Dr. Pete Kraska
- Chair of Graduate Program/Professor
Contact Information
- Department: School of Justice Studies
- Office: Stratton 466
- Email: peter.kraska@eku.edu
- Phone: 622-1980
- Mailing Address: Stratton 467
Bio
Dr. Pete Kraska is Professor and Graduate Program Director. He has distinguished himself as a leading scholar in the areas of criminal justice theory, criminal justice militarization, and research methods. He has published seven books including Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Theorizing Criminal Justice: Eight Essential Orientations, and Militarizing The American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and Police. Dr. Kraska’s research has also been published in a number of leading journals, including Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, and Policing and Society.
His recent research interests include making theoretical sense of the emergence of underground cage-fighting, the trend to criminalize risky and negligent behaviors as an adaptation to late-modern social conditions, and a continuation of study into the blurring distinction between criminal justice and the military in the wars on drugs and terrorism.
Dr. Kraska’s work has received national and international attention. His research has been featured in media outlets such as The Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, Peter Jennings’s World News Tonight, and the Jim Lerher News Hour.
Frequently Requested Articles
- Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing: Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic
- Militarization and Policing—Its Relevance to 21st Century Police
- Criminal Justice Theory: Toward Legitimacy and an Infrastructure
- Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units
- Militarizing Mayberry and Beyond: Making Sense of American Paramilitary Policing
- Enjoying Militarism: Political/Personal Dilemmas in Studying U.S. Police Paramilitary Units
- Moving Beyond our Methodological Default: A Case for Mixed Methods
Books
- Criminal Justice Research Methods
- Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System
Courses
| Subject | Title | Time | Location | Term |
| COR 812 | Leading w/Pol. Eth. Emot Intel | Internet Classes SITE | Spring 2013 | |
| COR 818 | Methods in Corr/Juv Justice | Internet Classes SITE | Spring 2013 | |
| CRJ 898 | Thesis I | Spring 2013 | ||
| GRD 897A | MS Corr/JJ Stud Written Comp | Spring 2013 | ||
| GRD 897B | MS Crim Justice Written Comp | Spring 2013 | ||
| GRD 898A | MS Corr/JJ Studies Oral Comp | Spring 2013 |
