Curriculum Vitae

Education, professional experience, and research activity.

Education

2019

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Criminal Justice

Northcentral University (now National University)

M.S., Sociology

Grand Canyon University

M.S. (second master's degree)

Grand Canyon University

In progress

Mental Health Counseling program

Walden University

Professional experience

Current

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Counselor

Current

Independent Researcher

Criminology and Counseling, Oceana, West Virginia

29 years

Corrections, penal and community settings

Including 19 years as a supervisor in a correctional facility, and manager of the McDowell County alternative sentencing program

Research program

2026

Developer, Criminogenic Embeddedness Model (CEM)

A life-course model of strain, control, and social learning in criminal offending.

Ongoing

Developer, Recovery Embeddedness Model (REM)

An exploratory companion theory extending embeddedness logic to substance abuse recovery and relapse.

Book

2026

Criminogenic Embeddedness and Criminal Trajectories: A Life-Course Model of Strain, Control, and Social Learning

Independently published. ISBN 979-8192913192. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21961664

Manuscripts

Under review

Testing criminogenic embeddedness against general strain, interactional, and ICAP theory using Pathways to Desistance data

Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

In preparation

Undetected, not absent: Adolescent offending, peer substance use, and the composition of adult-onset arrest in a U.S. national cohort

In planning

A desistance-focused test of criminogenic embeddedness's asymmetric-embeddedness propositions

Dissertation

2019

The Impact of Unemployment and Poverty on Recidivism in West Virginia: A Quantitative Analysis

Northcentral University, DBA Dissertation. ProQuest No. 27737538

Identifiers

ORCID

0000-0003-3527-9462