Title:	Graduate Program Director and Professor
	Office:	Lewis Towers 920, WTC
	Phone:	312-915-7567
	E-mail:	lstalan@luc.edu

Personal Information

Loretta J. Stalans is Graduate Program Director of Criminal Justice, a Professor of Criminal Justice and Psychology, a full member of the graduate faculty, and an affiliated Professor of Women?s Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago.  She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago in 1990, and has taught at Loyola since 1994.  Before coming to Loyola, she was an assistant professor of Criminal Justice and Center Fellow at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Georgia State University (1991 to 1994) and a Collaborating Scholar of the American Bar Foundation (1990-1999).

Dr. Stalans is a peer reviewer for academic journals, book publishing companies and national grant funding agencies. She is Associate Editor of Victims and Offenders, an academic peer-reviewed journal.  She serves on three editorial boards:  Canadian Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice Review, and Law & Human Behavior.  She also serves as a reviewer for fifteen other academic journals in the field of criminal justice or psychology.  She serves as a panelist and reviewer of grants submitted to the sexual violence program of the National Institute of Justice.  She also serves as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Program.

She has written two books, including Penal Populism and Public Opinion:  International Perspective Across Five Countries (2004) published by Oxford University Press and co-authored with Roberts, Hough, and Indemaur.  She has published extensively in the areas of public opinion about justice, police discretionary decision-making, predicting violent or sexual recidivism, taxpayer compliance, and lay and professionals stereotypes or expectations about crime and legal procedures.  She has published numerous articles in top refereed academic journals, many book chapters, and several technical and grant reports. Click here to see her vitae.

She has given invited talks at University of Cambridge Law School, Public Attitudes to Sentencing Conference in London England, and the NIJ Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation Conference.  She has presented numerous research papers at professional conferences.  She has received funding for her research in the areas of understanding tax audits, evaluation of domestic violence screening tool, police decision-making about domestic violence, predicting violent recidivism, and evaluations of specialized sex offender probation programs.

She has served as chair of master?s theses and major papers in criminal justice, social psychology, and women?s studies, and has served as an external dissertation committee member for universities in Australia and the United States.  Her teaching experience and interests include classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level in:  research methods, domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual exploitation of children, popular culture, public views about justice, courts and criminal law, and social psychological applications to the criminal justice system.  Her research skills include both qualitative interviewing and coding of narratives, quasi-experimental designs, experiments, vignette survey designs, and cutting-edge statistical tools including optimal data analysis, classification tree analysis, and ROC analysis.