Auteur: Richard D. Hartley

Richard D. Hartley is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He teaches courses relating to criminal courts and the administration of justice as well as research methods and statistics. Dr. Hartley’s research interests include prosecutorial and judicial discretion, race/ethnicity and crime, and quantitative methods. He has been involved with a number of research projects analyzing sentencing outcomes, especially those for federal narcotics and immigration offenders. Some of his recent and forthcoming publications appear in Aggression and Violent Behavior, Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Review, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Pediatrics.