Gennaro F Vito — Criminal Justice

About

Gennaro F. Vito is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. He also serves as a faculty member in the Administrative Officer’s Course at the Southern Police Institute where he offers a course on criminal justice leadership (CJ 578). He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University. Active in professional organizations, he is a Past President, Fellow, recipient of the Bruce Smith Award (2012) of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Outstanding Service Award, Police Section, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He served as the editor of The American Journal of Criminal Justice (1987-1991). He is recognized as one of the “Top 25 Criminal Justice Professors” by the Forensic Colleges website as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report’s criminology ratings. The University of Louisville has also awarded him the Dean’s Outstanding Performance Award for Research in the former College of Urban and Public Affairs (1990), the same award for the College of Arts and Sciences (2002), the President’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2002), and the Distinguished University Scholar Award (2008). Pursuant to his research agenda, Dr. Vito has been principal or co-principal investigator on 37 research grant projects. He has published over 100 professional, refereed journal articles (in such journals as Criminology, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Police Quarterly, and The Prison Journal), 18 book chapters, 8 book reviews, and 43 technical research reports. He has published on such topics as: capital sentencing, police consolidation, police leadership, police traffic stops, policing strategies for drug problems in public housing, attitudes toward capital punishment, and the effectiveness of criminal justice programs, such as drug elimination programs, drug courts, and drug testing of probationers and parolees. He has made over 125 presentations at professional meetings, including invited sessions to practitioners on capital sentencing and police leadership. He is the co-author of eleven textbooks in criminal justice and criminology including Police Leadership and Administration: A 21st Century Strategic Approach (Elsevier, 2019), Organizational Behavior and Management (Prentice Hall, 2020) and Criminology: Theory, Research, and Practice (Jones & Bartlett, 2021).

Oral History of Criminology Interview:
https://www.criminologystories.com/gennaro-f-vito

Education

Ph.D. 1978 The Ohio State University (Public Administration)

M.P.A. 1977 The Ohio State University

M.A. 1976 The Ohio State University (Sociology-Criminology)

M.A. 1974 SUNY College at Fredonia (History)

B.A. 1972 SUNY College at Cortland (History)

1970 Semester Abroad, SUNY College at Cortland, through Schiller College, Heidelberg, Germany

Recent Publications

Monahan, E., Vito, A.G., & Vito, G.F. (2021). “A Comparison of Executions and Death to Life Commutations in Kentucky, 1901-2019: A Critical Review of the Process.” The Prison Journal. DOI: 10.1177/00328855211048185.

Andreescu, V. and Vito, G.F. (2021), "Strain, negative emotions and turnover intentions among American police managers", Policing: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-01-2021-0014

Vito, A.G., Woodward Griffin, V., Vito, G.F. and Higgins, G.E. (2020), "“Does daylight matter”? An examination of racial bias in traffic stops by police", Policing: An International Journal, Vol. 43 No. 4, pp. 675-688. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-04-2020-0055

Anthony G. Vito, Gennaro F. Vito & George E. Higgins (2021). "Examining the Sentence of Life without Parole in Kentucky Homicide Cases." Justice Evaluation Journal, 4:1, 98-111, DOI: 10.1080/24751979.2020.1790303

Vito, Anthony, George, Higgins, and Gennaro Vito (2021). "Police Stop and Frisk and the Impact of Race: A Focal Concerns Theory Approach." Social Sciences 10:230. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060230

Baek, H., Byers, E.H., & Vito, G.F. (2018). “Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment in a Korean Police Station.” International Journal of Police Science & Management. Vol. 20, No. 2: 155-170.

Vito, G.F., Higgins, G.E., & Vito, A.G. (2017). “Kentuckian’s Attitudes toward Capital Punishment, 1989 – 2016.” American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-017-9429-z.

Block, M.M., Vito, G.F., & Higgins, G.E. (2017). “Strengths and Weaknesses of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: A Focus Group Assessment of Law Enforcement Officers.” Deviant Behavior. Vol. 39, No. 5: 576-586.

Vito, A.G., Vito, G.F., Higgins, G.E., & Tewksbury, R. (2017). “The Recidivism of Drug Offenders Following Release from Prison: A Comparison of Kentucky Outcomes.” Corrections: Policy, Practice & Research. Vol. 2, No. 4: 223-236.

Vito, G.F., Reed, J.C., & Walsh, W.F. (2017). “Competing Views of Compstat: PERF Chiefs vs. Police Managers.” Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1: 15-25.

Vito, G.F., Higgins, G.E., & Tewksbury, R. (2015). “The Effectiveness of Parole Supervision: Use of Propensity Score Matching to Analyze Reincarceration Rates in Kentucky.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, DOI: 10.1177/0887403415609717.

Vito, G.F. (2015). “On Teaching and Conducting Research on Police Managers: The Administrative Officer’s Course at the Southern Police Institute. The Bruce Smith Sr. Award Recipient Address.” Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol. 26, No. 3: 307-315.

Vito, A. G., & Vito, G. F. (2015). “What Police Leaders Learned from “Lincoln on Leadership.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38(4), 775-787.