Program Commitee

Program Committe

We proudly announce the designation of the new program committees for each conference theme. Each program committee is formed among distinguished professors who work together with the Turkish National Police for a long time. They will be assisted by PhD students who study in various doctoral programs across the United States.

These committees have undertaken very important tasks which include designing all sessions according to the papers and presentations of the participants. In addition, a second important duty of the Committees will be to compose concluding remarks of the conference sessions. We thank all of them in advance for their invaluable contribution to the conference.

Following is the list of program committee members:

THEME 1- Comparative Perspectives on Democracy and Policing
Charles Wellford, PhD	Professor of Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Maryland, USA
Peter K. Manning, PhD	Brooks Professor of College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, USA
Yusuf Z. Özcan, PhD	Professor in the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Halim Iltas, MA (Assistant)	Police Superintendent of TNP and PhD Student at George Mason University, USA

THEME 2- Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement Agencies
Chris W. Eskridge, PhD	Executive Director of the American Society of Criminology, USA
Halil İ. Bahar, PhD	Vice President of Turkish National Police Academy, Turkey
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld, PhD	Chair of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Selcuk Atak, MA (Assistant)	Police Captain of TNP and PhD Student at Graduate Center of City University of New York

THEME 3- International Perspective on Crime
Cindy J. Smith, PhD	Chief of International Center of National Institute of Justice (NIJ), USA
Jay Albanese, PhD	Chair of Criminal Justice Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Louise Shelley, PhD	Director of TraCCC at the American University, USA
Ismail Yilmaz, MA (Assistant)	Police Superintendent of TNP and PhD Candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University

THEME 4- Terrorism: A Global Problem
Charles B. Strozier, PhD	Director of Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA
Edmund F. McGarrell, PhD	Director of School of Criminal Justice and Executive Co-Director of Global Community Security Institute at Michigan State University, USA
Leslie W. Kennedy, PhD	Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers- Newark University, USA
Ahmet Celik, MA (Assistant)	Police Superintendent of TNP and PhD Student at School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Newark

THEME 5 - Democracy and New Governance in the 21st Century
Emile Sahliyeh, Ph.D.	Professor of Department of Political Science, International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, USA
Hans-Jörg Albrecht, PhD	Director of Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
Richard Langhorne, Ph.D.	Co-Director of Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA
Ahmet D. Bitmez, MA (Assistant)	Police Superintendent of TNP and PhD Student at Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University