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Prof. David O. Friedrichs
- Department: Sociology/Criminal Justice
- Office: O'Hara Hall 421
- Office Hours: Varies by semester, posted on office door
- Phone: 570-941-7467
- E-mail: friedrichsd1@scranton.edu
- FAX: 570-941-6485
David Friedrichs is Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice. He was educated at New York University and taught for nine years at City University of New York (Staten Island).
He is the author of Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society (ITP/Wadsworth, 1996; 2004) and Law in Our Lives: An Introduct ion (Roxbury, 2001; 2006). He is editor of State Crime: Volumes I and II (Ashgate, UK, 1998).
He has also published some 100 book chapters, articles, encyclopaedia entries, proceedings papers, and essays on such topics as the legitimation of the legal order, radical criminology, victimology, violence, narrative jurisprudence, the death penalty, postmodern thought, peacemaking criminology, white collar crime, and crimes of states. His articles have been published in such journals as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delin quency, Criminal Justice Review, Critical Criminology, Crime, Law & Social Change, Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Journal of Human Justice, Social Justice, Humanity & Society, Social Research, Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Legal Education, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Teaching Sociology, as well as in various books, conference proceedings, and other professional publications. Over 300 of his book reviews have been published in various journals.
Prof. Friedrichs was editor of the Legal Studies Forum between 1985 and 1989. He has also been active with numerous professional associations, and has served as an officer, as committee chair, or committee member for divisions of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Association for Humanist Sociology. He has served on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Justice Quarterly, The American Sociologist, Critical Criminology, War, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, and Social Justice. He has served as President at the White Colar Crime Research Consortium (2002-2004), and a Member of the Working Groups on Crime as Busniess (Wharton School). He has been a visiting professor or guest lecturer at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of South Africa, Ohio University (as Rufus Putnam Visiting Professor), Hebrew University, Western Michigan Universty, and Eastern Kentucky University.
Courses taught by Prof. Friedrichs include Introductory Sociology, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Social Problems, Law & Society, White Collar Crime, Victimology, and the Sociology of Deviance. He co-teaches a course on The Holocaust. In the past he has also taught Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, the American Court System, Drugs & Society, Introductory Anthropology and Introductory Philosophy.
In terms of university service David Friedrichs currently serves as a member of the University Travel Committee and the Judaic Studies Program Advisory Committee. He has also served as a member of the University Fulbright Committee, the Library Committee, the Research Committee, the CAS Dean's Conference, and The University of Scranton Press Editorial Advisory Board Committee, among other committees.
On the personal side, David Friedrichs is a native of New Rochelle, New York, and has resided in northeast Pennsylvania since 1977 (currently in Clarks Green). He is married to the former Jeanne Windle, and has two children, Jessica and Bryan. He enjoys traveling with his family, reading and collecting books, genealogy and old photographs, and (now and again) tennis and skiing.
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