Dr. Alex Holsinger

Alex Holsinger received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 1999. Throughout his time at the University of Cincinnati and in the 23 years since he has assisted local, state, and Federal agencies implement Evidence-Based criminal justice practices. Specifically, Alex has overseen the implementation and validation of several different risk and need assessment procedures, improving correctional agencies’ capacity to build case plans for offenders, driving rehabilitative intervention and facilitating reentry after a period of incarceration. He has also developed original psychometric assessment procedures that are currently in use. Most recently Alex has assisted with the development of a localized pretrial risk assessment, designed to support pretrial decision-making. Much of Alex’s work appears in his field’s top peer-reviewed journals, as well as periodicals for practitioners bridging the gap between theory and practice. Alex has been on faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at University of Missouri – Kansas City since 1999 though for the last several years he has served as Associate Dean for faculty affairs in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. During his tenure at UMKC, Alex has continued an active publication and research agenda. His teaching areas include the undergraduate and graduate statistics sequences, research methods (specifically methods of program evaluation), correctional rehabilitation and treatment (graduate), community corrections, and criminal justice in the popular media.

If you would like to contact Dr. Holsinger, please email him at: holsingera@umkc.edu