E-mail this pageCriminal Justice Faculty - Dr. Richard Greenleaf
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Greenleaf began his career in criminal justice in Albuquerque. New Mexico, where he worked as a patrol officer and police sergeant. After spending seven years as a "beat cop" Professor Greenleaf obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Florida. His dissertation examined police-citizen interactions in the cities of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Greenleaf has previously held faculty appointments at Loyola University Chicago, Framingham State College, and California State University, Fresno.
While Dr. Greenleaf's interests range from municipal police practices to the criminal courts and corrections, he has spent most of his professional career evaluating police encounters with the public. He recently completed a study on racial profiling in the city of Seattle (with Wes Skogan and Arthur Lurigio) and officer-youth encounters in the city of Chicago (with Warren Friedman and Arthur Lurigio). His last two manuscripts have been published in the Journal of Crime & Justice (2004) and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice (2005). Dr. Greenleaf has been interviewed by numerous media outlets including FOX TV News (Fresno and Chicago), the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Radio, Chicago Herald, Fresno Bee, Merced Sun-Star, Rockford Register, and Middlesex News.
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Florida, 1993
Teaching Areas
- Sociology of Policing
- Sociology of Minorities
- Organized Crime
- Research Methods
- Criminology and Deviance
Research Areas
- Community Policing
- Racial Profiling
- Domestic Violence
- Discretion, Disparity and Discrimination
- Crime Theories
Contact Dr. Richard Greenleaf
Phone: (518) 792-5425 ext. 6
E-mail: greenlrg@plattsburgh.edu
Office:
667 Bay Road, Suite 2B
Queensbury, NY 12804