Thomas O'Connor

Associate Professor

Criminal Justice

“I'm just another guy making the world a better place one academic publication at a time.”

Ph.D. Criminology Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania

M.A. Criminal Justice University of Illinois

B.A. Anthropology/Sociology Knox College

Former Corrections Counselor, Community Mental Health Therapist, Adviser to the Military and Intelligence Community

Terrorism, Global Security, International Law

2019 Global Security, First Edition. San Diego: Cognella.

2019 Constitutional Law: Interpretations. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt.

2018 "The Criminology of Terrorism" in Terrorism in America 2nd ed. Borgeson, Kevin & Robin Valeri (eds). New York: Routledge.

2017 Bringing Terrorists to Justice, 2e. Delhi: IA Books.

2012 "Cult Crimes" in Opposing Viewpoints Gale/Cengage.

2012 "Supermaxes South of the Border" in The Globalization of Supermax Prisons. Rutgers Univ. Press.

2011 Accounting Forensics and White Collar Crime. Delhi: IA Books.

2010 "The Neurology of Crime and Violence" Whitepaper STRATCOM.

2009 "Compstat" Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. Santa Monica: Sage.

2006 "Transnational Cross-Border Crime" Journal of Institute of Justice and International Studies

2005 "Victimization Prevention and Protection" Encyclopedia of Criminology. NY: Routledge.

1994 "The Neofunctional Model of Crime Control" in Varieties of Criminology. Westport: Praeger.