Richard Tewksbury, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University
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Office Number: (502) 852-0379
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Dr. Tewksbury's Vita

Dr. Richard Tewksbury is Professor of Justice Administration. His research is in two areas: institutional corrections and sexuality/alternative-lifestyles. Dr. Tewksbury is also the Research Director for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. His correctional research interests include sex offenders and community responses to sex offenses/offenders, correctional programming evaluation, and institutional violence. In regards to sexuality/alternative-lifestyles Dr. Tewksbury’s research centers on issues of men’s sexuality, the structure and processes of casual sexual encounters and sexual lifestyle alternatives.. Dr. Tewksbury has published extensively on these issues, and has published a number of books on a wide range of criminal justice and deviance issues. His books include Sexual Deviance, Controversies in Criminal Justice Research Methods, Criminological Theory, Introduction to Corrections, Qualitative Research Methods and Dynamics of Inequality. Dr. Tewksbury is the recipient of the 2005 Southern Criminal Justice Association’s Educator of the Year Award and the 2006 Peter P. Lejin’s Correctional Research Award from the American Correctional Association. Dr. Tewksbury is also the former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and a Past-President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Dr. Tewksbury holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University.