ADVENTURES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, FOURTH EDITION (by
Logio, Dowdall,
Babbie and Halley) has been published by Pine Forge Press. The book is available
with and without SPSS Student Version (see the Pine Forge website for details).
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
George W. Dowdall is
Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University. His research and teaching
interests include mental health, substance use, and research methods. His recent
publications include
The Eclipse Of The State Mental Hospital (State
University of New York Press, 1996);
Adventures In Criminal Justice Research:
Data Analysis Using SPSS For Windows, Fourth Edition (Pine Forge
Press,
1999); and papers on college student binge drinking published in journals
such
Journal
of the American Medical Association, the
American Journal of
Public Health,
Journal of American College Health,
Psychology of Women Quarterly, and
Journal of
Studies on Alcohol.
He
is the author of a paper commissioned by the National Advisory Council on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Task Force on College Drinking.
Among his professional affiliations are
the American Public Health Association and
the American Sociological Association. A graduate of Regis High
School and Holy Cross College, he received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown
University and was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA School of Public
Health. He has been a regular faculty member at Indiana University, Buffalo
State, and Saint Joseph's, and has held visiting appointments at UCLA, the
University of Pennsylvania, the Brown University School of Medicine, and the
Harvard School of Public Health. He has served as chair of the Sociology
Department and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint
Joseph's, and participates in its Institute for Violence Research and
Prevention. In 2000, he was the American Sociological Association's
Congressional Fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. of
Delaware. He has participated in the evaluation of "Philadelphia Safe and
Sound," an initiative of the City of Philadelphia to improve the well-being of
its youth. He served as an evaluation consultant to the CAEAR (Communities
Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief) Coalition Foundation, the School Readiness
Initiative, and the Southwest Philadelphia Community Enrichment Center. At Saint
Joseph's, he teaches courses in research methods; health and mental health; and
substance abuse.
Tel.: 610-660-1674 Fax:
610-660-1688
Email: gdowdall@sju.edu
Fall 2008 Office Hours (Post Hall 136): T 1-4
and R 11:30-12:30, and by appointment
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George Dowdall's CV (a PDF
file: you must have Adobe Acrobat reader)
Last Revision: July 11,
2008.
http://www.sju.edu/~gdowdall