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Michele Meitl

Michele Meitl, JD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Assistant Director Graduate Program

817-257-5846 Scharbauer Hall (map link)

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsCriminology & Criminal JusticeMaster of Liberal Arts
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  • Criminal Law

Education

Ph.D. Criminology, University of Texas at Dallas
J.D. The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
M.A. Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
B.A. Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara

Courses Taught

Criminal Law

Courts & Judicial Process

Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice

Mock Trial

Research and Writing 

Legal Issues in Law Enforcement Management

Courts, Law, and Legal Procedure

Freedom of Speech

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Introduction to University Life

Areas of Focus

Criminal Law and Procedure

Law and Public Policy

U.S. Supreme Court

Crime and Popular Culture

Violence and Gun Control

Courts, Sentencing, and Re-entry

  • Meitl, M. M., & DeShay, R. (2025). Federal Courtroom Working Group. In Handbook of US Federal Criminal Justice. Routledge. (In Press)

  • Meitl, M.B., Wellman, A. & Kinkade, P. (2022). From the eagle’s nest: Texas sheriffs’ views on illegal immigration. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. (Online first).
  • Meitl, M. B. (2021). Four-thousand voices: Self-reported barriers to reentry. Federal Probation: A Journal of Correctional Philosophy and Practice, 85(2) 16-21.

  • Meitl, M.B., Wellman, A. & Kinkade, P. (2021). Texas sheriffs’ perceptions on firearm regulations and mass shootings. International Journal of Police Science and Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557211004621

  • Meitl, M.B. (2020). Evidence-based opinions?: How the top jurists in the United States differ in their use of social science in criminal procedure decisions. The Social Science Journal. doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1806582

  • Meitl, M. B., Wellman, A. P., & Kinkade, P. (2020). Armed and (potentially) dangerous: Exploring sheriffs’ perspectives of police militarization. Policing: An International Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-05-2020-0079

  • Nodeland, B., Craig, J., & Meitl, M.B. (2020). Team-based learning in criminal justice: Application-focused activities in the classroom.  Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 31(3), 135-157.

  • Wellman, A. P., & Meitl, M. B. (2020). Exploring cold case homicide survivors' perceptions of and relationships with law enforcement. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication.

  • Meitl, M. B., Piquero, N. L. & Piquero, A. R. (2019). The gradual warm-up: The United States Supreme Court’s reliance on social science research in constitutional criminal law and procedure opinions, 2001-2015. Deviant Behavior.  Advance online publication.

  • Meitl, M. B., Piquero, N. L., & Piquero, A. R. (2017).  Predicting the length of Jury deliberations. Journal of Crime and Justice, 40(2), 238-245.

  • Powell, Z., Meitl, M. B., Worrall, J. L. (2017). Police consent decrees and section 1983 civil rights litigation. Criminology and Public Policy, 16(2), 575-605.

  • Piquero, N. L., Meitl, M. B, Brank, E. M., Woolard, J. L., Lanza-Kaduce, L., & Piquero, A. R. (2016). Exploring lawyer misconduct: An examination of the self-regulation process. Deviant Behavior, 37(5), 573-584.

Last Updated: February 28, 2025

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