ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
Thursday, February 28, 2008
L. THOMAS WINFREE, JR.
PERSONAL DATA
Place of Birth: Wytheville, Virginia
Veteran Status: United States Army (1968-70);
Disabled Veteran (1970-present)
Home Telephone: (505) 522-9774
Office Address: Criminal Justice, MSC 3487/Box 30001
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-0001
Office Telephone: (505) 646-1592
E-mail Address: twinfree@nmsu.edu
ACADEMIC DEGREES
1976 Ph.D. (Sociology) Department of Sociology
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59801
1974 M.S. (Sociology) Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia 23220
1968 B.A. (Sociology) Department of Sociology
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia 23173
M.S. THESIS
The Youthful Offender and Assimilation: The Application of the Importation and
Deprivation Perspectives to Juvenile Corrections. Chair: Charles W. Thomas III
Ph.D. DISSERTATION
Anomie, Alienation and Rebellion: A Sociological Study of Rebellion in Two Institutions for Juvenile Offenders. Chair: Gordon Browder
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Criminology/Criminal Justice
Corrections: Jails & Prisons
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Justice Systems
Research Methods & Statistics
Police in Contemporary Society
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
7/90-present: Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State University. (Tenured, 7/90): Administrative Duties: Director, Graduate Studies (9/05-present); Duties: undergraduate and graduate instruction and advisement; departmental, university and community service. Other Duties: member, Faculty Senate, 8/01-5/04; member, Arts and Sciences Faculty Affairs Committee, 8/00-5/04; member, NMSU Human Subjects Committee (Institutional Review Board): 1/93-6/96, 5/02-present; Sabbatical leaves: Faculty Guest, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 9/96-12/96; Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2/03-5/03.
7/90-6/99: Academic Department Head, Department of Criminal Justice, NMSU. (Tenured, 7/90.) Administrative Duties: supervise six (1990-1996) to eight (1996-1999) full-time faculty, several adjunct faculty, and departmental secretary; fiscal responsibility for departmental budget; plan/staff course offerings; recruit students; provide mentorship to non-tenured faculty; responsible to dean, College of Arts and Sciences. Other Duties: Advise graduate and undergraduate students, particularly initial advisement; undergraduate and graduate instruction; departmental, college, university, and community service.
9/87-7/90: Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State University. Duties: undergraduate and graduate instruction and advisement; departmental, university and community service; served as graduate coordinator (8/87-7/90).
8/79-7/87: Assistant (79-81) to Associate Professor (81-87), Louisiana State University. (Tenured, 8/81; sabbatical leave, 8-12/85.) Duties: undergraduate/graduate instruction and advisement; departmental, university and community service. Served as graduate coordinator (8/86-7/87). Other duties: Chair, General College Human Subjects Committee (8/82-5/85); Senator, Faculty Senate (8/86-5/87); Associate Member (8/79-5/81) to Member (6/81-7/87) of Graduate Faculty.
8/76 to 7/79: Assistant Professor of Sociology, East Texas State University. Duties: Undergraduate and graduate instruction and advisement; departmental, university and community service. Served on the following committees: Graduate Education Advisory Committee (8/77-7/79; Chair, 8/78-7/79); Committee on Policy and Procedure (Chair, 8/78-7/79). Other Duties: Member, Statistics Examination Committee, Federation of North Texas Area Universities; Associate Member of Graduate Faculty (8/76-7/79).
1/75 to 7/76: Visiting Instructor, The University of New Mexico; Research Associate, Criminal Justice Program, Institute for Social Research and Development, 1/75 to 7/75. Duties: Undergraduate instruction and community service. Other Duties: Designed, implemented and supervised surveys and official records data collection.
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate Graduate
Introduction to Criminal Justice Special Problems in Juvenile Delinquency
Criminal Justice Research Methods Graduate Research Methods
Advanced Topics in Criminal Justice Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
Research Methods Introduction to Sociological Inquiry
Deviance and the Law Research Literature and Techniques
Correctional Process Drugs and the Law
Juvenile Justice Organized Crime
Social Problems Juvenile Justice Systems
Introduction to Sociology Politics and Crime
Social Deviance Nature of Crime
Criminology Theory and Theory Construction
Seminar in Criminological Theory Thesis (M.A./M.C.J.)
Organized Crime Criminal Justice Internship
Judicial Process Police and Liability Issues
Upper-World Crime World CJ Systems (WebCT)
Nature of Crime Gangs and Public Policy (WebCT)
Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
THESES/DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED/SERVED ON COMMITTEE
Degree Directed Served on Committee
Masters 36 28
Doctorate 0 8
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
Principal Investigator, Processing Mapping of the New Mexico State Police Laboratory, DNA Section, State of New Mexico, Department of Public Safety, New Mexico State Police, Contract # 112153 ($52,000), July 2007-December 2008.
Principal Investigator, Youth Gang Attitudes, Orientations, and Outlooks: A Comparative Analysis of Adolescents in Five Nations, Department of Justice, International Division, Contract # 1704-257 ($20,000), 2006-2007.
Program Co-manager, Security Technology. Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation, RFP 7200 ($2,000,000), 1998-2000.
Principal Investigator, Security Technology: Criminal Justice Component, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ($356,052), 1999-2000.
Principal Investigator, Evaluating a DWI Night Drug Court. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, grant # 96-IJ-CX-0022 ($130,947), 1996-2000.
Principal Investigator, Peer and Parental Influence on Drug Use: A Study of Alcohol, Marijuana and Cocaine. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, grant #87-JN-CX- 0013 ($24,591), 1988.
Principal Investigator, American Jail-Death Rates: A Comparison of the 1978 and 1983 Jail Census Data. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Summer Research Fellowship Program, purchase order # OJP-85-M-385 ($10,000), 1985.
Senior Research Associate, The Nature and Extent of Delinquency in Louisiana Public Schools. Louisiana State Department of Education grant #136-15-4006 ($30,000), 1980-1981.
Research Associate, Criminal Justice Program, Institute for Social Research and Development, The University of New Mexico, grant #75-NI-06-0002 ($500,000), 1975.
HONORARIA
Alpha Kappa Delta National Sociological Honor Society, 1970.
Fellowship in Criminology and Deviant Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health, 1972-1974.
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982, 1984.
Who's Who in American Law, 1984, 2006, 2008.
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002, 2006, 2008
Who’s Who in America, 2002, 2004, 2006.
Who’s Who in Criminology, 2007.
Expert Witnesses: Criminologists in the Courtroom nominated for book award by
Criminology and Delinquency Section of Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1989.
Support for community policing versus traditional policing among nonmetropolitan police officers: A survey of four New Mexico police department. American Journal of Police, Volume 15, number 2, 1996, Highly Commended, Literati Club, 1997.
Recipient, Dennis W. Darnall Award for Excellence, New Mexico State University, 2003.
Recipient, International Programs Globalization Award 2006-2007, New Mexico State University, 2007.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Patrick R. Anderson and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. (eds.) Expert Witnesses: Criminologists in the Courtroom. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 237 pp., 1987
Howard Abadinsky and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Crime and Justice: An Introduction. Second Edition. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., 600 pp., 1992.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. and Howard Abadinsky. Understanding Crime: Theory and Practice. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., 421 pp., 1996.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Contemporary Corrections. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 462 pp., 1998.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Juvenile Justice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 432 pp., 2000.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Contemporary Corrections. 2nd edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 448 pp., 2002.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. and Howard Abadinsky. Understanding Crime: Theory and Practice. 2nd edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 378 pp., 2003.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Essentials of Corrections. 3rd edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 472 pp, 2005.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Juvenile Justice. 2nd edition. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 459 pp., 2006.
G. Larry Mays and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Essentials of Corrections. 4th edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, in press.
SELECTED REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES with at least 5 lifetime SSSI citation count (in parentheses)
Robert Balch, Curt T. Griffiths, Edwin L. Hall and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. The socialization of jurors: the voir dire as a rite of passage. Journal of Criminal Justice 4:271-83, 1976.[14]
Reprinted, pp. 206-213 in Douglas Koski (ed.), The Jury Trial in Criminal Justice. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003
Ted Bartell and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Recidivist impacts of differential sentencing practices for burglary suspects. Criminology 15:387-95, 1977.[8]
Reprinted, pp. 503-9 in Delos Kelly (ed.), Criminal Behavior: Readings in Criminology New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
Abstracted, pp. 224-6 in E. H. Zenoff and N. N. Kittrie (eds.), Sanctions, Sentences and Corrections Mineola: Foundation Press, 1981.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Harold E. Theis and Curt T. Griffiths. Drug use in rural America: a cross-cultural examination of complimentary social deviance theories. Youth and Society 12 (4):465-89, 1981.[10]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Richard Beasley and Karl Cary. The initiation and avoidance of drugs by adolescence in the Southwest. Journal of Drug Education 11(4):327-39, 1981.[5]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. and Curt T. Griffiths. Youth at risk: marijuana use among native American and Caucasian youth. The International Journal of the Addictions 18(1):53-70, 1983.[16]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. and Curt T. Griffiths. Social learning and adolescent drug use: a trend study of alcohol and marijuana use in a rural middle school. Rural Sociology 48(2):219-239, 1983.[13]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Peers, parents and adolescent drug use in a rural school district: a two-wave panel study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 14(6): 499-512, 1985.[13]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Toward understanding state-level jail mortality: correlates of death by suicide and natural causes, 1977 and 1982. Justice Quarterly 4(1): 51-71, 1987.[5]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Curt T. Griffiths and Christine S. Sellers. Social learning theory, drugs use, and American Indian youth: A cross-cultural test. Justice Quarterly 6(3):501-523, 1989.[10]
Reprinted pp. 150-167 in Ronald J. Berger (ed.), The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency, Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., 1996.
Christine S. Sellers and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Differential associations and definitions: A panel study of youthful drinking behavior. The International Journal of the Addictions 25(7):755-771, 1990.[9]
John W. Windhauser, Jennifer Seiter, and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Covering the roots of justice: Louisiana crime news in the 1980s. Journalism Quarterly 67(1):72-78, 1990.[7]
Barbara J. Peat and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Reducing the intra-institutional effects of prisonization: A study of a therapeutic community for drug-using inmates. Criminal Justice and Behavior 19(2):206-225, 1992.[8]
John D. Wooldredge and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. An aggregate-level study of inmate suicides and deaths due to natural causes in U.S. jails. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29(4):466-479, 1992.[7]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Kathy Fuller, Teresa Vigil, and G. Larry Mays The definition and measurement of 'gang status': Policy implications for juvenile justice. Juvenile and Family Court Journal 43(1):29-37, 1992.[18]
Reprinted pp. 22-33 in G. Larry Mays (ed.), Gangs and Gang Behavior. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., 1996.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Christine S. Sellers, and Dennis L. Clason. Social learning and deviance abstention: Toward understanding the reasons for initiating, quitting, and avoiding drugs. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9(1):101-124, 1993.[9]
Christine S. Sellers, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Curt T. Griffiths. Norm qualities and the law: A comparison of the legal attitudes of American Indian and Caucasian youth. Journal of Drug Issues 23(3):493-513, 1993.[7]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., G. Larry Mays, and Teresa Vigil-Backstrom. Youth gangs and incarcerated delinquents: Exploring the ties between gang membership, delinquency, and social learning theory. Justice Quarterly 11(2):229-255, 1994.[18]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Teresa Vigil-Backstrom, and G. Larry Mays. Social learning theory, self-reported delinquency, and youth gangs: A new twist on a general theory of crime and delinquency. Youth and Society 26(2):147-177, 1994.[25]
Reprinted pp. 55-80 in G. Larry Mays (ed.), Gangs and Gang Behavior. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., 1996.
Reprinted pp. 149-156 in Joseph G. Weis, Robert D. Crutchfield, and George S. Bridges (eds.), Juvenile Delinquency: Readings. 2nd ed. Boston: Pine Forge Press, 1999.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., G. Larry Mays, Joan E. Crowley, and Barbara J. Peat. Drug history and prisonization: Toward understanding variations in inmate institutional adaptations. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 38:281-95, 1994.[10]
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Finn-Aage Esbensen, and D. Wayne Osgood. Evaluating a school-based gang-prevention program: A theoretical perspective. Evaluation Review 20:181-203, 1996.[5]
L. Thomas, Winfree, Jr., and Frances P. Bernat. Social learning, self control and substance abuse by eighth grade students: A tale of two cities. Journal of Drug Issues 28(2):539-58, 1998.[28]
Finn-Aage Esbensen and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Race and gender differences between gang and non-gang youths: Results of a multi-site survey. Justice Quarterly 15(3):505-26, 1998.[16]
Reprinted in Chris W. Eskridge (ed.), Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues. 3rd edition. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 1999.
Reprinted in Malcolm W. Klein, Cheryl L. Maxson, and Jody Miller (eds.), The Modern Gang Reader. 2nd edition. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2001.
Reprinted in Arlen Egley Jr., Cheryl L. Maxson, Jody Miller, and Malcolm W. Klein (eds.), The Modern Gang Reader. 3rd edition. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co. 2006.
Finn-Aage Esbensen, Elizabeth Piper Deschenes, and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Differences between gang girls and gang boys: Results from a multi-site survey. Youth and Society 31:27-53, 1999.[20]
Reprinted in Rebecca Petersen (ed)., Understanding Contemporary Gangs in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Greg Newbold. Community policing and the New Zealand Police: Correlates of attitudes and orientations toward the work world in a community-oriented national police organization. Policing 22(4):589-617, 1999.[9]
Finn-Aage Esbensen, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Ni He, and Terrance J. Taylor. Youth gangs and definitional issues: When is a gang a gang, and why does it matter. Crime & Delinquency 47(1): 105-130, 2001.[11]
Reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice edited by Thomas C. Calhoun and Constance L. Chapple. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Reprinted in American Youth Gangs at the Millennium, edited by Finn-Aage Esbensen, Stephen G. Tibbetts, and Larry Gaines. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press., Inc., 2004.
Terrence J. Taylor, K.B. Turner, Finn-Aage Esbensen, and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Coppin’ an attitude: Attitudinal preferences among juveniles toward police. Journal of Criminal Justice 29(3):295-305, 2001.[7]
MOST RECENT REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Elizabeth K. Butler, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Greg Newbold. Policing and gender: Male and female perspectives among members of the New Zealand Police. Police Quarterly 6(3):298-329, 2003.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. New Zealand Police and restorative justice philosophy, Crime & Delinquency 50(2):189-213, 2004.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Terrance J. Taylor. Rural, small town, and metropolitan police in New Zealand: Differential outlooks on policing within a unified police organization. Policing 27(2):241-263, 2004.
Terrance J. Taylor and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Strangers in a not-so-strange land: A response to Goddard and Jaeger. Policing, 28(4):662-669, 2005.
Shanhe Jiang, and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Social support, gender, and inmate adjustment to prison life: Insights from a national sample. Prison Journal, 86(1):32-55, 2006.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Terrance J. Taylor, Ni He, and Finn-Aage Esbsensen. Self-control and variability over time: Multivariate results from a five-year, multi-site panel of youth. Crime & Delinquency, 52(2):253-286, 2006.
Rick Ruddell and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Setting aside criminal convictions in Canada – A successful approach to offender reintegration. Prison Journal 86(4):1-18, 2006.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Dennis M. Giever, James R. Maupin, and G. Larry Mays “Drunk driving and the prediction of analogous behavior: A longitudinal test of social learning and self-control theories.” Victims & Offenders 2:327-349, 2007.
[NOTE: Italicized authors are former students.]
MOST RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS
Christine S. Sellers, John K. Cochran, and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Social learning theory and courtship violence: An empirical test. Chapter 5 in Ronald Akers and Gary Jensen (eds.), Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 11. Piscataway, NJ: Transactions Publishers, 2002.
L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Peacemaking and community harmony: Lessons (and Admonitions) from the Navajo Peacemaking Courts. Chapter 14 in Elmar Weitekamp and Hans-Juergen Kerner (eds.), Restorative Justice: Theoretical Foundations. Devon, UK: Willam Publishing, 2003.
Adrienne Freng and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. Exploring race and ethnic differences in a sample of middle school gang members. In Finn-Aage Esbensen, Larry Gaines, and Steve Tibbetts (eds.), American Youth Gangs at the Millennium. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland, 2004.
Total Social Sciences Citation count = 374
Total First/Sole Author = 259 (69%)