College of Arts and Sciences - Criminal Justice Faculty

Douglas W. Kieso, CPA, MAS, JD, PhD

• B.S. in Accounting, Northern Illinois University
• M.A.S. in Accounting, Northern Illinois University
• J.D., Illinois College of Law
• Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society, University of California-Irvine

I am an associate professor and have been teaching in the Criminal Justice Program at AU since the Fall of 2004.
I grew up in DeKalb, Illinois where I also attended Northern Illinois University. At NIU I competed on the men’s gymnastics team and graduated with a B.S. (1984) and M.A.S. (1986) from the Accountancy Department.

I moved to Los Angeles where I was a CPA and worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. as an auditor in their small business division.  In 1988 I went to law school at the University of Illinois-Champaign and upon graduation worked for the mid-size law firm of D'Ancona & Pflaum in Chicago as a business/real estate attorney.

From 1993 to 1996 I was a professor at AU in the School of Business and Professional Studies where I taught accounting and business law courses.  In 1996, I then enrolled in the Ph.D. program of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California at Irvine and graduated in the Fall of 2003.

In addition, I am the NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative (FAR) at AU and therefore responsible for certifying the eligibility of all AU student-athletes for practice and competition.  As the FAR I am the Chair of the Athletic Committee and serve as a general advisor for all the student-athletes.

I am the author of many accounting study guides that accompany accounting text books and recently had a book published called: “Unjust Sentencing and The California Three Strikes Law.”   Currently I am involved in a research project evaluating the effects on delinquency of youth in a city-wide after-school program in the City of Aurora.  My future research interests are in the area of white-collar crime.

• B.S. in Criminal Justice, Illinois State University
• M.S. in Criminal Justice, Illinois State University
• Ph.D. in  School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University

Greetings. I am an assistant professor for the Criminal Justice Program at AU.  I grew up in Lansing, Illinois, and attended Thornton Fractional South High School.  I earned my bachelor’s (1995) and master’s (1997) degree in Criminal Justice from Illinois State University.  I earned my Ph.D. (2004) degree from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. 

Within the field of criminal justice, I have been employed as a youth crisis interventionist for Project Oz (Bloomington, Illinois), a law clerk for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (Chicago, Illinois), a criminal investigator in the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (Washington, DC), a security executive/investigator for the Target Corporation, a professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Advisor for the American Criminal Justice Association at Lakeland College (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), and a consultant with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (Madison, Wisconsin).  One of my most recognized research projects has been an ongoing evaluation of a community anti-drug initiative called Neighbors Against Drugs led by Sheboygan Police Officer Todd Priebe and Chief David Kirk. This project received international recognition at the 2005 Problem-Oriented Policing conference and was named as a finalist for the Herman Goldstein award.

My most recent book publication (April 2007) is Policing Public Transportation with LFB Scholarly Publishing.  I have also published in the areas of private security, interviewing/interrogation, criminal justice education, and community policing.