Rate My Professor Jon Caudill

Jon Caudill, Ph.D., serves as a tenured Professor of Criminal Justice in the College of Public Service at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where he also holds the position of Special Advisor to the Dean since July 2025 and was Interim Dean from 2024 to 2025. He received his B.A. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in 2002, M.A. in Criminal Justice in 2004 from the same institution, and Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. Before entering academia, Caudill served honorably in the United States Marine Corps from 1995 to 1997, worked as supervision staff and shift supervisor at Gulf Coast Trades Center, as a surveillance officer, and as a Juvenile Probation Officer in Montgomery County, Texas from 2005 to 2006.

Caudill's academic career includes positions at California State University, Chico, where he progressed from Assistant Professor (2010-2014) to Associate Professor (2014-2016), serving as Internship Coordinator, Director of the Consortium for Public Safety Research, and Criminal Justice Program Coordinator. At UCCS, he joined in 2016 as tenured Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Criminal Justice Program until 2022, promoted to Professor in 2019, and coordinated the Grant Writing, Grant Management, & Program Evaluation Graduate Certificate from 2018-2022. His research focuses on formal social control, recidivism, correctional policy, institutional misconduct, and juvenile justice. Notable publications include the co-authored books Lost Causes: Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission (2016, University of Texas Press; nominated for ACJS 2017 Book Award) and Deadly Consequences: The Unintended Impact of Sentencing Reforms on California County Jails (2025, Springer). He has authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Homicide Studies, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Caudill edited Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice from 2018 to 2025 and serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Criminal Justice. His scholarship impacts criminal justice policy, organizational change in policing and corrections, and recidivism measurement.