Dr. Gene Ira Katz, DMCJ

Gene Ira Katz holds a Doctor of Management degree in Criminal Justice and taught at Colorado Technical University’s College of Criminal Justice & Health Services from 2011 to 2024, covering a wide variety of courses in criminal justice, psychology and human services, including Criminal Profiling, Victimology, Juvenile Delinquency and more. In addition to writing for American Police Beat, Dr. Katz authored the recent International Impact award-winning book Reconsidering Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement (Kendall-Hunt), and has also written for Law Enforcement Today, Command, US-China Law Review and numerous other publications. In recent years, Dr. Katz has been presenting workshops, lectures and seminars for a wide variety of professional organizations, including the Academy of Criminal Justices Sciences, Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police and Mid-Atlantic States Correctional Association, among others. Also a psychotherapist, he has provided counseling and therapeutic interventions with incarcerated populations in municipal, county and state prisons, as well as with at-risk youth in group homes, patients confined to forensic psychiatric facilities, and sex offenders.