Dr. David C. May
FLORENCE, AL – Dr. David C. May, a University of North Alabama alumnus and Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University, will be on the UNA campus to present his research on the school to prison pipeline.
The talk, titled “It’s Not Just the Police that Got Me Here: Understanding the School to Prison Pipeline through the Lens of Prisoners,” will be in the Performance Center of the Guillot University Center from 1-2 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20. The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Family Studies and the Department of Politics, Justice, Law, and Philosophy.
Dr. May graduated in 1992, with a double major in Sociology and Criminal Justice. He has coauthored six books and dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters centered on his research interests in fear of crime, school safety, corrections, military sociology, cybercrime, and human robot interaction.
Additionally, he is co-authoring a book on bullying for a second edition of his school safety book, which is to be published later this year. He also serves as a co-PI on research projects funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Henry Family Foundation, and the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
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