Stacia Stolzenberg

Stacia N. Stolzenberg is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University; she received tenure in 2021. She is also a core faculty for ASU's program on law and behavioral sciences. Dr. Stolzenberg was appointed as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Criminology and Criminal Justice in January of 2022. During this time, Dr. Stolzenberg acted as the Barrett Faculty Honors Advisor for Criminology and Criminal Justice students.Since summer of 2023, Dr. Stolzenberg has served as the Director of the In-Person Graduate Programs for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. In this capacity, she oversees the M.S. and Ph.D. Programs in the School. 

Trained as an applied developmental psychologist who completed a three-year postdoc at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, Dr. Stolzenberg takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying children’s reports of maltreatment, then applying her work to criminal justice systems. Her work focuses on the direct application of developmental science to increasing accurate and complete disclosures from children, without increasing false reporting. To do so, she studies the reporting, investigating and prosecuting of child maltreatment. Furthermore, Stolzenberg studies children’s competencies and vulnerabilities regarding their cognitive abilities, as they apply to child interviewing. She is also interested in methodological decision-making and how this influences the robustness of developmental science. Much of her work focuses on childhood victimization and sex crimes against youth.