Dr. Mitchell P. Roth
Associate Professor
Education
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D., History, 1993
- University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A., History, 1987
- University of Maryland, College Park, B.A., History, 1975
Work Summary
Dr. Roth has been an Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University for ten years and has taught courses in Organized Crime, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Violence in America, History of Criminal Justice, History of Policing, History of the Prison, and History of Murder.
Recent Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, teaching primarily in criminal justice courses.
- Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (1999-2000).
- Visiting Professor, in London, UK, Summer 2000. Conducting comparative research on English police systems and emergence of East European organized crime in England.
- Member, U.S. delegation to Cuba, March 2000, for the study of policing and criminal justice in Cuba. Presented the results in a paper at the 2000 meeting of American Society of Criminology.
- Consultant to the Texas National Guard on Balkan Organized Crime, prior to the Guard?s deployment to Bosnia in March 2000.
- Interviewed and appeared on Public Television Series, Lords of the Mafia, August 1999.
- Lectured on Organized Crime to the Chinese delegation to Sam Houston State University in the U.S., Spring 1998.
Publications/Papers/Presentations
Dr. Roth has written over thirty scholarly publications/papers on the history of policing in the United States, and on selected issues in international policing.