Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminology at Florida State University.  He is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His research interests include terrorism and security, policing, theoretical criminology, African criminology, and race and crime. He has published articles on terrorism, political violence in America, Nigerian police, police pursuits, and black criminology. He is the author of The Globalization of Terrorism, a book that was published by Ashgate Press, London, 2001.

PUBLICATIONS:

Published Book

2001. The Globalization of Terrorism. (Ashgate Publishing Company: Aldershot, England.

Articles

1999. “A Contextual Analysis of Political Violence in the United States of America.” In Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Seminar Report Series: Political Violence in South Africa (with Ebere Onwudiwe)

2000. “Decentralization of the Nigerian Police Force.” The International Journal of African Studies. Vol. 2, Winter, Number 1.  95-114.

2000. “Reopening the Debate: A Reexamination of the Need for a Black Criminology.” Social Pathology, Vol. 6 No. 3, September 2000 182-198. (with Michael Lynch)

2001 “Terrorism” Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2001. “Policing Democracy.”  Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.  and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh  (2004). “Rethinking Police Pursuits, Practices, and Civil Liabilities.”  Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Vol 4(1), 45-60.

Book Chapter

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.  (2003). “Transnational Crimes:  The Case of Advanced Fee Fraud in Nigeria.”  In Agozino and Kalunta-Crumpton.  Pan African Issues in Criminology.  Ashgate: Aldershort.

FORTHCOMING ARTICLES 2004

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D., Odo, Jonathan, and Onyeozili Emmanuel (2004).  “Deterrence Theory.” In Bosworth Mary, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities.  Sage:  Thousand Oaks.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D., and Onyeozili Emmanuel.  (2004). “The Black Panther Party.” In Bosworth Mary, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities.  Sage:  Thousand Oaks.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D., and Mosley Thomas.  (2004). “Aryan Nations.”  In Bosworth Mary, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities.  Sage:  Thousand Oaks.

Onyeozili Emmanuel, Odo Jonathan, and Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. (2004). “Cook County, Illinois.”  In Bosworth Mary, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities.  Sage:  Thousand Oaks.

Odo Jonathan, Onyeozili Emmanuel, and Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. (2004). “Boot Camp.”  In Bosworth Mary, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities.  Sage:  Thousand Oaks.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. 1995. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. By R.J. Herrnstein and C. Murray. The Free Press: New York. 1994. Journal of Social Pathology, pp.203-208.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. 1995. Policing the Conflict in South Africa. By Mathews, M.L., P.B. Heyman, and A.S. Mathews (eds.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. Journal of Social Pathology, pp. 290-295.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. 2000. Black Women and the Criminal Justice System.  By Biko Agozino, Ashgate. Publishing Company, 1998. Journal of Social Pathology, pp.245-247.

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D., and Cecil, Bill. (2003)  Punishment and Purpose: From Moral Theory to Punishment in Action.  By Jan De Keijser (2000).  Amsterdam: Thelma Thesis.  International Criminal Justice Review, pp. 191-193 (with my graduate student)

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.  2003.  Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa.  By James McDougal (2003).  Frank Cass:  London, 186 pages.  African and Asian Studies Journal, Volume 2, no. 3. 347-350.

2003. I.D. Onwudiwe and Mary U. Nwakwuo. Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics 1980-1987.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, By Kriger, Norma. ISBN 0521818230, pp1-293. Extremism: Electronic Journal. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy, London: England (with my graduate student).

Article Under Review

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.  (2004). “A Critical Theoretical Analysis of Old and New Terrorism.” 

Book in Progress

2004.  Terrorism and Criminal Justice.  Carolina Academic Press.  Durham: North Carolina.

Book Reviews in Progress

Cyaan, Zoller (Graduate Student) and I.D. Onwudiwe. Counter Colonial Criminology: A Critique opf Imperialist Reason by Biko Agozino London: Pluto Press.

Cyaan, Zoller (Graduate Student) and I.D. Onwudiwe.  Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World: Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies by Mbaku, Agbese, and Kimenyi (eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate.