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1220 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Parker, Robert N

Professor of Sociology
Co-director, Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies


Biography

Dr. Parker grew up in Lewiston, NY, a suburb of Niagara Falls. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, his MA in Sociology from the Indiana University, and in 1980 he received his Ph.D. from Duke University. Since then he has taught Criminology, Sociology, Research design and Statistical Analysis at the University of Akron, Rutgers University, and the University of Iowa. In 1991 Dr. Parker was appointed Senior Research Scientist and Study Director at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley, CA, a nonaffiliated, non profit research center focused on the relationship between alcohol and social/behavioral problems. At the Prevention Research Center Dr. Parker directed a number of Federal and Private Foundation research projects on the relationship between alcohol use and abuse and violence, and in 1995 he published Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions, with the State University of New York Press. Author of .40 scientific articles and chapters on topics including the causes of violence, the relationship between alcohol, other drugs, and violence, alcohol and drug policy and violence prevention, and research design and statistical methods in the social sciences, Dr. Parker was appointed Director of the Presley Center and Professor of Sociology at UCR July 1, 1996. In 2000, the Presley Center was designated a National Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Former Institution

University of Iowa

Degrees

AB Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 1976

Brown University

MA Sociology 1978

Indiana University

PhD Sociology 1980

Duke University

Awards

National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Alcohol Research Group, UC Berkeley, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter, Duke University, 1982
NIGMS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University, 1978