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Craig Goforth
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Department Chair
Department Chair
Department: Criminal Justice
Office: Cornwell 323
P.O. Box: 6662
Phone: (828) 689-1405
Email: cgoforth@mhu.edu
B.A., University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1982- M.Ed., Western Carolina University, 1994
- Ph.D., Northcentral University, 2010
Research:
“Police History.” Craig Goforth and Barbara Sims, in the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Wesley Jennings (ed.) 2014, Wiley-Blackwell.
“Radical/Marxist Theories of Crime.” With Barbara Sims in Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell Publishers, Edited by Ruth Triplett, 2016 (revised).
Research Interests:
The effectiveness of focused deterrence programs
Barriers to the successful prosecution of hate crimes