WITNESS
Kenneth Adams is Professor of Public Affairs and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida. His areas of research expertise include prison violence, mentally ill offenders, police-community relations, institutional corrections and evaluation of crime control strategies, such as gun control and juvenile curfews. He has authored three books with Hans Toch: Coping: Maladaptation in Prison; The Disturbed Violent Offender; and Acting Out: Maladaptative Behavior in Prison. He also has published several dozen articles that have appeared in leading criminology journals, along with various reports for government agencies.
He has been involved with the Program on Human Development and Criminal Behavior, sponsored by the Mac Arthur Foundation; the Scientific Oversight Committee for the Privatization of Federal Prisons Project, organized by the National Institute of Justice; and the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Adams received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany. He has received an excellence in undergraduate education award at Indiana University, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, and the Hubert Block Award for Outstanding Service from the American Society of Criminology.
Back to Witness List
|
|
|
