Dr. Walter DeKeseredy
Title: Professor
Research interests:
Focuses much of his work on creating safer and healthier public and private environments for women.
Supervision Areas: Woman abuse; Rural Crime and Justice; Poverty and Crime; Sociological Theories of Crime.
Biography
Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy is the co-recipient of UOIT's first Research Excellence Award, which was granted in the fall of 2007. Dr. DeKeseredy is also the co-recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime's 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award. In 1995, he was awarded the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology's Critical Criminologist of the Year Award. Most recently, Dr. DeKeseredy was awarded the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology.
Author or co-author of over 70 scientific journal articles, Dr. DeKeseredy has authored or co-authored 13 books on topics such as woman abuse, crime and poverty in public housing, and women in conflict with the law. In addition to making numerous scholarly contributions to his field, Dr. DeKeseredy is frequently called upon to provide advice and guidance to government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Justice Department.
Links of interest
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