Rate My Professor Richard Stringer

Richard J. Stringer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Chair in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University in 2018, with a dissertation on the criminal justice response to drunk driving and alcohol-related crashes from 1985-2014. He also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Old Dominion University in 2013, examining media exposure and attitudes toward marijuana legalization, and a B.A. in Criminal Justice/Public Law summa cum laude in 2011 from the same institution. Prior roles include Instructor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Adjunct Instructor of Sociology, and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Old Dominion University from 2011 to 2016; Research Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2016-2017; and Statistical Consultant at Old Dominion University Research Foundation in 2015-2016. Stringer joined Kennesaw State University as Assistant Professor in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.

Stringer's research specializations include drug and alcohol policy, decision-making, and advanced quantitative methods, supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Justice. His peer-reviewed publications appear in journals such as Crime & Delinquency, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Drug Issues, and Journal of Crime and Justice. Key works include "Deterring the Drunk Driver: An Examination of Conditional Deterrence and Self-Reported Drunk Driving" (Crime & Delinquency, 2024), "The Threatening Path to Inequality: A Multilevel Path Analysis of Minority Threat Theory, Threat Mediation, and Displacement on Ethnic Sentencing" (Crime and Delinquency, 2025), "Policing the Drinking Community: An Examination of Community Alcohol Norms and DUI Enforcement in the U.S. (1985-2015)" (American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024), "Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy" (American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2022), and "From 'Just Say No' to 'I Didn’t Inhale' to We Have 'Bigger Fish to Fry': The President, The Media, and Attitudes Toward Marijuana Legalization" (Deviant Behavior, 2021). He has received the Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award from the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2021 and 2022, Faculty Honoree for outstanding MS Criminal Justice scholars in 2021, 2022, and 2024, Southern Criminal Justice Association Untenured Faculty Travel Award in 2021, and Bureau of Justice Statistics Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016. Stringer serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Criminal Justice & Law.