused on treatment implementation and prevention services adapted to field settings. Her lab applies science to understand individual and contextual routes to externalizing behaviors and criminal legal involvement and to uncover intersections between mental health and criminal justice system involvement.

Cochran's research interests include micro-social theories of criminal behavior, macro-social theories of crime and crime control, assessments of issues regarding the legitimacy of capital punishment and quantitative data collection and analysis.

Hall's research focuses on understanding how systems of power, oppression and trauma interact within the criminal justice system, and how these dynamics contribute to crime and societal harm. She is particularly focused on how trauma influences criminal behavior, how interactions with the criminal justice system affect justice-involved individuals and the ways police and correctional staff respond to trauma.