Scholarly Activities for Faculty
Department faculty made presentations at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Seattle in March 2007:
- Dr. William Thornton and Dr. Lydia Voigt presented “Bridging Religion and Criminal Justice: A Dual Graduate Degree in Pastoral Theology and Criminal Justice,” written in conjunction with Dr. Mark Markuly, former LIM director.
- Dr. Wendy Hicks presented “Improving Instruction and Curriculum in Criminal Justice Education: The Use of Exit Surveys to Facilitate Growth.”
- Dr. Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing (MCJ ’07) presented “The Criminalization and Suppression of Abortion: New Orleans, 1940-1959.”
Dr. Hicks has published a textbook, “Police Vehicular
Pursuits: Constitutionality, Liability & Negligence.” Published
by Charles C. Thomas Publishers, it is on shelves now.
Dr. Hicks also assisted with the rewrite of the vehicular pursuit policy for Queensland, Australia.
Dr. Harper presented a paper titled “Risk of Murder at the Neighborhood Level: A Time Series Analysis” at the European Society of Criminology meeting in Bologna, Italy in September 2007.
Dr. Harper and Katrina W. Berger's (MCJ ’06) paper “Relevant Law and Empirical Research on Profiling in Law Enforcement in the United States” was presented in April 2007 at the International Police Executive Symposium meeting in Dubai, U.A.E.
Dr. Harper and Kelly Frailing’s paper “Various Socioeconomic Factors and the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans” was presented at the British Society of Criminology meeting in September 2007.
Kelly Frailing and Dr. Harper's “Crime and Hurricanes in New Orleans” is due to be published in the Southern Sociological Society edited volume, The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. The publisher is Rowman & Littlefield.
Dr. Harper and Gwen Nolan's (MCJ ’06) paper titled “What does it take to Recruit and Retain Police Officers?” was published in the Working Papers (#2, February, 2007) series of the International Police Executive Symposium.
Dr. Harper and Dr. Lydia Voigt’s paper “Homicide Followed by Suicide: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective” is set to be published in a forthcoming edition of the journal Homicide Studies.
To view successes of individual faculty members, please click on the following links below: