Public Admin Faculty : Michael P. Polakowski

	Associate Professor
	Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
	Phone:	520.621.1678
	Fax:	520.626.5549
	Email:	mikep@eller.arizona.edu
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 405FF

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

• INDV 102 Business in Modern Society
• PA 241 Criminal Justice Administration
• PA 540 Correctional Theories and Policies

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Criminology/deviance
• Sociology of law
• Criminal justice
• Law enforcement
• Methods and statistics
• Corrections
• Complex organizations

Publications and Working Papers

1992. Losing Lifestyles of Career Criminals. Contemporary Psychology. 37:7 p. 646. Review of Glenn D. Walters. 1990. The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal Conduct. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

1992. Policy Currents. 2:3 p. 17-8. Review of Gary Kleck. 1991. Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America. New York: Aldine.

1992. Prestige of Criminal and Conventional Occupations: A Subcultural Model of Criminal Activity. American Sociological Review. 57:6 p. 752-770. (With Ross Matsueda, Rosemary Gartner, and Irving Piliavin.)

1994. Linking Self and Social Control with Deviance: Illuminating the Stucture Underlying a General Theory of Crime and Its Relation to Deviance. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 10:1 p. 41-78.

1995. Determinants and Prevention of Criminal Behavior. In Psychology and Policing, Ed. by: Neil Brewer and Carlene Wilson. (With Michael R. Gottfredson). Hillsdale, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. Pp. 63-80.

1996. Release Decisions, Pre-trial Deviance, and Risk Assessment Tools: A Study of Pima County Pre-trial Services. (With Neil Vance.) Rombach Institute of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections, White paper.

1996. The Use of Prisons as a Commons Problem: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 33:1 p. 70-93.(With Michael Gottfredson)

1998. It’s Not Really Theft: Personal and Workplace Ethics that
Enable Software Piracy. Behavior and Information Technology. 17:27-40.(With Darryl Seale and Sherry Schneider.)

1998. A Follow-up Study of Release Decisions, Pre-trial Deviance Risk Assessment Tools: A Study Conducted for Pima County Pre-trial Services. Rombach Institute of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, White Paper.

2000. Pima County Drug Court: Statistical and Process Evaluation. Rombach Institute of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, White Paper.

2002. Pre-trial Release Based Upon Local Tradition or Empirical Risk Assessment Tools?: An Exploratory Analysis of Development and Implementation. Rombach Institute of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, White Paper.

2002. Drug Courts and Justice: Testing Blumberg's concept of coopting a Profession. Rombach Institute of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, White Paper.

Professional Associations

• American Sociological Association
• American Society of Criminology
• Society for the Study of Social Problems

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Faculty from MPA Graduating Class, 1999, 2004
• Appointed by Governors Napalitano and Hull to Peace Officer Standards and Training Board of Arizona, 2002, 2004
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002, 7th Edition
• Awarded for Faculty Oversight of Undergraduate Society of Criminal Justice Studies, 1995, 1999, 2003