Dr. Terrence Alladin is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Belize for the 2024-25 academic year. He is researching Empathy and Recidivism: Measuring Reincarceration at Belize Central Prison with Galen University, Belize, serving as his host institution. He is researching recidivism through the lens of Peacemaking Criminology at Belize Central Prison.
Dr. Alladin received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Pennsylvania State University and specializes in criminal justice policy, incarceration, and policing. He studies how Peacemaking Criminology can be applied to correctional practices to reduce recidivism. He also examines how peacemaking criminology can transform policing culture. At LVC, Dr. Alladin is developing a wrongful conviction program and also teaches in the Political Science Department.
Before LVC, Dr. Alladin spent nearly a decade as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Legislative Policy and Research Office (Democrats) where he oversaw 32 employees and was responsible for all research, legislation, information, and correspondence to House Democratic Members and their constituents. He was also Executive Director of the Gaming Oversight Committee and the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus. He won several awards in this role including the Staff Achievement Award and PoliticsPA Award as one of the top ten smartest staffers of the House Democratic Caucus.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
Alladin, Terrence, Natasha Ebersole, Connor Grow, and Jamie Sweigart (2023). “Policing in the Era of DEI, and in the Age of Body Worm Cameras.” presented at the American Society for Criminology Annual Conference in Philadelphia 2023. American Society for Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia 2023
Alladin, Terrence, Hanna McCurdy, and Amanda Keller (2022). “The Relationship Between Police Militarization and Civilian Complaints” presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Conference in Las Vegas Nevada 2022.
Alladin, Terrence, Noelle Meck and Hayley Cobb (2017). “Community Policing in the Age of Militarization: The Police Training Academies may provide the Answer” presented at the American Society for Criminology Annual Conference in Philadelphia 2017. American Society for Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia 2017
Alladin, Terrence (2015). “An Analysis of Public and Private Community Corrections in Pennsylvania” presented at the Conference of Minority Public Administrators Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2015
BOOK CHAPTERS
Alladin, Terrence, Sherrise Truesdale-Moore and Shaun L. Gabbidon. (2008). “An Analysis of State Level Correctional Policies for Emergency Releases for Deathbed Visits and Funeral Attendance” Professional Issues In Criminal Justice: A Professional Journal. 3:4 (83). http://www.picj.org
Alladin, Terrence and Don Hummer. (2018) “The Relationship between Individual Characteristics, Quality of Confinement and Recidivism by Offenders Released from Privately- and Publicly-Managed Residential Community Corrections Facilities” The Prison Journal. 98:5. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032885518793950
Alladin, Terrence and Don Hummer (2021). “Immigrant and Citizen Reincarceration in Pennsylvania” American Journal of Criminal Justice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12103-021-09609-w
Alladin, Terrence (forthcoming) “Criming While White” Encyclopedia of Race, Crime and Justice: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Greenwood Press.
EDITORIALS
President Pelosi? Thanks Putin.
Two key police reforms need now.
Equal protection under the law means treating bad cops like any other criminal.
Policing has its roots in slave-catching, to change it, we must change that legacy: The history of American policing reflects the attitudes, norms, and values of racism in our society.
Policemen should have a college degree.
