Researcher Profile

 

Dr. Dianne Williams

Dr. Dianne Williams

 

Conferments:

B.Sc. Accounting (York College, City University of New York)

MBA (High Point University, High Point NC)

Ph.D. Criminology (Capella University, Minneapolis, MN)

 

Position:

Lecturer 

 

Courses taught:

Theories and Research Issues in Criminology

Reading Course

Beyond Race and Racism

Crime and Public Policy

 

Research Interests:
Restorative Justice, Alternatives to Incarceration, Prison Reform, Juvenile Justice.

 

Publications:
Books:

  1. (Forthcoming 2009):  Race, Ethnicity and Crime. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  2. 2009: Racial, Cultural and Sociopolitical Disparities in Mental Health Administration in Social Pathology: An Introduction. Kolkata, India: ICFAI University Press. (Previously published in African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, Vol. 2(1) 2006).
  3. 2008: The increasing influence of Islamic Fundamentalists on the African American Community in Intellectual Apologies for Terrorism (Ed. Thomas Gilly and Yakov Giliskiy in association with Vladimir Sergevnin. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Publishers         

Articles:

  1. 2008: Alternative Responses to Crime by Society, Published in Battleground a Criminal Justice Encyclopedia co Authored with Jessica Williams  (Ed. Gregg Barak) Greenwood Publishing Group
  2. 2006: Racial, Cultural and Sociopolitical Disparities in Mental Health Administration in the U.S., African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, Vol. 2(1).
  3. 2005: Racial Bias within the Criminal Justice System Contributes to the Overrepresentation of African-American males in Correctional Facilities, Journal of Crime, Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 2(1).
  4. 2004: Race, Ethnicity and Culture; Psychological Variables in the Etiology of Deviant Behavior, Journal of Crime, Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 1(1).      
  5. 2004: Advice & Predictions for 2004, Prisons Almanac 2004, Prisons Foundation: Washington DC.

 

Conference Presentations:

 

  1. 2009 - University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad. Restorative Justice: The Philosophy, The Principles and The Practice
  2. 2008
    • - International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Conference, Edmonton, Alberta Canada:  Faculty and Student – Driven Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Focused on Institutional Needs
    • - Lilly Conference on Teaching and Learning, Learning by Design. Greensboro North Carolina               
    • - North Carolina State Undergraduate Assessment Symposium, Cary North Carolina           
  3. 2006 - 4th International Conference on Crime & Justice in the Caribbean, University of the West Indies, Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. Reinvesting in Community Corrections: A Crime Control Perspective
  4. 2005
    • - W.E.B. Du Bois Institute 4th Annual Spring Conference, Clark   Atlanta University, Atlanta Georgia
    • - 14th World Congress of Criminology,  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania