CSFS Research and Scholarship
During their years of study at CSFS, students are supported to explore research that will advance the field of forensics and forensic psychology. Research opportunities are offered by individual faculty members with expertise in specific areas.
Faculty-focused Research
The faculty of CSFS has expertise in a wide variety of forensic areas. Examples of faculty-student research areas include:
- Developing and validating measures of response bias to identify feigned cognitive, physical, and psychiatric symptoms
- Response bias in test measures
- Validation of tests for police applicants
- Female sex offenders
- The relationship of juvenile attitudes to guns and violence
- Juvenile sex offenders
- Faculty and students present research findings at conferences and submit manuscripts to prominent peer-reviewed journals in the field