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Profiles

Elizabeth Webster, PhD

Title/s:  Associate Professor

Office #:  Mundelein Center, Room 807C

Phone: 773.508.8631

Email: ewebster1@luc.edu

CV Link: E_Webster_2023

About

Dr. Webster joined the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University Chicago in Fall 2018. She studies court operations and courtroom workgroup decision making at every stage of processing, but particularly postconviction. Her research, “A Postconviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration,” which explores prosecutors’ decision making in wrongful conviction cases, was funded by the National Institute of Justice. Her current research projects include defendants’ experiences of bond court, and exonerees’ perceptions of their postconviction legal process. She is a former communications professional at the Innocence Project, and an alum of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.

 

Research Interests

Miscarriage of Justice, Criminal Justice Policy, Courts, Corrections, Law and Society, Theories of Crime, Qualitative Research Methods, Crime and the Media, Gender and Crime, Race and Crime

 

 

Courses Taught

CJC 201 Theories of Criminal Behavior

CJC 312 Popular Culture and Crime

CJC 372 Race, Ethnicity and Crime

CJC 374 Miscarriages of Justice