1 CURRICULUM VITA BRUCE A. ARRIGO, Ph.D. PERSONAL INFORMATION Work Address

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CURRICULUM VITA
BRUCE A. ARRIGO, Ph.D.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Work Address: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
9201 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

Home Address: 5805 Monticello Dr.
Concord, NC 28027

Telephone: Work: [phone]
Home: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

1993 – Ph.D. Adm. of Justice (Dep’t. of Sociology and Crime, Law, & Justice)
The Pennsylvania State University
AOS: Justice Policy & Legal Environment
AOC: Law and Mental Health
1987 – M.A. Sociology, Duquesne University
1985 – M.A. Psychology, Duquesne University
1982 – 1984 Legal Studies coursework, Temple University School of Law
1982 – B.A. Politics, Saint Joseph’s University (cum laude)
(Minor in Philosophy)
Certificate: American Studies

HONORS/RECOGNITIONS

1987 – TEACHING FELLOWSHIP: Duquesne University, Department of Sociology

1996 – NOMINATED: Outstanding Young Scholar of the Year (American Society of
Criminology)

1996 – NOMINATED: Teacher of the Year (Duquesne University)

1996 – NOMINATED: Book of the Year: The Contours of Psychiatric Justice (Association for
Humanist Sociology)

1997 – NOMINATED: Outstanding Young Scholar of the Year (American Society of
Criminology)

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1997 – AWARD: Diplomate Status: Sponsored by the American College of Forensic Examiners:
Diplomate, American Board of Psychological Specialties (DABPS)

1999 – AWARD: Program of the year (E.P.P.I.C.) Sponsored by the California Youth
Authority)

2000 – AWARD: Millennium Edition Who’s Who in the World

2000 – AWARD: Critical Criminologist of the Year (Division on Critical Criminology,
American Society of Criminology)

2002 – AWARD: Fellow, American Psychological Association, sponsored by the Psychology-
Law Division of the APA (Div. 41)

2002 – NOMINATED: Outstanding Book of the Year in crime and/or juvenile delinquency
(Law, Psychology, and Justice: Chaos Theory and the New Disorder), sponsored by the
Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

2003 – NOMINATED: Outstanding book in criminal justice (Criminal Competency on Trial:
The Case of Colin Ferguson), sponsored by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

2005 – AWARD: Fellow, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

2005 – AWARD: Outstanding Book of the Year in crime and juvenile delinquency (The French
Connection in Criminology: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change), sponsored
by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Section of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems

2006 – NOMINATED: Outstanding Book of the Year (The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the
Terrorist Threat), sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and
Human Rights

2007 – AWARD: Bruce Smith Sr. Award, sponsored by the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences

2007 – SCIENTIFIC MEMBER: W. Kahn Institute of Theoretical Psychiatry and Neuroscience
(Utrecht, the Netherlands)

2007 – NOMINATED: Fellow, American Society of Criminology

2008 – AWARD: First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal (UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious
research award given to one faculty member annually)

2009 – Appointment: Faculty Affiliate, Wake Forest University’s Program in Bioethics, Health,
and Society.

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EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2001 – Present Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, UNC-Charlotte
Professor, Criminology, Law, and Society
Adjunct Professor, Public Policy Program
Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department
Faculty Associate, Center for Prof’l and Applied Ethics
2009 – Present Adjunct Professor, Public Health Sciences Department
2001 – 2004 Professor and Chair, Department of Criminal Justice

1996 – 2001 Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
(California School of Professional Psychology – Fresno)
Professor, Criminology, Law, Society, and Public Policy
Director, Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
Director, Forensic Psychology Ph.D./Psy.D. Programs

1995 – 1996 Sociology Department, Duquesne University
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice
Research Faculty, Center for Social and Public Policy

1993 – 1995 Law & Justice Studies Department, Rowan University
Assistant Professor, Law and Justice Studies

1992 – 1993 Department of Criminal Justice, West Chester University
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

1991 – 1992 Administration of Justice Department, Penn State University
Lecturer, Administration of Justice

1985 – 1991 Community Human Services Corporation (Pgh., PA)
Director, Mental Health and Social Services (WSC)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (* = GRADUATE LEVEL)
Psychology Law and Justice Studies Sociology
Intro to Psychology Intro to Criminal Justice Intro to Sociology
Counseling Offenders Criminological Theory Race & Ethnicity
Abnormal Psychology Violence, Crime and the Media *Sociology of Law
*Forensic Psychology Juvenile Justice Administration Sociological Theory
*Psychology of Violence Ethics and Issues in C-JUS Juvenile Delinquency
*Organizational Behavior Minorities and the C-JUS System Medical Sociology
*Criminal Mind *Peace Studies & Conflict Res. Social Problems
*Cross-Cultural M/H *Seminar in Legal Theory *Sociology of M/H
*Mental Health Law Law and the Adult Offender Qualitative Research
*Psychology of Terrorism *Seminar in Social Justice
*Research Seminar Law and Society
*Justice Policy
*Women and Crime
Seminar in Corrections
*Law & Social Control
* Famous Trial of the 21st Century
* Profiling Offenders
* Ethics & Justice Systems
* History & Philosophy of Punishment
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Courses Cross-listed with the Honors College and Philosophy Department
Philosophy, Justice, & Social Change; Punishment & Freedom; Ethics & Everyday Life

RESEARCH FIELDS
A) law, mental health, and society; B) theory, culture, and society; and C) deviance, violence,
and society

PUBLICATIONS

A. Books/Volumes in Law, Mental Health, and Society

1. Arrigo, B.A. Madness, Language, and the Law. Albany, N.Y.: Harrow and Heston,
1993

2. Arrigo, B.A. The Contours of Psychiatric Justice: A Postmodern Critique of Mental
Illness, Criminal Insanity, and the Law. New York/London: Garland, 1996.

3. Arrigo, B.A. Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Issues and Controversies in Crime
and Justice. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000.

Arrigo, B.A., and Shipley, S.L. Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Issues and
Controversies in Law, Law Enforcement, and Corrections (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA:
Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005.

4. Williams, C.R., and Arrigo, B. A. Law, Psychology, and Justice: Chaos Theory and the
New (Dis)Order. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001.

5. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed.). Law, Psychiatry, and Psychology. Special Issue and Section of the
Legal Studies Forum. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press and the American
Legal Studies Association. March and June Issues, 25 [3/4]: 505-538, 2001).

6. Arrigo, B. A. Punishing the Mentally Ill: A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry.
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002.

7. Bardwell, M.C., and Arrigo, B. A. Criminal Competency on Trial: The Case of Colin
Ferguson. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002.

8. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed). Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law,
Crime, and Society. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004.

9. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed.). Liberty, Sanity, Equality. Special Issue of the Journal of Forensic
Psychology Practice. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press (December Issue, 4[4]: 1-107,
2004).

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B. Books/Volumes in Theory, Culture, and Society

10. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed.). Violence in Crime, Law, and Justice: Postmodern Perspectives
Special Issue of Social Pathology. Albany, New York: Harrow and Heston (February
Issue, 4 [1]: 1-82, 1998).

11. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed.). Social Justice/Criminal Justice: The Maturation of Critical
Theory in Law, Crime, and Deviance. Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 1999

12. Young, T. R., and Arrigo, B. A.. The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences. New York,
NY: Westview Press, 1999.

13. Arrigo, B.A. (Ed.). Law, Society, and Lacan. Special Issue of the International Journal
for the Semiotics of Law. The Netherlands: Kluwer Press (May Issue 13 [2]: 127-250,
2000).

14. Williams, C.R., and Arrigo, B.A. Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical
Integrations and Critical Applications. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, 2004.

15. Arrigo, B.A., Milovanovic, D., and Schehr, R. C. The French Connection in
Criminology: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change: Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, 2005.

16. Arrigo, B.A., and Williams, C.R. (Eds.). Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology. Urbana
and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

17. Williams, C. R., and Arrigo, B. A. Ethics, Crime, and Criminal Justice. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008.

18. Arrigo, B. A., and Milovanovic, D. Revolution in Penology: Rethinking the Society of
Captives. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

19. Arrigo, B. A. and Milovanovic, D. (Eds.) Postmodernist and Post-structuralist
Theories of Crime. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Press (in press).

C. Books/Volumes in Deviance, Violence, and Society

20. Graney, D. J., and Arrigo, B. A. The Power Serial Rapist: A Criminology-Victimology
Typology of Female Victim Selection Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2001.

21. Shipley, S. L., and Arrigo, B.A. The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the
Case of Aileen Wuornos. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.

22. Claussen, N., Arrigo, B.A. Police Corruption and Psychological Testing: A Strategy for
Pre-Employment Screening. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005
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23. Arrigo, B.A. Criminal Behavior: A Systems Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2006.

24. Purcell, C. E., and Arrigo, B. A. The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual
Killing, and Serial Homicide. San Diego, CA: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2006.

25. Arena, M. P., and Arrigo, B. A. The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the
Terrorist Threat. NY: New York University Press, 2006

26. Arrigo, B. A. (Ed.). Institutional and Community Corrections: Research, Policy, and
Programming. Special Double Issue of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation,
Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press (45[3/4]: 1-177, 2007).

27. Arrigo, B. A. (Ed.). Desistance from Crime and Offender Reentry: Theory, Research, and
Policy. Special Double Issue of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Binghamton, NY:
Haworth Press (46[1/2], 1-176, 2007).

A. Law, Mental Health, and Society:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries

1. Arrigo, B.A. The logic of identity and the politics of justice: Establishing a right to
community-based treatment for the institutionalized mentally disabled. New England
Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, 18(1): 1-31, 1992.

2. Arrigo, B.A. Paternalism, civil commitment, and illness politics: Assessing the current
debate and outlining a future direction. Journal of Law and Health, 7 (2):131-168, 1993.

3. Arrigo, B. A. Civil commitment, semiotics, and discourse on difference: An historical
critique of the sign of paternalism. In Flux, Complexity, and Illusion in Law. R. Kevelson
(ed.), (pp.7-32). NY: Peter Lang, 1993.

4. Arrigo, B.A. Legal discourse and the disordered criminal defendant: Contributions from
psychoanalytic semiotics and chaos theory. Legal Studies Forum, 18(1): 93-113, 1994.

Reprinted in: The Eyes of Justice, R. Kevelson (ed.), (pp.57-83), N.Y.: Lang,
1994.

Reprinted in: Chaos, Criminology, and Social Justice, D. Milovanovic (ed.),
(pp.139-154). New York: Praeger, 1997.

5. Arrigo, B.A. The behavior of law and psychiatry: Rethinking knowledge construction
and the guilty-but-mentally ill verdict. Criminal Justice and Behavior: An International
Journal, 23(4): 572-592, 1996.

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6. Arrigo, B.A. Desire in the psychiatric courtroom: On Lacan and the dialectics of
linguistic oppression. Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 16:159-187, 1996

7. Arrigo, B.A. Towards a theory of punishment in the psychiatric courtroom: On language,
law and Lacan. Journal of Crime and Justice, 19(1): 15-32, 1996.

8. Arrigo, B.A. Insanity defense reform and the sign of abolition: Re-visiting the Montana
experience. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, X (29): 191-211, 1997.

9. Arrigo, B.A., and Williams, C R. Chaos theory and the social control thesis: A post-
Foucauldian analysis of mental illness and involuntary civil confinement. Social Justice,
26(1): 177-207, 1999.

10. Arrigo, B.A., and Williams, C. R. Law, ideology, and critical inquiry: The case of
treatment refusal for incompetent prisoners awaiting execution. New England Journal on
Criminal and Civil Confinement, 25(2): 367-412, 1999.

Reprinted in: The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials (Volume III):
Competency to be Tried, Imprisoned, and Executed. J. Campbell Moriarty (ed.),
(pp. 319-364). New York: Routledge, 2001.

11. Arrigo, B.A. Martial metaphors and medical justice: Implications for law, crime, and
deviance. Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 27(2): 305-322, 1999.

Reprinted in: The Academy of Psychoanalytic Arts. Martial metaphors and
medical justice: Implications for law, crime and deviance.
http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/arrigol.html, 2003.

12. Patch, P.C., and Arrigo, B.A. Police officer attitudes and use of discretion in situations
involving the mentally ill: The need to narrow the focus. International Journal of Law
and Psychiatry, 22(1): 23-35, 1999.

13. Arrigo, B.A., and Tasca, J. J. Right to refuse treatment, competency to be executed, and
therapeutic jurisprudence: Towards a systematic analysis. Law and Psychology Review,
23: 1-47, 1999.

14. Arrigo, B.A., and Bardwell, M.C. Law, psychology, and competency-to-stand-trial:
Problems with and implications for high profile cases. Criminal Justice Policy Review,
11(1): 16-43, 2000.

15. Arrigo, B.A., and Williams, C. R. The ethics of advocacy for the mentally ill:
Philosophic and ethnographic considerations. Seattle University Law Review, 24 (2):
245-295, 2000

16. Arrigo, B.A. Reviewing graduate training models in forensic psychology: Implications
for practice. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 1(1): 9-31, 2001.
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17. Arrigo, B.A. Transcarceration: A constitutive ethnography of mentally ill offenders.
The Prison Journal, 81(2): 162-186, 2001.

Reprinted in: Convict Criminology as Convict criminology and the mentally ill
offender: Prisoners of confinement. J.I. Ross and S.C. Richards (eds.), (pp. 267-
286). Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 2002.

18. Williams, C.R., and Arrigo, B. A. Law, psychology and the “new sciences:” Rethinking
mental illness and dangerousness. International Journal of Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology, 46(1): 6-29, 2002.

19. Arrigo, B.A. The critical perspective in psychological jurisprudence: Theoretical
advances and epistemological assumptions. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry,
25(1): 151-172, 2002.

20. Bardwell, M.C., and Arrigo, B. A. Competency to stand trial: A law, psychology, and
policy assessment. Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 30(2): 147-269, 2002.

21. Arrigo, B.A. “Psychology, forensic” entry prepared for the Encyclopedia of Crime &
Punishment, D. Levinson (ed.), (pp. 1295-1301). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.

22. Helms, J. L., Arrigo, B.A., and Krizan, C. A complicated relationship: Police
and juveniles. In Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology, N. Ribner (ed.), (pp. 44-
57). Monterey, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

23. Arrigo, B.A. Justice and the deconstruction of psychological jurisprudence: The case of
competency to stand trial. Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal, 7(1): 55-
88, 2003.

24. Arrigo, B.A. Psychology and the law: The critical agenda for citizen justice and radical
social change. Justice Quarterly, 20(2): 399-444, 2003.

Reprinted in: Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime,
and Society as The critical perspective in law-psychology research: New
directions in citizen justice and radical social change. B. A. Arrigo (ed.), (pp. 1-
42). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.

25. Arrigo, B.A. The ethics of therapeutic jurisprudence: A critical and theoretical inquiry
of law, psychology, and crime. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, 11(1): 23-43, 2004.

26. Arrigo, B.A. The inside out of the dangerous mentally ill: Topological applications to
law and social justice. In Lacan: Topologically Speaking. E. Sullivan and D.
Milovanovic (eds.), (pp. 150-173). New York: Other Press, 2004.

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27. Arena, M.P., and Arrigo, B.A. Media images, mental health law, and justice: A
constitutive response to the “competency” of Theodore Kacyznski. In Psychological
Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society, B.A. Arrigo (ed.),
(pp.99-125). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.

28. Helms, J.L., and Arrigo, B. A. The diminishing sanctity of youth. In
Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society, B.A.
Arrigo (ed.), (pp. 127-153). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.

29. Arrigo, B.A. Prospects for justice at the law-psychology divide: An agenda for theory,
research, and practice. In Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law,
Crime, and Society, B.A. Arrigo (ed.), (pp.201-230). Albany, NY: State University of
New York Press, 2004.

30. Shon, P., and Arrigo, B.A. Reality-based TV and police-citizen encounters: The
intertextual construction and situated meaning of mental illness-as-punishment.
Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology, 8(1): 59-85, 2006.

31. Arrigo, B. A. Towards a critical penology of the mentally ill offender: On law, ideology,
and the logic of “competency.” In Advances in Critical Criminology: Theory and
Application, W. S. DeKeseredy and B. Perry (eds.), (pp. 219-239). Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books, 2006.

32. Williams, C. R., and Arrigo, B. A. “Psychology, Use in the Courts” entry prepared for the
Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. D. Clark (Ed.),
(pp. 1234-1236).Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.

33. Arrigo, B. A. Punishment, freedom, and the culture of control: The case of brain imaging
and the law. American Journal of Law and Medicine, 33(3): 457-482, 2007.

34. Arrigo, B. A. and Fox, D.. Psychology and law: The crime of policy and the search for
justice. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, and S. Austin (Eds.), Critical psychology: An
introduction (2nd ed.) (pp. 159-175). London: Sage, 2009.

35. Sellers, B. G., and Arrigo, B. A. Adolescent transfer, developmental maturity, and
adjudicative competence: An ethical and justice policy inquiry. Journal of Criminal Law
and Criminology, 99(2): 435-488 2009.

36. Arrigo, B. A. Transforming corrections through psychological jurisprudence: A
preliminary review and critique of theory. In D. Polizzi and M. Braswell (Eds.),
Transforming Corrections: Humanistic Approaches to Corrections and Offender
Treatment (pp. 95-117). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.

37. Bersot, H., and Arrigo, B. A. Solitary confinement, inmate mental health, and cruel and
unusual punishment: An ethical and justice policy perspective. Journal of Theoretical and
Philosophical Criminology. 3(1) (in press), 2010.
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38. Bersot, H. Y., and Arrigo, B. A. The ethics of mechanical restraints in prisons and jails:
A preliminary inquiry from psychological jurisprudence. Journal of Forensic Psychology:
Research and Practice, 11(2) (in press), 2011.

B. Theory, Culture, and Society:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries

39. Arrigo, B.A. Deconstructing jurisprudence: An experiential feminist critique. The
Journal of Human Justice, 4 (1): 13-30, 1992.

Reprinted in: Legality and Illegality: Postmodernism, Semiotics, and the Law.
R. Janikowski and D. Milovanovic (eds.), (pp.23-46), New York: P. Lang, 1995.

Reprinted in: Red Feather Journal of Postmodern Criminology. T.R. Young,
(Ed).
www.tryoung.com/journals/JOURNAL-POMOCRIM/pomocrimeINDEX.html

40. Arrigo, B.A. The peripheral core of law and criminology: On postmodern social theory
and conceptual integration. Justice Quarterly, 12(3): 447-472, 1995.

Reprinted in: Integrative Criminology. G. Barak (ed.), (pp.25-50). Brookfield,
VT: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 1998.

41. Arrigo, B.A. [De]constructing classroom instruction: Theoretical and methodological
contributions of the postmodern sciences for crimino-legal education. Social Pathology,
1 (2): 115-148, 1995.

42. Arrigo, B.A. New directions in crime, law and social change: On psychoanalytic
semiotics, chaos theory, and postmodern ethics. Studies in the Social Sciences, 33: 101-
129, 1995.

43. Arrigo, B.A. Rethinking the language of law, justice, and community: Postmodern
feminist jurisprudence. In Radical Philosophy of Law: Contemporary Challenges to
Mainstream Legal Theory and Practice, D.S. Caudill and S. J. Gold (eds.), (pp. 88-107).
New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1995.

44. Arrigo, B.A. Subjectivity in law, medicine, and science: A Semiotic perspective on
punishment. In Punishment: Social Control and Coercion, C. Sistare (eds.), (pp. 69-92).
New York: P. Lang, 1995.

45. Arrigo, B.A. Reflections on the future of criminal justice: Issues for theory, method, and
practice. In Conscience, Consensus, Crossroads in Law, R. Kevelson (ed). (pp. 15-26),
New York: P. Lang, 1995.

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