Dr. Chad Trulson, Ph.D.

Biographical Sketch

 

Chad R. Trulson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas.  He received an A.A. degree in Public Service/Law Enforcement from North Iowa Area Community College (1994), a B.A. in Criminology from the University of Northern Iowa (1996), and a M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) from the George J. Beto College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University.  Dr. Trulson has worked in various positions in juvenile justice such as a juvenile resident counselor, juvenile detention officer, and a juvenile parole officer.  

Dr. Trulson has published in numerous professional journals including Crime and Delinquency, Law and Society Review, The Prison Journal, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Criminology and Public Policy, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, and Criminal Justice Review.  Dr. Trulson also recently co-authored Juvenile Justice: The System, Process, and Law with Rolando v. del Carmen published by Wadsworth in 2005.  His current research interests involve recidivism among institutionalized delinquents and racial desegregation and violence in prisons.  His research on the aftermath of racial desegregation in the Texas prison system (The Caged Melting Pot: Towards an Understanding of the Consequences of Desegregation in Prisons) was used by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Johnson v. California (2005).  Currently, Dr. Trulson is finishing a book (with Dr. James W. Marquart) on racial desegregation in the Texas prison system.

Dr. Trulson regularly teaches Research Methods, Administration of Criminal Justice Agencies, and Juvenile Justice at the undergraduate level, and periodically teaches Corrections, Juvenile Delinquency, and Serial Homicide.  At the graduate level, Dr. Trulson has taught such courses as Seminar on the Death Penalty, Discipline, Punishment, and Social Policy, Criminal Justice Policy, Correctional Programs, and Criminal Justice Administration. Among other service activities, Dr. Trulson serves on the University of North Texas Institutional Review Board (IRB).