Claudia Rocha

Claudia Rocha is a Sociology instructor at El Paso Community College and Park University, focusing on criminology and social psychology. She earned her BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Texas at El Paso and completed her PhD at Texas A&M University.

Research interests:

• Application of Low Self-Control Theory to neighborhood contexts
• Crime and deviance
• Social psychological aspects of criminal behavior

Awards and fellowships:

• National Science Foundation's EDGE-SBE Fellowship
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund/The Peierls Foundation Shooting Star Scholarship
• Texas Aggie Graduate Scholarship