
chris eskridge.
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Chris Eskridge currently serves as the Director of the American Society of Criminology, and as Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska.
He took his Ph.D. in public administration from Ohio State University in 1978. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at the University of Nebraska in that same year, he worked in the Economic Crime Unit of the Utah Attorney General's Office, as a Legislative Aide in the Utah House of Representatives, and as an Investigator in the Utah County Attorney's Office. He also worked in the area of private security and university security.
He has authored/edited four books, given more than 200 professional papers/presentation in some two dozen countries, and has more than 60 professional publications. He has also received numerous teaching awards. He has served as a Research Associate for the U.S. Air Force at the Maxwell AFB in Alabama, as a Fellow/Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, serving as a Visiting Professor of Law at Silliman University in the Philippines.
Professor Eskridge currently serves as the General Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, as a member of the Editorial Board of the Baltic Criminological Review, the Turkish Journal of Criminology, and the Asian Journal of Criminology, as a delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and as a member of the Academic Review Committee of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is also the Director of Research for the University of Nebraska Strength and Conditioning Program.
He holds two honorary positions: Research Professor of Law at the University of Central Venezuela in Caracas, and Professor of Law at San Martin de Porres University in Lima, Peru.