Inside Look

He was a “terrible” high school student – “lucky to get C’s” in most of his classes – and detested the regimentation and busywork.

EKU Professor Peter Kraska received the Academy of Criminal Justice Science’s Police Section Award for his 25 years of research and writing on police militarization. His academic work has been cited in the literature over a thousand times, and he has served on numerous state and federal level police reform commissions. When asked about receiving this prestigious award Dr.

Shannon D. Williams, a full-time Instructor in the School of Justice Studies, completed all requirements for a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Tennessee. His dissertation, titled, “A Contribution to the Critique of Labor Share Analyses,” followed up on his earlier research published in the prestigious Cambridge Journal of Economics (2015).

The EKU College of Justice and Safety School of Justice Studies would like to congratulate Dr. Travis Linnemann, awarded Critical Criminologist of the Year; and Dr. Judah Schept, Best Book Award for Progressive Punishment, from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice.