Dr. Robert W. Taylor is a highly respected author, educator, administrator, researcher and consultant regarding policing and criminal justice issues. Bob currently serves as the Executive Director of the W. W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute, a national “think tank” on urban policing imbedded inside the Dallas Police Department. Before he helped launch the Caruth Police Institute, Bob chaired the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas for nearly 14 years. He remains a tenured, full professor there while also serving as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of State and numerous other federal, state, and local agencies. He acts as a lead instructor in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training-SLATT program responsible for training all law enforcement and other related criminal justice professionals on Middle Eastern groups and issues.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Taylor has studied police responses to crime and terrorism. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Far East Asia. Dr. Taylor has authored or co-authored over 200 articles, books and manuscripts that focus on terrorism, police administration and management, police procedures, drug trafficking and criminal justice policy. He has published several leading textbooks through Prentice-Hall and McGraw-Hill, with two more scheduled for publication in 2011. He is a member of the Council of Experts for the prestigious Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence in Washington, D.C.; a member of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy for the European Consortium for Political Research, and a national board member of USP3 (U.S. Private-Public Partnership).
Dr. Taylor has an extensive background in academic and professional criminal justice, having taught at four major universities and served as a sworn police officer and major crimes detective (in Portland, Oregon) for over six years. Recently, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences presented Dr. Taylor with the 2008 O.W. Wilson Award “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to police education, research and practice.” Dr. Taylor is a graduate of Michigan State University (Master of Science) and Portland State University (Doctor of Philosophy.)
Dr. Robert W. Taylor is a highly respected author, educator, administrator, researcher and consultant regarding policing and criminal justice issues. Bob currently serves as the Executive Director of the W. W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute, a national “think tank” on urban policing imbedded inside the Dallas Police Department. Before he helped launch the Caruth Police Institute, Bob chaired the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas for nearly 14 years. He remains a tenured, full professor there while also serving as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of State and numerous other federal, state, and local agencies. He acts as a lead instructor in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training-SLATT program responsible for training all law enforcement and other related criminal justice professionals on Middle Eastern groups and issues.