Stephen Rice

Stephen K. Rice, PhD (U of Florida) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Seattle University. Prior to joining Seattle University, he was an Assistant Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

His research interests coalesce around deference and defiance in individuals' interactions with the justice system. His publications have focused on racial and ethnic profiling, police/community cooperation, procedural and restorative justice, radicalization, final statements of the condemned, and the empirical assessment of criminological theories which inform these processes.

His work has appeared in journals to include Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance, and Policing. He is Co-Editor of Race, Ethnicity and Policing with New York University Press (2010). He is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology.