Faculty
Chris Donner, PhD
Title/s: Associate Professor and
Chairperson
Office #: Mundelein Center, Room 818
Phone: 773.508.8456
Email: cdonner@luc.edu
CV Link: Donner_CV_Fall_2023
About
Chris Donner joined the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Loyola University Chicago as an assistant professor in August 2015. Prior to his appointment, he was an assistant professor at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. He received tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2020. Dr. Donner's main research interests are focused in American law enforcement, specifically police misconduct. He has secondary interests in criminological theory, cybercrime, and quantitative methodology. Dr. Donner has worked on several funded research projects, and he worked closely with policing scholars and practitioners to produce translational research. He is currently working on an evaluation of Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act. Dr. Donner is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Midwest Criminal Justice Association. His recent work has been published in multiple peer-review journal outlets, such as Deviant Behavior, International Criminal Justice Review, Crime & Delinquency, Policing & Society, and Social Science Quarterly.
Degrees
In progress M.P.P., Public Policy Loyola University Chicago
2013 Ph.D., Criminology University of South Florida
2007 M.S., Criminal Justice University of Cincinnati
2006 B.S., Criminal Justice University of Cincinnati
Research Interests
American law enforcement
Police integrity and misconduct
Cybercrime
U.S. Supreme Court
Criminological Theory
Courses Taught
- Policing
- Crime Prevention
- Cybercrime
- Criminological Theory
- Statistics