Criminal Justice

Faculty

Kathryn Johnson
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 242B
·(262) 551-5846
Kathryn Johnson came to Carthage with 25 years of teaching experience. She was an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University-Northwest in Gary, Ind., for five years, followed by a ...
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Stephen Lyng
  • Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 329
·(262) 551-5848
Stephen Lyng came to Carthage in 2004 after more than 15 years as an assistant and then associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to his nine-year ...
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Rick Matthews
  • Chair, Sociology Department
  • Director, Criminal Justice Program
  • Director, Writing Development
  • Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 310
·(262) 551-5825
Rick Matthews specializes in criminology, specifically state and corporate crime. His most recent publications have been in the areas of state-corporate crime, examining the ways in which state agencies and ...
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William Miller
  • Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 330
·(262) 551-5844
William Miller has published articles on risk taking, gambling, juvenile delinquency and homicide, among other topics. His work has been published in a number of scholarly journals including The ANNALS ...
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Michael Phegley
  • Associate Professor of Business Administration
Clausen Center 214
·(262) 551-2116
Michael Phegley is a practicing attorney with Phegley, Laufenberg & Jensen, a practice that concentrates on family, criminal, labor and employment law, as well as alternative dispute resolution. He is ...
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Wayne Thompson
  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 205
·(262) 551-5849
Wayne Thompson specializes in social dimensions of religion and crime, especially quantitative studies using sample survey research. Before he became a professor, Professor Thompson served on the research staffs of ...
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Additional Faculty

David Boehm

Adjunct Faculty, Criminal Justice
Lentz Hall 415
ukete1@aol.com • (262) 551-6300

Clayton Diskerud

Professor Emeritus, Social Science and Criminal Justice
disker@charter.net

Wynne Laufenberg

Adjunct Faculty, Criminal Justice

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