Mitchel Roth
Professor of Criminal Justice
Department of Criminal Justice
College of Criminal Justice
Work Phone: 936.294.1649
Areas of Expertise: Historical Perspectives of Criminal Justice, History of Crime and Crime Control, History of Policing and Corrections, History of Terrorism, Organized Crime, Pre-Teen Homicide, Comparative Policing
Biography:
Dr. Mitchel Roth joined the SHSU faculty in 1995. He has written 14 books on the history of criminal justice, the history of the Houston Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety and Sam Houston State University's College of Criminal Justice; war journalism; organized crime, prison history; and the American West. Roth has appeared or been featured on CNN, FOX, local televisions stations, and the PBS series on organized crime, Lords of the Mafia. In April 2006 he was one of featured experts on PBS's History Channel program on the 10 Commandments, where he discussed the criminal justice related commandments from an historical perspective. Roth was a selected Fellow by Freedom for Defense of Democracies, Counter-Terrorism study in Tel Aviv in 2008. He served as the secretary-treasurer of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime from 1999-2001.
CV Link: http://dev.cjcenter.org/_files/ccj/vitas/Roth-Mitchel.pdf