Rick Ruddell

Rick Ruddell is the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair in Police Studies at the University of Regina. Prior to his academic career he was a supervisor and manager within the Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing in Saskatchewan, Canada. Rick Ruddell has also served as Director of Operational Research for the Correctional Service of Canada. A graduate of the Ph.D. program in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Rick Ruddell's taught at the California State University - Chico, for five years, and he also served as Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Eastern Kentucky University for three years. His scholarly work has focused on the operations of the criminal justice system and has been published in over 50 scholarly works and seven books.