John Ortiz Smykla
Professor and Chair
Phone: (850) 473-7377
E-mail: jsmykla@uwf.edu
Office: Bldg. 85, Room 161A

Courses Taught:

Social Science Research Methods
Institutional and Community Corrections
Crime Prevention and Control
Capital Punishment
Comparative and Historical Criminal Justice
Criminological Theory 

Specialties:

Correction/punishment issues such as probation, parole, prison and capital punishment.

Current Research Interests:

Correctional privatization and the myth of inherent efficiency.

Demystifying crime and criminal justice.

Prisoner reentry

Brief Vitae:

Education:B.A.,California State University (Northridge), 1969; M.A., California State University (Northridge), 1970; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1977.

Activities and Awards:

• Chairperson, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Principal responsibilities: leadership for undergraduate programs in criminal justice and legal studies at UWF main (Pensacola) and branch campuses at Ft. Walton Beach and Marianna; online master’s of science degree in administration of criminal justice; academic program development; faculty and staff recruitment, development, review and workload assignments; fiscal management; departmental recommendations on salary, tenure, promotion and sabbatical leave; and course scheduling.
• 1996. Educator of the Year, Southern Criminal Justice Association
• 2003. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Certificate of Appreciation
• 2003. Distinguished Lecturer, “Drug Courts,” Eastern Kentucky University, College of Criminal Justice, Distinguished Lecture Series
• 2004. University of South Alabama Committee on Undergraduate Research, $2000 (to fund undergraduate student assisting me with update of execution dataset)
• 2004. University of West Florida, “Sex, Drugs and Crime” (public lecture on drug courts)
• 2004. U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP, $73,089 (3 year grant to fund outcome evaluation of Mobile County Juvenile Drug Court)

Notable Publications:

• 2004. Executions in the United States, 1608-2003: The Espy File. [3rd ICPSR Edition] (machine-readable data file). Tuscaloosa, AL: John Ortiz Smykla (producer); Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and
  Social Research, University of Michigan (distributor). (with M.W.Espy)(ICPSR 8451)
  (Diskette 00013).
• 2006. Correctional privatization and the myth of inherent efficiency. In R.E. Bohm and
  J. T. Walker (Eds.), Demystifying crime and criminal justice. (pp. 214-220). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury (with C. Blakely).
• 2009 (forthcoming). Corrections in the 21st century, Fourth Edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. (with Frank Schmalleger). Extensive online supplements.
  

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