Keith A. Wilmot, Ph.D. |
Dr. Wilmot currently
resides in Minnesota where he is conducting research on sentencing in
Minnesota. Dr. Keith A. Wilmot was of
late an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice, Law, & Society
at California University of Pennsylvania, where he taught courses on criminal
courts, criminological theory, and criminal law. He received his Ph.D. and master’s degree
in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). His bachelor’s degree in law enforcement
and corrections was also obtained at UNO. Dr. Wilmot’s prior practitioner experience
includes a variety of law enforcement, investigative, and intelligence
gathering positions. As a university
undergraduate student he worked for the Omaha, NE, police department as a
Cadet in both the Juvenile Section and Detective Bureau fielding telephone
complaints and case processing. While
serving in the military, Dr. Wilmot was a Special Agent with U.S. Military
Intelligence (Army). He served in
Germany where he participated in both offensive and defensive
counter-espionage operations. Upon leaving the military, Dr. Wilmot worked as
an Investigator for both the Douglas County Public Defender’s office and the
Douglas County Attorney’s office (Omaha, NE), where he conducted pre-trial
investigations for the public defender and investigated criminal fraud cases
for the county attorney. Dr. Wilmot
was also a trained and certified law enforcement officer with the State of
Iowa where he was employed as a Special Agent with the Iowa Division of
Criminal Investigations, Des Moines, IA.
As a special agent in Iowa, he served primarily as an undercover agent
in both drug investigations and the state’s largest stolen property ‘sting’
operation. Dr. Wilmot was previously employed at
Bemidji State University, MN; the University of North Texas; and most
recently, as a visiting professor at Florida Atlantic University. He has also worked as a Research Associate
at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
(UK). While in the UK, he participated
in a Home Office research project on ‘sentencing and its outcomes,’ a project
which focused on sentencing decisions of youth and adult offenders in the
English criminal justice system. Dr. Wilmot’s research interests include
courts and legal decision-making, federal and state sentencing systems, the
effect of race/ethnicity on sentence outcomes in drug crimes, and
constitutional due-process issues. His
presentations, publications, and current research reflect these
interests. He is also a member and
participant of both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. |