Dennis J. Stevens, PhD - University of North Carolina - Charlotte , Belmont Abbey College

Dr. Dennis J. Stevens received a Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago in 1991. Formally, he held the position of director of the Ph.D. CJ program at University of Southern Mississippi and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Salem State College and director of a criminal justice program in North Carolina. In addition to teaching traditional students, he has taught and counseled law enforcement and correctional officers at law academies such as the North Carolina Justice Academy and the Boston Police Academy and felons at maximum custody penitentiaries such as Attica in New York, Eastern and NC Women’s Institute in North Carolina, Stateville and Joliet near Chicago, and MCI Framingham (women) in Massachusetts. Stevens has published several books and almost 100 scholarly and popular literature articles. He has led group intervention groups for sexually abusive parents in New York, North Carolina, and South Carolina and has lead group crisis sessions among New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officers after Hurricane Katrina.