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Ryan Larson is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice in �侫��Ƶ's Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science. Dr. Larson’s research explores the complex relationships between crime, punishment, and stratification using quantitative and computational methodologies. Dr. Larson’s recent research includes investigations of the effect of police violence on community health, the spatiotemporal relationships between punishment loads and neighborhood structure, disadvantage, and crime, and the causal impact of “ban-the-box” policies on both employment and crime. Dr. Larson is a co-investigator on the Dual Debtors project, a researcher on the Multistate Study of Monetary Sanctions, and is part of the Locked Out research team that investigates the scope and implications of felony disenfranchisement in the United States. Dr. Larson has a PhD and MA in sociology from the University of Minnesota and a BA in sociology and psychology from Concordia College.

Professor Larson invites students not only to the “social facts” within criminology, but also the process and logic of social science that provides the scientific foundation for this knowledge. Dr. Larson has a passion for quantitative and statistical methods and works to convey these tools in an understandable and intuitive way. Through his teaching and collaborative research with students, he hopes students gain both substantive knowledge and methodological tools to help make sense of the social world, and their place within it, in order to become more responsibly engaged in society.

Professor Larson teaches Theories of Criminal Behavior, Punishment, Corrections, & Society, Basic Quantitative Criminology & Statistics, and Research Methods and Data Analysis. He also directs �侫��Ƶ’s Summer Collaborative Undergraduate Research program (SCUR), and leads the summer research seminar. Visit his website at .