Mark S. Fleisher
Phone: 330-672-4078
Fax: 330-672-4711
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Mark S. Fleisher (Ph.D.) is a cultural anthropologist and anthropological linguist. He has extensive research experience in federal prisons and among youth gangs and the homeless in Seattle; youth gangs in Kansas City, Missouri, and Champaign, Illinois; and Moroccan street youth in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Justice (in collaboration with a Dutch gang researcher, Free University of Amsterdam), American Philosophical Society, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, U.S. Census Bureau, and the Department of Justice—Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the National Institute of Justice. In 2006 he and his colleague, Dr. Jessie Krienert (Illinois State University) completed a nation-wide study of the cultural of prison sexual violence with a grant from the National Institute of Justice.
His publications include journal articles and book chapters on corrections and youth gangs, as well as four books: Warehousing Violence (Sage, 1988); and the two-awarding winning books, Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995) and Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998); and the co-edited volume, Crime and Employment: Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections (2003, AltaMira). He is editor of a refereed book series, Violence Research and Policy, AltaMira Publications, Walnut Creek: California, which has published several books on domestic and international gangs. He has done street gang and prison gang training at the National Institute of Corrections and for local police jurisdictions, the National Major Gang Taskforce, and California Gang Investigators Association, among other regional anti-gang groups. He has conducted strategic planning workshops for correctional and law enforcement officials on community-based anti-gang initiatives.
Prior to join the staff of the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Dr. Fleisher was Begun Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He taught criminal justice at Illinois State University, cultural anthropology at Washington State University, and linguistics in the anthropology department of Columbia University. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, in the Western and North Central Region. He conducted cultural and linguistic research in central Mexico; linguistics research in highland Guatemala; applied educational linguistics in Sulawesi, Indonesia; and linguistics research on a Salish reservation on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, and on a Nootkan reserve on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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230 Carol A. Cartwright Hall
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
Phone: 330-672-7917
Email: kretherf@kent.edu