Rate My Professor Richard Stringer

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.