Francis D. Boateng, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. His research includes policing, comparative criminology, victimology, terrorism, and immigration. His work has been published in Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Policing and Society, Police Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, Policing: An International Journal, Social Science Quarterly, Race and Justice, International Criminal Justice Review, Feminist Criminology, Victims and Offenders, International Victimology Review, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, among others. Dr. Boateng has presented papers at professional conferences, and he has co-authored two books on terrorism, national security, and immigration, with the latest publication titled “National Security and Policy in America: Immigrants, Crime, and the Securitization of the Border.” Dr. has provided consultancy services to criminal justice agencies and was recently retained by a major law firm in New York to provide an expert report on police behavior and practices for a federal civil case. Dr Boateng is a fellow at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, the Africa Institute for Crime, Policy and Governance Research, and a research fellow at the Mississippi Crime and Justice Research Unit. He has received several awards for his work, including the ACJS Minority Mentorship Grant Award, the Thomas A. Crowe Outstanding Faculty Award, the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award, the Coramae Richey Mann Award, the ASC Division of International Criminology Outstanding Paper Award, and the Sage Junior Faculty Professional Development Teaching Award, among others. He has served on the NSF Law and Science advisory board for more than two years.
