Teaching Faculty

St. Ambrose faculty have professional and academic backgrounds in corrections, law, criminology, sociology, education, human services and law enforcement. Professors keep current through consulting work and have been awarded grant money to pursue their varied research interests.

Departmental research topics include:

• How women are treated in criminal justice and the prison system
• Counseling and offender treatment
• The effect of alcohol prohibition in the United States on liver cirrhosis theory
• Recidivism and treatment at halfway houses
• Gender issues and treatment
• The effect of race and gender on decision making