Socio-Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology  Revised/Expanded Edition

Managing Editor - International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences

 

Curtis R. Blakely, associate professor, holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, a specialist degree from the University of Central Missouri and a doctorate from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Curtis has served as a probation/parole officer for the State of Missouri, was a classification specialist for the New Mexico Department of Corrections, and has served as a police training specialist for the Union Pacific Railroad Police Department and for Eastern Kentucky University's Regional Community Policing Institute.  

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Curtis has written several books including Socio-Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology Revised/Expanded Edition (2017) and Socio-Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology (2016) each of which were co-authored with his wife Dr. Michelle Blakely; Prisons, Penology and Penal Reform: An Introduction to Institutional Specialization (2007); and America’s Prisons: The Movement toward Profit and Privatization (2005).  Additional publications include What Podolsky, Einstein and Others Have Taught Me About Greatness (Socrates, 2016); Sub-Atomic Particles and Prisoners: A Novel Examination of Socio-Physics and Penology (IJCJS, 2011); Bio-Penology: The Protean Approach co-authored with former student Alice Walkley (L.A.E. Journal, 2010); and A Physicist, a Philosopher and a Politician: What Penologists can Learn from Einstein, Kant and Churchill also co-authored with Alice Walkley (IJC, 2010).