B Science (Hons), M Arts, PhD
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Biography
Rachel Dioso-Villa is a Lecturer at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She received her PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine and her M.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto.
Her broad research interests include the study of forensic science, law and society. She examines the admissibility of forensic evidence in court, representations of crime and forensic science in the media, jury studies, and miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions. Dr. Dioso-Villa recently completed a comparative study on the admission of expert evidence in criminal and civil cases in the U.S. She is also working on research in the area of forensic science and its role in wrongful convictions.
Dr Dioso-Villa has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the American Society of Criminology and the Canadian Foundation of University Women. Her work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Canadian Journal of Criminology, International Criminal justice Review, and the Wall Street Journal.