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| Ron Thrasher | |
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Visiting Assistant Professor Contact Information: E-mail: rthrasher@stillwater.org Personal Web Page |
| Research Interests: Social psychology, criminology/deviance, violent serial offenders, workplace/school violence, and police suicide. | |
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| Recent university courses taught include: Social Psychology, Criminology, Criminal Behavioral Analysis, Criminalistics (Forensics), Police Administration and Introductory Sociology. Private sector classes include: Workplace Violence, School Violence, Assessing threats of violence and Stress in the Workplace. Recent research involves looking into the relationship between various types of enforcement of “nuisance laws” (prohibitions against drinking beer on sidewalks, littering, etc.) and serious crime (murder, rape, assault, etc.). I also work on theory development to explain and address the phenomenon that police in America are as much as seven times more likely to commit suicide as they are to be killed by an assailant in the line of duty. Most recently, my research efforts are directed in the area of evaluation research of federally funded programs such as therapeutic drug courts, juvenile justice programs and programs involving placing police officers in secondary schools. | |
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