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Professor
HCRD, Rural Sociology
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1976 (Areas of specialization: community, social change)
- M.A., Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1974
- B.A., Sociology, Thomas More College, 1971
Teaching Experience
- Rural Sociology 105: Introduction to Rural Sociology (5 credits, two sections, Winter Quarter)
- Rural Sociology 622: Amish Society (5 credits, Winter Quarter)
- Rural Sociology 788: The Change Agent (5 credits, Spring Quarter, even numbered years)
Area of Research
Primary focus on rural crime. Secondary focus on change in Amish communities.
- Various assessments of prevention programs through 4 stakeholders: students, parents, educators, and police officers (funds provided by the Office of Criminal Justice Services, State of Ohio through the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police ,000, and the Franklin County (Ohio) Safe and Drug Free Schools Consortium. ,000)
- Assessment of police executive leadership programs (funds provided by the Office of Criminal Justice Services, State of Ohio through the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. ,000)
- Analysis of rural-urban differences in epidemiologic and etiologic patterns of adolescent substance use (funded by the National Research Initiative, USDA. ,000)
- The relationship between community structure and rural crime rates, and agricultural crime (funded by the Australian Criminological Research Council, ,500(Au), and the New South Wales Attorney General=s Department. ,728(Au), respectively )
- Evaluation of cross-functional problem-solving teams within the Columbus Police Department (funds provided by Franklin County Justice Planning. ,252)
Service
- Member of the American Society of Criminology and Rural Sociological Society
- Member of the Executive Institute Committee, Police Executive Leadership College, Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police
- Chair, Departmental Professional Recognition and Development Committee
- Primary author, Department Teaching Award (,000 annually) and the Comprehensive Department Plan for Faculty Development (,000)
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