A
social psychologist working in criminology
and criminal justice administration, Hans
Toch is a prolific author whose books
include Living in Prison (Free Press,
1975), Violent Men (Aldine, 1969), The
Disturbed Violent Offender (with Ken Adams,
Yale, 1989), Police as Problem Solvers
(with J.D. Grant, Plenum, 1991), Mosaic
of Despair (A.P.A. Books, 1992), Police
Violence (with William Geller, Yale, 1996),
Corrections: A Humanistic Approach, (Harrow
and Heston, 1997) and Acting Out (with
Ken Adams), APA Books, 2002.
Hans Toch is an
elected Fellow of the American Psychological
Association and the American Society of
Criminology, and in 1996 he served as
president of the American Association
for Forensic Psychology. He was a member
of the Governor's Task Force on Juvenile
Violence and a consultant to the National
Commission on the Causes and Prevention
of Violence. His book Men in Crisis won
the Hadley Cantril Memorial Award and
he is co-recipient of the August Vollmer
Award from the ASC. |
