Non-Resident Scholar, Criminology
Northern Arizona University
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Dr. Neil Websdale is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and Principal Project Advisor to and former director of the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative. He has published work on domestic violence, the history of crime, policing, social change, and public policy. Dr. Websdale has published four books including: Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography (Sage), 1998, which won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award (1999); Understanding Domestic Homicide (Northeastern University Press), 1999; Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control (Aldine, co-edited with Jeff Ferrell), 1999; and, Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing (Northeastern University Press), 2001, winner of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award (2002) and the Gustavus-Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Award (2002). He is currently working on a book titled Familicidal Hearts, due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
His social policy work consists of helping establish a national network of domestic violence fatality review teams. He has also worked on issues related to community policing, full faith and credit, and a number of other community justice initiatives.
Dr. Websdale trained as a sociologist at the University of London, England and currently lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.