Methamphetamine: Its History, Pharmacology and Treatment. (2009). with William L. White. Center City, MN: Hazelden Press.

Crime and Policing in Rural and Small-Town America. (2006, 3rd Edition). with L. Edward Wells and David N. Falcone. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Pursuing Justice. (2004). with Frank Morn. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Domestic Marijuana: A Neglected Industry. (1992). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company.

Order Under Law. (2002, 6th edition). co-edited with Robert G. Culbertson. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective. (2000, 4th edition). co-edited with Robert G. Culbertson. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Drugs, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System. (1990). an edited book of original contributions for Anderson Publishing Company as part of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences book series, Issues in Crime and Justice.

Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice. (1988). with Sue Mahan. Anderson Publishing Company.

"Making Methamphetamine." Southern Rural Sociology. 23:2:78-107. 2008

"Deadly Violence in the Heartland: Comparing Homicide Patterns in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Counties." (with L. Edward Wells). Homicide Studies. 9:1:55-80. 2005.

“Methamphetamine in the Heartland: A Review and Initial Exploration.” (with Jason Fuller). Journal of Crime and Justice. 27:1:131-151. 2004.

“Patterns of Rural and Urban Crime: A County-Level Comparison.” (with L. Edward Wells). Criminal Justice Review. 29:1:1-22. 2004

"The Small-Town Police Department." Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. (with David N. Falcone and L. Edward Wells). 25:2:371-384. 2002.

"Perceptions of Gangs as a Problem in Nonmetropolitan Areas. (with L. Edward Wells). Criminal Justice Review. 26:2:170-192. 2001.

"Gang Problems in Non-Metropolitan Areas: A Longitudinal Assessment." (with L. Edward Wells). Justice Quarterly. 18:4:791-823. 2001.

"Getting Down to Business: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Probationers and Probation Sentences." (with David E. Olson and Thomas Ellsworth). Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 17:1:4-18. 2001.

"The public health approach to illicit drugs." (with John M. Klofas). Criminal Justice Review. 23:2:197-207. 1998

"The future of crime in rural America." (with L. Edward Wells). Journal of Crime and Justice. 22:1:1-26. 1999.

"The supervision and treatment of offenders on probation: Understanding rural and urban differences." (with Thomas Ellsworth). The Prison Journal. 77:2:209-228. 1997.

"Rural crime and justice: Implications for theory and research." (with L. Edward Wells). Crime and Delinquency. 42:3:379-397. 1996.

"Community policing in small town and rural America." (with L. Edward Wells and David N. Falcone). Crime and Delinquency. 40:4:549-567. 1994.

Reprinted in Mark Pogrebin (Ed.). Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice. 2003. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Reprinted in Robert G. Culbertson & Ralph A. Weisheit (Eds.). Order Under Law. (5th Edition). 1997. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Reprinted in William B. Head (Ed.). Criminal Justice Readings: Classic and Contemporary. Stamford, CT: Thompson Learning.

"Studying drugs in rural areas: Notes from the field." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 30:2:213-232. 1993.

Reprinted in Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III (Eds.). Criminal Justice: Contemporary Literature in Theory and Practice, Volume 2, Drug Use and Drug Policy. 1997. New York: Garland Press.

"Exploring the dimensions of support for decriminalizing drugs." (with Kathrine Johnson). The Journal of Drug Issues. 22:1:53-73. 1992.

"The social status of DUI offenders." (with John M. Klofas). The International Journal of the Addictions. 27:7:793-816. 1992.

"The intangible rewards from crime: The case of domestic marijuana cultivation." Crime and Delinquency. 37:4:506-527. 1991.

Reprinted in Peter & Patricia Adler (Eds.). Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction. 1994. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

"Drug use among domestic marijuana growers." Contemporary Drug Problems. 18:2:191-217. 1991.

"Does the American experience with alcohol prohibition generalize to marijuana?" (with Beverly Smith and Kathrine Johnson). The American Journal of Criminal Justice. 16:2:1-64. 1991.

"Domestic marijuana growers: Mainstreaming deviance." Deviant Behavior. 11:2:107-129. 1990.

"The impact of jail: Collateral costs and affective response." (with John M. Klofas). Journal of Offender Counseling, Services and Rehabilitation. 14:1:51-65. 1989.

"Juvenile justice and the demise of parens patriae." (with Diane M. Alexander). Federal Probation. 52:4:56-63. 1988.

Reprinted in Chris W. Eskridge (Ed.). Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues. 1993. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Co. (also reprinted in the 2nd edition, 1996).

Reprinted in Paul M. Sharp (Ed.). Criminal Justice in America: Theory, Practice, and Policy. (1996). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Also to be printed in the second edition scheduled for publication in 2000.

"Changing age pattern of U.S. male and female suicide rates." (with Mark C. Stafford). Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 18:2:149-163. 1988.

"The pernicious promise of prevention in the classroom: Should alcohol education programs be expected to reduce drinking by youth?" (with Ronald H. Hopkins, Armand L. Mauss and Kathleen A. Kearney). The Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 49:1:51-61. 1988.

"Comprehensive evaluation of a model alcohol education curriculum." (with Ronald H. Hopkins, Armand L. Mauss and Kathleen A. Kearney). The Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 49:1:38-50. 1988.

"Women in the state police: Concerns of male and female officers." Journal of Police Science and Administration. 15:2:137-144. 1987.

"Guilty but mentally ill: Reform of the insanity defense in Illinois." (with John M. Klofas). Justice Quarterly. 4:1:39-50. 1987.

"Pleading Guilty But Mentally Ill: Adversarial justice and mental health." (with John M. Klofas). The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 9:4:491-501. 1986.

"When mothers kill their children." The Social Science Journal. 23:4:439-448. 1986.

"Sex differences in the jail population: Competing explanations." Criminal Justice Review. 10:1:47-51. 1985.

"Trends in programs for female offenders: The use of private agencies as service providers." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 29:1:35-42. 1985.

"Female homicide offenders: Trends over time in an institutionalized population." Justice Quarterly. 1:4:471-489. 1984.

"Self-generated identification codes for anonymous collection of longitudinal questionnaire data." (with Kathleen A. Kearney, Ronald H. Hopkins and Armand L. Mauss). Public Opinion Quarterly. 48:1:370-378. 1984.

"Women and crime: Issues and perspectives." Sex Roles. 11:7/8:567-581. 1984.

"Ranking journals." (with Robert M. Regoli). Scholarly Publishing. 15:4:313-325. 1984.

"Alcohol and drug abuse prevention: Implications for delinquency prevention." Journal of Drug Issues. 14:3:469-477. 1984.

"The school as a setting for primary prevention." (with Ronald H. Hopkins, Kathleen A. Kearney and Armand L. Mauss). Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 30:1:27-35. 1984.

"Substance abuse, nonconformity, and the inability to assign problem responsibility." (with Ronald H. Hopkins, Kathleen A. Kearney and Armand L. Mauss). Journal of Drug Issues. 12:2:72-81. 1983.

"Sample bias resulting from a requirement for written parental consent." (with Kathleen A. Kearney, Ronald H. Hopkins, and Armand L. Mauss). Public Opinion Quarterly. 47:96-102. 1983.

"The social context of alcohol and drug education: Implications for program evaluation." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 29:1:72-81. 1983.

"Drugs and the criminal justice system." forthcoming in 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook. J. Mitchell Miller (Ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: Sage.

"War crimes: International responses to genocide." forthcoming in Comparative and International Policing, Justice, and Transnational Crime. Sesha Kethineni (Ed.). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

"Change and continuity in crime and justice in rural America." Pages 309-357 in Crime and Justice 2000, Volume 1 – The Nature of Crime: Continuity and Change. Washington, D.C.: The National Institute of Justice. 2000.

"Marijuana subcultures: Studying crime in rural America." Pages 178-203 in Ethnography at the Edge: Deviance, Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. by Jeff Ferrell and Mark S. Hamm (Editors). Northeastern University Press. 1998.

"The state of community policing in small towns and rural areas." (with Carl Hawkins) Pages 19-25 in Community Policing in Rural Settings: Organizational Change and Innovation. by Quint Thurman and Edmund McGarrell (Editors). Anderson Publishing Company. 1997.

"What the future holds for community policing in rural settings." (with Steven Kernes) Pages 123-133 in Community Policing in Rural Settings: Organizational Change and Innovation. by Quint Thurman and Edmund McGarrell (Editors). Anderson Publishing Company. 1997.

"Drugs and crime: What if . . ." Pages 228-250 in Criminal Justice in the Year 2010. John M. Klofas and Stan Stojkovic (Editors). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks-Cole Publishing Company. 1995.

"Structural correlates of female homicide." Pages 191-206 in Anna Victoria Wilson. (Editor). Homicide: The Victim-Offender Connection. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company. 1993.

"Patterns of female crime." Pages 53-65 in Order Under Law. (3rd Edition) Robert G. Culbertson and Ralph A. Weisheit (Editors). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 1988. Revised for the 4th Edition, published 1992.

"Declaring a 'civil' war on drugs." Pages 1-12 in Drugs, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System. Ralph A. Weisheit (Editor). Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company. 1990.

"Drugs on the farm: Marijuana as a cash crop." Pages 17-35 in James N. Gilbert (Editor). Criminal Investigation: Essays, Readings, and Cases. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill. 1990.

"Problems facing women in local jails." (with Lesley I. Parsons). Pages 101-114 in David Kalinich and John Klofas (Editors). Sneaking Inmates Down the Alley: Problems and Prospects in Jail Managment. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. 1986.

"Contemporary issues in the prevention of adolescent alcohol abuse." Pages 253-266 in David A. Ward (Editor). Alcoholism: Introduction to Theory and Treatment. (2nd Edition). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing. 1983.

"Rural Crime." (forthcoming) in Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. Bonnie S. Fisher and Steven P. Lab (Eds.). Santa Barbara, CA: Sage.

"Marijuana." in Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and the People. Gary Goreham, Editor. (2nd Edition). Pages 601-604. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (2008).

"Rural and Small-Town Law Enforcement." (with L. Edward Wells and David N. Falcone) An essay for the Encyclopedia of Police Science, 3rd Edition. Volume 2 J-Z, pp. 1143-1146. (2006). Routledge Publishing.

"Rural Police." An essay for the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Volume 1: State and Local. (2005). Larry E. Sullivan and Marie Simonetti Rosen (Eds.). Pages 411-412, Sage Publishing.

"Rural Violence." (1999). Pages 71-74. in The Encyclopedia of Violence in the United States. Volume 3, Charles Schribner & Sons.

"The Future of Crime in Rural America." with L. Edward Wells. An essay for The Compiler, a quarterly publication of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Volume 17, Number 4 (Spring 1998), pages 8-10,18.

"Marijuana in Rural America." (1997) Pages 442-446 in Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Crime and Justice in Rural and Small Town America. (1995) (monograph). with L. Edward Wells and David N. Falcone. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.

"Rural Crime: Setting a Research and Policy Agenda: Survey of Rural Police Needs." Exerpted from a paper presented to the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Published in CJ the Americas, February-March 1995, 8:1:7.

"Rural Crime and Rural Policing: An Overview of Selected Issues." (with David N. Falcone and L. Edward Wells). Published as part of the "Research In Action" series by the National Institute of Justice, October 1994. An earlier version was printed as a special issue of Roll Call, the newsletter of the National Sheriffs' Association. November 1993.

"Challenging the Criminalizers." The Criminologist. 15:4:1, 3-5. 1990.

Kathleen Daly's Gender, Crime and Punishment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. in The Criminologist. 20:3:16. 1995.

Mark Hamm's American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime. Westport, CT: Praeger. in Justice Quarterly. 11:1:155-158. 1994.

Christina Jacqueline Johns' Power, Ideology, and the War on Drugs: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure. Westport, CT: Praeger. in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. 17:1:121-124. 1993.

James A. Inciardi's The War on Drugs II. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1992. Justice Quarterly. 9:3:533-536. 1992

James A. Inciardi's (Editor). The Drug Legalization Debate. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. 1990. in The American Journal of Police. 11:2:105-108. 1992.

Jean Harris' They Always Call us Ladies: Stories from Prison. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons. in Corrections Today. 50:7:130-131. 1988.

Bernard Segal's (Editor). Perspectives on Drug Use in the United States. New York: Haworth Press. 1986. in Corrections Today. 49:4:127-128. 1987.

Michael Philip Roche's Rural Police and Rural Youth. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1985. in Justice Quarterly. 4:3:489-492. 1987.

Ronald B. Flowers' Women and Criminality: The Woman as Victim, Offender, and Practitioner. New York: Greenwood Press. 1987. in Criminal Justice and Behavior. 15:2:264-266. 1988.

Francis T. Cullen's Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Allenheld. 1983. in Justice Quarterly. 3:1:107-109. 1986.

2008-present: Franklin County, IL. "Methamphetamine Project." Evaluation of an innovative program to treat adolescent methamphetamine users. ($10,000/year continuing).

2007-2008: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. "Methamphetamine and Violence in Illinois." Interview study of the link between methamphetamine and violence in 3 Illinois counties with the highest number of methamphetamine arrests. ($70,983).

2004: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. “The Impact of Methamphetamine on Illinois Communities: An Ethnography.” An ethnographic study of the impact of methamphetamine on two rural counties in Illinois. ($5,000).

2002: McLean County Public Defender's Office. "Change of Venue Survey." A telephone survey of residents of two counties to be utilized in a motion for a change of venue. ($5,000).

1999-2000: National Institute of Justice. "Gangs in Rural America." A 12-month study of rural gangs using interviews with rural police, and analyzing merged data from the National Youth Gang Survey, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the Uniform Crime Reports to better understand the nature, extent and correlates of rural gang activities. ($68,200)

1999-2000: Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. "Assessing the Needs of Rural Police, II." A nine-month replication and elaboration of the 1995 survey in which rural sheriffs and police chiefs are surveyed regarding their problems and needs. ($20,000)

1995-1996: Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. "Assessing the Needs of Rural Police." A six-month study in which rural sheriffs and police chiefs were surveyed regarding their problems and needs. ($9,950)

1993-1994: National Institute of Justice. "Policing in Rural Areas." Two-year study of rural crime and rural police based on interviews, focus groups, surveys, and the re-analysis of existing data. ($248,600)

1988-1990: National Institute of Justice. "Marijuana as a Cash Crop: A study of Deviant Farmers." Two-year study based on interviews with people arrested for growing enough marijuana that they were probably commercial growers. ($137,000).

1989: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. (co-investigator with Dr. John Klofas). "Jailing Traffic and DUI Offenders: Trends from 1972-1988." Secondary analysis of national survey of jail inmates comparing traffic offenders with other jail inmates on a variety of characteristics. ($21,100).

1985-1986: Illinois State Board of Education. (co-investigator with Dr. John Klofas). "Meeting the Needs of Jail Inmates." A study of jail inmate needs and potential resources for meeting those needs. ($24,900).

1991-1992: Illinois State University. "Developing a Typology of Marijuana Growing Cultures." Interview study of officials and citizens in areas of Missouri with high rates of marijuana cultivation to compare social environment with that in Illinois and Kentucky growing regions. ($4,000).

1989-1990: Illinois State University. "Decriminalizing Marijuana." Survey study of Illinois criminal justice officials to determine views regarding the decriminalizing of marijuana. ($1,000).

1988-1989: Illinois State University. "Marijuana As A Cash Crop: A Case Study." Interview study of a farmer caught growing marijuana. ($2,500).

1987-1988: Illinois State University. "Determinates of Female Homicide Patterns." Use of census and FBI Homicide File data sets to account for variations in female homicide among states. ($4,000).

1986-1987: Illinois State University. (co-investigator with Dr. Frank Morn). "Women in the State Police." Survey study of women as patrol officers in the Illinois State Police. ($7,100).

1985-1986: Illinois State University. (co-investigator with Dr. John Klofas). "Guilty But Mentally Ill: Reform of the Insanity Defense in Illinois." Interview and survey study of the use of the Guilty But Mentally Ill statute in Illinois. ($9,000).

1983-1984: Illinois State University. "Female Homicide Offenders in Illinois." A trend study of female homicide offenders at the Dwight Correctional Facility for Women, 1940-1983. ($2,630).

1997-1998: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' 1998 meeting.

1995: Appointed to the Task Force on Police for the American Society of Criminology. The five-member task force developed a position paper for the U.S. Attorney General, which was presented to her in person by the chair of the task force.

1995: Appointed to the Task Force on Drugs for the American Society of Criminology. The three-member task force developed a position paper for the U.S. Attorney General, which was presented to her in person by the chair of the task force.

1994-1995: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1991-1992: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1989-1990: Member of the annual meeting program committee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1989-1990: Member of the Affirmative Action Committee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1986-1987: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1985-1986: Chairman of the Student Paper Awards Committee for the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

1983-1984: Member of the Student Paper Awards Committee for the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

1982-1983: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

1981-1982: Member of the annual meeting program committee for The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Series Editor for ACJS/Anderson Monograph Series in Criminal Justice
—1990-1994

Deputy Editor
— Journal of Crime and Justice 2003-2005

Editorial Advisory Board
— Women and Criminal Justice 1997-present
— Journal of Crime and Justice 1991-1995, 1998-2000

Associate Editor
— The Social Science Journal 1984-1986
— Justice Quarterly 1993-1995

Manuscript Reviewer
— Journal of Crime and Justice 1985-present
— Youth and Society 1982-present
— Justice Quarterly 1985-present
— Criminal Justice and Behavior 1986-present
— Women and Criminal Justice 1989-present
— Criminal Justice Policy Review 1989-present
— American Journal of Police 1995-present

This listing represents selected examples of either media coverage of my work or of my cited contribution to a story appearing in the media. In general, local newspaper and radio coverage have not been included in this listing.

2002
– Cited in New York Times article on rural bank robberies.
– Cited in LA Times article on rural bank robberies
1998
– Appeared in the PBS Frontline documentary "Busted: America's War on Drugs."
1996
– The Christian Science Monitor cited my survey of rural and small-town police agencies in a story about the problem of drugs in rural areas.
– The Associated Press wrote a feature story about our research on rural crime and rural policing.
– I appeared on the television news program "60 Minutes" in a story about marijuana cultivation.
– I was interviewed about rural crime for the live call-in radio program "RFD Today," a syndicated program sponsored by the Farm Bureau.
1995
– Our work on rural crime and rural policing was cited heavily in a half-page story in USA Today.
– Appeared on the live television talk show "America's Talking" on the CNBC network to talk about rural crime issues and to answer caller questions.
– My work on marijuana growing was featured in an article in the magazine Chicago Reader.
– Our work on rural crime was cited heavily in an article in Police magazine.
– I appeared on a morning talk radio program on KMOX in St. Louis to talk about rural violence.
– I appeared live on the Liz Wilde call-in radio program on WLUP in Chicago to talk about my research and my book on domestic marijuana growers.
1994
– Interviewed and then cited in an article on marijuana growers that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly magazine.

2003: Served as co-moderator of discussion panel organized by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to provide a forum for police administrators in Illinois to consider their response to legislation intended to monitor racial profiling in traffic stops.

2003: Gave the keynote address to the Southern Criminal Justice Association. The address was titled "Why Rural Matters."

2002-present: Member of the Illinois Substance Abuse Monitoring Network, organized by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse to facilitate the exchange of information and research related to drug abuse in Illinois.

1998: Provided a block of training on "The Rural Environment" to small town police chiefs and rural sheriffs in Maryland for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute. October 1.

1998: Gave a presentation on the public health approach to drug policy to the annual meeting of the Justice Research and Statistics Association in San Diego, CA. September 17.

1998: Presented two sessions ("Community Policing in Small Towns and Rural Areas" and "Challenges to Community Policing in Small Towns and Rural Areas") with Carl W. Hawkins at the Police/Community Partnerships in Small Towns and Rural Areas training conference for rural police and citizens in Dubuque, IA, July 16-17, sponsored by the Upper Midwest Regional Community Policing Institute and the Institute for Public Safety Partnerships.

1998: Moderated a telecourse broadcast to law enforcement officers around the country. The program was titled "Crime Today: Problems, Perspectives & Community Policing Solutions." It was sponsored by the Regional Community Policing Institute of St. Petersburg Junior College and was held on May 28.

1998: Organizing the Spring Conference sponsored by the Department of Criminal Justice at Illinois State University, April, 1998 (with Thomas Ellsworth). (Topic: Juvenile Offenders in the Criminal Justice System).

1998: Provided a block of training on "The Rural Environment" to small town police chiefs and rural sheriffs in Maryland for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute. March 24.

1998: Served as a technical reviewer of grants for the National Institute of Justice.

1997 to present: Serve as consultant and member of the National Advisory Committee to the Institute for Public Safety Partnerships which is a federally funded institute to provide training, technical assistance, and evaluation expertise to local police agencies and to facilitate the adoption of community policing by those agencies.

1997: Served as a technical reviewer of grants for the National Institute of Justice.

1997: Organizing the Spring Conference sponsored by the Department of Criminal Justice at Illinois State University, April, 1997. (Topic: Treating Drug Offenders in the Criminal Justice System).

1996: Served as a technical reviewer of grants for the National Institute of Justice.

1996: Provided technical assistance to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glencoe, GA. I took part in a curriculum conference to develop a course on "Small-Town and Rural Community Policing."

1996 to present: Serve on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Illinois State Police.

1996: Served as a reviewer and conducted site visits to determine the winners of the "1996 Community Policing Awards" for police departments in North Carolina. The award was sponsored by the North Carolina Cop-Link Project.

1996: Keynote speaker for the annual "Marijuana Grow Detection and Investigation School" sponsored by the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice. (July).

1995: Gave a presentation "Needs and Problems of Small-Town Police" to the annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Miami, Florida (October).

1995: Gave a presentation "Comparing and Contrasting Violence in Rural and Urban Schools" to the fall conference of the Illinois Council of Administrators of Special Education in Niles, Illinois. (October)

1995: Served as a technical reviewer of grants for the National Institute of Justice.

1995: Gave a presentation entitled "Community Policing in Rural Environments" for a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C. (July)

1995: Organized a roundtable and gave a presentation entitled "Concerns of Rural Police: Setting Priorities" for the Annual Meeting of the National Sheriff's Association in San Antonio, Texas. (June)

1995: Prepared a poster entitled "The Complexities of Rural Violence" for a poster session at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. (March)

1994: Gave a presentation at a roundtable on "Issues in Rural Policing" (with L. Edward Wells and David N. Falcone) at the Midwest Criminal Justice Association's Annual meeting in Chicago, IL. (September)

1994: Organized a roundtable and gave a presentation entitled "When Is Rural Policing Community Policing" for the Annual Meeting of the National Sheriff's Association in Pittsburgh, PA. (June)

1994: Keynote speaker at the Violence Prevention Conference sponsored by St. Vincent College in LaTrobe, PA. Also ran two workshops on issues in rural violence.

1994: Provided technical assistance to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glencoe, GA. I took part in a curriculum conference to develop a course on rural drug enforcement. I also taught a two and one-half block titled "Rural Culture " for the pilot implementation of the curriculum.

1993: Organized a panel and gave a presentation on crime and policing in small rural communities for the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in St. Louis, MO.

1993: Gave an invited presentation on community policing in rural areas at a conference "Community Policing for Safe Neighborhoods" sponsored by the National Institute of Justice.

1993: Gave an invited presentation on drugs in rural areas at a conference "Evaluating Crime and Drug Control Strategies" sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

1993: Served as a technical reviewer of grants for the National Institute of Justice.

1993: Organized a roundtable and gave a presentation entitled "Rural Crime and Rural Policing" for the Annual Meeting of the National Sheriff's Association in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This workshop was videotaped and shown in two one-hour segments on the LETN (Law Enforcement Training Network), a sattelite service available to police department around the country. LETN programming provides information and training specifically aimed at police departments.

1991: Participated in a videotaped discussion of drugs and crime as part of the "Crime and Justice Series" of films sponsored by Eastern Kentucky University, which are designed for classroom and training purposes.

1990: Invited panel member at conference on "Police and Community Responses to Drugs" organized by the University of Illinois-Chicago. (Panel: The Drug War: Are We Winning or Losing?).

1989: Organized Spring Conference sponsored by the Department of Criminal Justice at Illinois State University. (Topic: Racism and the Criminal Justice System).

1987: Conducted a workshop on "What is a Needs Assessment?" for the Illinois Association of Police Planners.

1987: Conducted a workshop on "The Process of Publishing" for faculty in the College of Applied Science and Technology at Illinois State University.

1986-1988: Member of the McLean County Jail Review Committee which monitors jail conditions and makes policy recommendations.

1984-1986: Member of the John Howard Association, a prison reform association which visits prisons and monitors conditions there.

1986: Conducted a workshop on "Women and Crime" for the Illinois Council on Family Relations.

1986: Organized a Spring Conference sponsored by the Department of Criminal Justice at Illinois State University. (Topic: Drugs and Crime).

1994: Academy Fellow Award. Given each year to one member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his or her contributions to scholarship and teaching.

1989: Outstanding University Researcher at Illinois State University. University-wide competitive award for research and publications while at Illinois State University.

1987: Outstanding College Researcher. College-wide competitive award for research and publications while at Illinois State University.

1987: Research Initiative Award. University-wide competition for research and publications as a new faculty member at Illinois State University.