Instructor: Dr. Brett Garland

Brett Garland is a native of Indiana and received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2007. His research interests are in the areas of Correctional Management and Staff, Offender Rehabilitation and Reentry, Gangs, Hate Crime, and Terrorism. Brett recently completed a study of job satisfaction and organizational commitment among educators, caseworkers, psychological staff, and medical personnel in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has also studied the burnout of mental health staff in adult prisons and assisted with an evaluation of the Nebraska Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative. Brett’s publications can be found in The Prison Journal, the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Corrections Today, and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management (forthcoming). He is currently refining a coauthored theory of civil litigation and white supremacist violence (under review in Theoretical Criminology) and exploring research opportunities with the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Brett’s teaching style integrates the traditional lecture method with more modern active-learning techniques. He has taught a variety of courses, including Introduction to Corrections, Juvenile Delinquency and Justice, Criminal Justice Organization and Administration, Gangs and Gang Behavior, Crime Prevention, Introduction to Law Enforcement, and Research Methods in Criminal Justice. Currently, Brett is teaching CRM 320 The Causes of Crime and Delinquency and CRM 502 Analyzing Crime Data (Statistics). His professional experience consists of three years as a program coordinator specializing in reentry services with the Indiana Department of Correction and one year as a social worker in a juvenile group home.