Press Release
June 3, 1997
Dr. Robert Langworthy has accepted
the position of Director of the Justice Center at the University
of Alaska Anchorage and will join the university in mid-July.
Since 1987 Langworthy has been a member of the faculty in the
Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.
From 1995 to 1996, while on a leave of absence from the University
of Cincinnati, he served on the National Institute of Justice
project management team for research on the Community Oriented
Policing program.
During his tenure at the University
of Cincinnati Dr. Langworthy developed the doctoral program in
criminal justice and directed it through the approval process
of the Ohio Board of Regents. He is the author of three books
and numerous articles on justice issues and has served on the
editorial boards of several journals, including Justice Quarterly.
Among his publications is The Structure of Police Organizations
(New York: Praeger, 1986). He received his doctoral and master's
degrees in criminal justice from the State University of New
York at Albany and a master's in geography from Mankato State
College. His areas of research include police organization, police
use of force, evaluation of police stings and the spatial analysis
of crime.
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