Professor, Department Chair, Criminal Justice Program Director

Office: CFO 306
940-898-2052  phone | 940-898-2067 fax | email: jwilliams2@twu.edu

Education

PhD 1989, University of Georgia

 

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Deviant behavior (Interent)
• Crime in America
• Correctional Systems
• Sociology of Cyberspace (Internet)

Graduate

• Comparative Criminology/ Criminal Justice
• Technology and Society
• Socioeconomic Development
• Teaching with Technology

Selected Publications

Bugg, David and James L. Williams. 2008. "Hate Groups in the Network Society: A Transnational Social Phenomenon." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. 2008. "American Politics Supremacist Style Tracking: The Presidential Election On Stormfront." Theory In Action, 1(4):150   Accessible online at http://www.transformativestudies.org/publications/theory-in-action-the-journal-of-tsi/

Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. (eds). 2008. Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

Dentice, Dianne and James L. Williams. 2008. "The Twenty-first Century Ku Klux Klan: From Social Movement to Reactive Subsystem." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

Marley, Phyllis, James L. Williams, and Mahmoud Sadri. 2008. "Jonestown: Alienation and the Total Institution." In Dianne Dentice and James L. Williams (editors). Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

Rodeheaver, Daniel G. and James L. Williams. 2005. "Juvenile Crime and Justice in Russia." Pp. 225-247 in William A. Pridemore (ed.) Crime, Law, and Justice in Transitional Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Williams, James L. and Daniel G. Rodeheaver. 2005. "Teaching Sociology Graduate Students to Teach With Technology." Journal of Applied Sociology.