Omeed S. Ilchi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Introduction

Omeed Ilchi is an assistant professor of criminal justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. His primary research and teaching interests are policing, corrections and criminological theory.

Research Overview

Ilchi’s current research focuses on perceptions of the police and police militarization, as well as support for policies that seek to increase police accountability. He has also published journal articles and book chapters related to the effectiveness of early intervention programs and life-course criminology.

In my spare time, I love to cook and bake. I have become pretty good at making pizza dough and sauce from scratch.

Select Publications

Ilchi, O. S., Hurst, Y. G., Frank, J., Jonson, C. L., & Soe, G. E. (2024). Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology. Journal of Criminal Justice, 90.

Ilchi, O. S., Hickling, S. J., & Frank, J. (2023). Citizen willingness to hold a police officer criminally responsible for the use of deadly force: Examining the correlates of finding guilt. Race and Justice.

Ilchi, O. S., Frank, J., & Hickling, S. J. (2022). Policing the police: Predicting citizen support for police accountability. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 23(6), 722-738.

Ilchi, O. S., & Frank, J. (2021). Supporting the message, not the messenger: The correlates of attitudes towards Black Lives Matter. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 46, 377-398.

Teaching Focus

Ilchi’s main teaching areas include policing, community corrections, institutional corrections, criminological theory, courts, statistics and race and ethnicity in the criminal justice system.