Allan BarnesPh.D.

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Professor Emeritus
Justice Center
PSB 225D
907-786-1819
arbarnes@alaska.edu

Education

  • 1983: Ph.D. (Criminology), Florida State University

Biography

Allan Barnes, professor emeritus, received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1983 and has been with UAA since 1984. Barnes has been a police officer, a prison psychologist, a probation and parole officer, a police and court clerk, an administrator for a treatment facility for young adult offenders, an Assistant Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Officer in the Army Reserve, and director of the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ Justice Statistical Analysis Center (housed in the UAA Justice Center, now known as the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ Justice Information Center). He has served on the boards of many local organizations, chaired numerous UAA committees, provided invited testimony to the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ Legislature, and produced a number of articles and reports on a wide variety of Justice topics.

Research Interests

  • Criminology
  • Crime prevention
  • Program evaluation

Projects
  • Exploring POGIL for use in Justice courses as part of an overall Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) emphasis at UAA
  • Evaluating an offender reentry program
  • Evaluating a local Weed and Seed program funded by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance