Gabriel Alvarez

Gabriel Alvarez is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Irvine in Criminology, Law and Society. He received his Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Master of Public Administration, and Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence and Evidence-Based Practice at Arizona State University. His research focuses primarily on family violence and the consequences of criminal justice/legal system interaction. He is interested in understanding risk factors and decision-making within IPV and IPH by offenders and victims. Alvarez is especially interested in the consequences exposure to family violence/legal system has on child and adolescent development. Alvarez is also working on projects to understand how families navigate surveillance by the legal system, inequalities in family demographics, and life-course criminology.