Michael P. Harrington

   Visiting Assistant Professor

   Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D(Exp) Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• M.S.            Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
• B.S.            Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Research Interests

• Institutional correction
• Courts and Sentencing
• Intersection of mental illness and the CJ system
• Violent crime and crime victims

Course Taught

• CRIJ 2313  Correctional Systems & Practices
• CRIJ 3308  Victimology  

Select Publications

Harrington, M. (2008).  “Revisiting the total incarceration variable: Should researchers separate jail from prison sentences in sentencing research?” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24 (1): 462-478.

Harrington, M. and C. Spohn.  (2007).”Defining sentence type: Further evidence against the use of the total incarceration variable.”  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 44 (1): 36-63.

Borroughs, S. and M. Harrington.  (1996). “County jail computer survey.”  American Jails, X (3):71-72.