Dr. Lynne Vieraitis is a faculty member in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (previously, Social Sciences) at UT-Dallas in the Criminology Program. She teaches the Senior Seminar in Criminology and a graduate course in policy. Her primary areas of research interest are inequality and homicide, violence against women, and criminal justice policy. She was a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham before coming to UTD in 2007.