User:Dennis J. Stevens

Dr. Stevens holds the distinction of Suma Cum Laude as an undergraduate in education and sociology, Magna Cum Laude as a master's degree graduate in psychology and sociology, and Highest Honors when he earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago in 1991. Currently, he teaches criminology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Formally, he held the positions of PhD director at University of Southern Mississippi, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Sociology at a regional North Carolina college. In addition to teaching traditional students, he has taught and counseled enforcement and correctional personnel at law academies such as the North Carolina Justice Academy and the Boston Police Academy and felons at maximum custody penitentiaries such as Attica in New York, NC Women's Institute in North Carolina, Stateville near Chicago, and MCI Framingham (women) in Massachusetts. Stevens has published several textbooks used in justice, psychology, and sociology university classrooms across the country. Visit Dennis J. Stevens on Facebook and at Amazon.com.

He has conducted almost 100 scholarly studies published in the peer reviewed press which include the prestigious Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, and The Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Stevens has been retained by state legislative committees to investigate corruption among narcotic officers, by international security corporations such as Wackenhut and Blackwater to develop manuals on the use of force, and national governments to better understand custody control methods. He has led group intervention groups for sexually abusive parents in New York, North Carolina, and South Carolina and has led group crisis sessions among New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officers after Hurricane Katrina. Currently, he is the editor of Justice Writers of America (JWA), a small band of writers who help justice and social science professionals develop articles, stories, and dissertations. Finally, he is a professional lecturer who accepts many invitations to speak at professional events. Feel free to check out what his students say at Rate Your Professor