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J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Department of Criminal Justice College of Arts and Sciences

Hayden Griffin

Professor
hgriffin@uab.edu
(205) 934-2069
UBOB 313

Research Interests: Drug policy, corrections, law and society

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • BA, History/Political Science, Virginia Tech
  • JD, The T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond
  • MA, Criminal Justice, Radford University
  • PhD, Criminology, Law and Society, University of Florida

Dr. Griffin joined the faculty at UAB in 2013. He is a criminologist and an attorney. He is co-author (with Dr. Meghan Sacks) of Correctional Fundamentals: A Narrative Approach (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), co-editor (with Dr. Vanessa Woodward) of Routledge Handbook of Corrections in the United States (Routledge, 2018), second author (with Dr. Lior Gideon) of Correctional Management and the Law: A Penological Approach (Carolina Academic Press, 2017), and author (with Dr. Vanessa Woodward and Dr. John Sloan) of The Money and Politics of Criminal Justice Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2016). He has more than fifty articles and book chapters. Among the journals his research has been published in are International Journal of Drug Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior.

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