Dr. Richard Tewksbury is Professor of Justice Administration and the previous Editor of the journals Justice Quarterly and the American Journal of Criminal Justice. His research is primarily in three areas: institutional corrections, sex offender registration, and gender/sexuality/alternative lifestyles. His correctional research interests include correctional programming evaluation and institutional violence. His work with sex offenders focuses on community responses to sex offenses/offenders, and the consequences of sex offender registration.

In regards to sexuality/alternative lifestyles, Dr. Tewksbury’s research centers on issues of men’s sexuality, the structure and processes of casual sexual encounters, and sexual lifestyle alternatives. He has published extensively on these issues and has authored several books on a wide range of criminal justice and deviance topics. His books include Sexual Deviance, Controversies in Criminal Justice Research Methods, Criminological Theory, Introduction to Corrections, Introduction to Criminal Justice Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, and Dynamics of Inequality.

Dr. Tewksbury is a 2008 recipient of the University of Louisville Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award, the 2005 Southern Criminal Justice Association's Educator of the Year Award, and the 2006 Peter P. Lejins Correctional Research Award from the American Correctional Association. Dr. Tewksbury is also a past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association and has served as Research Director for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and as a Visiting Fellow with the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University.