Professor and Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University

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Dr. Stuart Henry joined WSU in 1999 initially as the Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and Associate Dean of the College of Lifelong Learning. In 2002 he led the transition of the program to Department status and championed its move to WSU's College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs where he was appointed Department Chair. Dr. Henry was formerly Professor of Sociology and Criminology for 12 years(1987-1998), at Eastern Michigan University, most recently serving as Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program and Acting Head of Department. He was also Chair of the Department of Sociology at Valparaiso University (1998-99).

 

Dr. Henry is an active and energetic researcher, author and editor. He was contracted by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to study economic exchange after societal cataclysm. His research on the relationship between formal law and private justice was been funded by the National Science Foundation.  He has worked with the Uniform Law Commission, editing their work on Employment Termination Law published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1994).  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. Dr. Henry is an internationally recognized criminologist with 20 books and over 100 articles in professional journals. Among his books are: What is Crime? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), School Violence (Sage, 2000), Essential Criminology (Westview, 1998), Constitutive Criminology at Work (SUNY Press, 1999), Degrees of Deviance (Sheffield, 1999), The Criminological Theory Reader (New York University Press, 1998), Constitutive Criminology (Sage, 1996), Criminological Theory (Harcourt Brace and Co, 1995), and The Deviance Process (Aldine de Gruyter, 1993).  Dr. Henry believes that while we are shaped and channeled  by our bio-psych-socio-political environment, we express our humanity through making a difference to and shaping the world that shapes us

 

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