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Criminal Justice
Patrice K. Morris, Ph.D.
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Patrice K. Morris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
College of Human Ecology
East Carolina University
Rivers 242
Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353
252-737-2415
morrisp@ecu.edu |
| Dr. Patrice K Morris completed her undergraduate study at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica and earned a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University, Newark campus. Her research interests focus on neighborhoods and violence, institutional and community corrections, and crime and justice in the Caribbean. Dr. Morris has been nationally recognized for her groundbreaking research on homicide in Jamaica. In 2010, she received the prestigious Richard Block Dissertation Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research from the Homicide Research Working Group at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting. Dr. Morris was honored for her study “An Analysis of Homicide in Urban Jamaica” which investigates the social and structural correlates of homicide in urban Jamaica. She has published several articles on crime and justice issues in the Caribbean. Her latest article “Homicide through a different lens” was published in the British Journal of Criminology. |
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| Courses Taught- (Partial List): |
JUST 1000- Introduction to Criminal Justice
JUST 3012- Police Operations
JUST 3800- Research Methods in Criminal Justice
JUST 4200- The Juvenile Justice System
JUST 4500- Ethical Issues and Problems in Criminal Justice
JUST 6006- Seminar in Corrections
JUST 6700- Seminar in Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice
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Homicide, Crime and Violence in the Caribbean, Neighborhoods and Crime, Institutional and Community Corrections
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