About the Author

Dr. Cox graduated from the University of Akron with a multidisciplinary PhD with concentrations in criminology, social psychology, and criminal justice. After a 39-year career as a faculty member in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, he retired as an Emeritus Professor. As an adjunct professor, he taught criminology and criminal justice courses in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University.

Dr. Cox was a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad police officer for two years. He was based in Akron, Ohio. He was a police officer with the Marietta, Ohio Police Department for a little less than three and a half years. In this capacity, he worked as a patrol officer and first responder to service calls. These activities involved traffic control and accidents, criminal investigations, and an array of calls for service.

His academic criminology concentration was on homicide and other violent predatory criminality. His criminal justice concentration was in police administration and police-related violence. During his career, he has published several papers in academic journals. He was a co-researcher and coauthor on two major ethnographic field research projects involving homicides. One research project involved the sexually aggressive homicide of a young female college student. Both projects involved homicides, and the research team conducted them in the Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky.

He taught various topics in the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training and the Ohio Police Officers Training Academy. Dr. Cox was qualified as an expert witness in many federal civil rights litigations. Typically, these involved the lethal and nonlethal use of force.

Dr. Terry Cox

Writer & Emeritus Professor