Dr. Kathrine A Johnson

Dr. Kathrine Johnson is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of UWF’s Criminal Justice Program at UWF Emerald Coat in Fort Walton Beach. Her research examines the impacts of holding offenders in jail because of a violation of probation, risk assessment tools for pretrial release, the detrimental consequences of criminalizing homelessness, factors in sentencing of habitual offenders, the use of GPS tracking systems to monitor offenders, and a case study of Florida’s 10-20-lifers – offenders who broke state laws involving crimes with firearms.

Johnson, who joined the UWF Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2000, also has researched pedagogical issues such as distance learning, international collaborative teaching, and virtual interactive teaching and learning. Criminal Justice Policy Review, Issues in Information Systems, Journal of Criminal Justice Education and Journal of Offender Monitoring are among the peer-reviewed journals publishing her work.

Johnson earned a doctorate in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania after she received bachelor and master’s degrees in Criminal Justice from Illinois State University. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, ranging from Race/Ethnicity/Gender and Crime to Substance Abuse and the Offender, Research Methods, Courts, and Corrections. In 2015 she received UWF’s Excellence in Teaching Award.