Dr Charles Lanfear

Charles Lanfear is an Associate Professor and received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on how crime, victimization, and social control are related to large-scale changes in communities and society as a whole. He approaches this topic with methods from causal inference, demography, and computational social science. He teach courses and workshops on quantitative methods, research design, and programming for data analysis with R. He is a committed advocate for reproducible research, and his replication files and course materials are open access via his public website and GitHub profile.