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Forget Internships – Bring Employers and Their Work into the Classroom!

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Current and Emerging Trends in the Private Security Industry: The need for Continuing Education and Training of the Security Professional

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Street Gangs, Organized Crime Groups, and Terrorists: Differentiating Criminal Organizations

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Military-Trained Gang Members – Two different perspectives

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When is a prison gang not a prison gang: When it’s an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

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When is a prison gang not a prison gang: A focused review of prison gang literature

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Engaging the Learner. Annual Instructional Technology Conference (12th, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April 1-3, 2007)

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Volunteer Stress: Examining Job-related Stress and Effects for Gang Officers in Tennessee

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9 Oct

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Carter F. Smith

Scroll Less – Learn More

We’ve all been there—scrolling through social media, half-engaged, half-asle

17 Sep

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Carter F. Smith

It’s Constitution Day! Is the First Amendment in Danger?

First amendment, job loss, social media convergence can be dangerous

13 Sep

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Carter F. Smith

How I Wrote These Posts with an Algorithm and Still Slept at Night

By Carter F. Smith | carterfsmith.com Let’s get something straight: I wrote th

10 Sep

AlarmInspirationPolicingThoughts and Ideas

Carter F. Smith

The Assignment Is the Crime Scene

By Carter F. Smith | carterfsmith.com If Beyond Detection was the initial invest

9 Sep

AlarmInspirationThoughts and Ideas

Carter F. Smith

Beyond Detection: Finding Out Isn’t the Same as Fixing It

By Carter F. Smith | carterfsmith.com When I first started looking into how stud

8 Sep

InspirationPolicingThoughts and Ideas

Carter F. Smith

Rewrite the Rules: Fixing the Assignment, Not Just the Attitude

By Carter F. Smith | carterfsmith.com Let me say it plain: I don’t want to spe

8 Sep

EconomyInspirationThoughts and Ideas

Carter F. Smith

Epilogue: The Junk We Carry

By now, the through-line should be clear: the American consumer experiment — e

26 Aug

InspirationPolicing

Carter F. Smith

The MCJ Is Better Than an MBA for Cops: Why Criminal Justice Needs Less Jargon and More Judgment in the AI Age

By Carter F. Smith My students don’t earn a Master of Criminal Justice (MCJ) t

14 Aug

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Carter F. Smith

AI’s New Criminal Toolkit — What Cops, Students, and Chiefs Need to Get Right Now

The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) just laid out a clean, no-drama picture

Publications From Academia

Forget Internships – Bring Employers and Their Work into the Classroom!

Current and Emerging Trends in the Private Security Industry: The need for Continuing Education and Training of the Security Professional

Street Gangs, Organized Crime Groups, and Terrorists: Differentiating Criminal Organizations

Military-Trained Gang Members – Two different perspectives

When is a prison gang not a prison gang: When it’s an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

When is a prison gang not a prison gang: A focused review of prison gang literature

Engaging the Learner. Annual Instructional Technology Conference (12th, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April 1-3, 2007)

Volunteer Stress: Examining Job-related Stress and Effects for Gang Officers in Tennessee

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