Yunmei (Iris) Lu
PhD
Director of Criminology Master of Science (MS) Program
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Life Course Criminology; Social Change; Comparative Study; Social Responses to Crime; Sentencing; Quantitative Methods
About
Yunmei (Iris) Lu is an Assistant Professor in the UB Department of Sociology and Criminology. She received her PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University in 2018. Her main research interests include life course criminology, social change, comparative study, age-period-cohort analysis, social responses to crime, and sentencing. Her recent research applies age-period-cohort modeling techniques to examine the impact of cultural context and social change on age-specific crime patterns in different countries and population subgroups.
Education
- PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2018
- MA, University at Albany, SUNY, 2013
- MPhil, University of Cambridge, UK, 2012
- BA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 2011
Recent Courses
- Basic Statistics for Social Sciences
- Crime and the Life Course
- Global Criminology
- Inequality & Crime (graduate)
- Social Research Methods (graduate)