The Department of Criminal Justice is pleased to welcome Dr. Luis C. Torres to the faculty as Assistant Professor. Dr. Torres’s research primarily focuses in the areas of courts, pre-trial proceedings, judicial decision-making, and courtroom workgroups. His work considers how factors, beyond the conventional legal and non-legal typically examined in court studies, influence courtroom processes and decision-making. Dr. Torres’s manuscripts have been published in several different peer-reviewed journals including Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Crime and Justice, and Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Dr. Torres earned his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri—St. Louis, and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.