Stuart Henry

Dr. Henry is Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University. He was formerly Professor of Sociology and Criminology for 12 years, at Eastern Michigan University, most recently serving as Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program and Acting Head of Department. He has also been the Chair of Sociology at Valparaiso University.

Dr. Henry is also an active and energetic researcher, author and editor. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Dr. Henry has written 20 books and has over a 100 articles published in professional journals on various aspects of crime, deviance and social control. He was the first to publish a book on the informal economy and wrote a pioneering work on workplace justice. Together with a colleague he founded a postmodernist theory of crime "constitutive theory," that takes an integrated approach to the relationship between crime and society. His latest book on the nature of crime What is Crime? was published in March 2001.