Christopher C. Palmore joins McDaniel College as an assistant professor of sociology. Palmore taught criminology as an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University East Bay, where he was a co-founder and governing board member for the Center for Disability Justice Research: Health, Equity, Education, and Creativity (CDJR).
Previously, he was both an assistant professor and visiting instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests include victimization, social perceptions of crime, situational factors of crime, social psychology, and criminological theory.
A member of the American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and American Sociological Association, he has had articles published in scholarly journals and has presented at conferences throughout the United States.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University, Long Beach, and completed his master’s and Ph.D. in criminology at Pennsylvania State University, where his research focused on the social context of crime, including situational aspects, such as alcohol use and opportunity for crime, and individual personality characteristics (for example, self-control).
