Professor
Robert Hartmann McNamara is currently a professor of Criminal Justice at ÌÇÐÄVLOG. He is the former Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College at ÌÇÐÄVLOG and the former founding Associate Dean of Evening Undergraduate Studies at ÌÇÐÄVLOG and founding Director of the 2 + 2 program in Criminal Justice. ÌýHe is the author of thirty books, including:ÌýChiropractic Medicine: An Ethnographic Study; Social Problems; Juvenile Delinquency: Bridging Theory to Practice,ÌýProblem Children: Special Populations in Delinquency,ÌýMulticulturalism in the Criminal Justice System,ÌýHomelessness in America, 3 vols.;ÌýThe Lost Population: Status Offenders in America;Ìý; Boundary Dwellers: Homeless Women in Transitional Housing; A New Look at American Society;ÌýPerspectives on Social Problems; Understanding Contemporary Social Problems; Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South;ÌýCrime Displacement: The Other Side of Prevention;ÌýThe Times Square Hustler: Male Prostitution in New York City;ÌýSex, Scams and Street Life: The Sociology of New York City’s Times Square; Beating the Odds: Crime, Poverty, and Life in the Inner City;ÌýPolice and Policing;ÌýThe Urban Landscape: Selected; andÌýSocial Gerontology. His most recent effort,ÌýThe Criminalization of Immigration: Truth, Lies, Tragedy and Consequences, will be released by Praeger in February 2020. Dr. McNamara has also served as a Senior Research Fellow for the National Strategy Information Center, the Policy Lab, the Police Executive Research Forum, in Washington, D.C. and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. McNamara has also published numerous articles on a variety of topics and has been a consultant for state, federal and private agencies on topics such as AIDS, drug abuse, urban redevelopment, homelessness, policing, and gangs, and health care. He also worked with the Regional Community Policing Institute at Eastern Kentucky University to study school safety in eight high schools across the state. He also worked with the Mexican government and the National Strategy Information Center to develop an anti-corruption curriculum in their public schools. In 2015, Dr. McNamara was a Fellow at the American Council on Education, as part of the Emerging Leaders program. He was also a Fellow at the Executive Leadership Academy, as part of the American Leadership Institute in Washington, DC. He has extensive leadership training and has worked with a number of institutions in higher education on a variety of issues. Dr. McNamara holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.
Degrees
Ph.D. Sociology (Yale University)
M.Phil. Sociology (Yale University)
M.A. Sociology (Yale University)
M.S. Sociology/Criminal Justice (Southern Connecticut State University)
B.S. Justice and Law Administration (Western Connecticut State University)
A.S. Criminal Justice (Mattatuck Community College)