Dr. Nancy Marion
Title: Chair, Professor, Internship Coordinator; Fellow, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics
Fellow
Dept/Program: Political Science
Office: Olin Hall 204
Phone: 330-972-5551
Email: nmarion@uakron.edu
Biography
Dr. Marion is a professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice, and currently serves as Chair of the Political Science Department. She teaches courses on American Government, Politics of Criminal Justice, Policy Problems in Criminal Justice, and Political Scandals.
Her research focuses on criminal justice policy, and the interplay between politics and criminal justice. This involves not only how the federal, state and local governments create criminal justice policies and agencies, but also how politics affects how criminal justice is implemented by local, state and federal agencies.
She is the author of many books, including A History of Federal Crime Control Initiatives, A Primer in the Politics of Criminal Justice, and Crime and Criminal Justice in Ohio. She has also published numerous articles in various professional journals on how politics and criminal justice are related.
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton
Courses
POLIT 361 Politics of the Criminal Justice System
POLIT 437 Government Versus Organized Crime
POLIT 443 Political Scandals and Corruption
POLIT 480 Policy Problems: Criminal Justice
POLIT 622 Seminar: Alternatives to Violence at Home & Abroad