Robert HanserDr. Robert Hanser is the past Coordinator of the Department of Criminal Justice, and the Director of the Institute of Law Enforcement at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He is also a past administrator of North Delta Regional Training Academy, a regional police and corrections academy in Northeast Louisiana. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, Dr. Hanser conducts pre-service and in-service training for police officers, jailers, and mental health workers and is an active Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trainer for Northeast Louisiana. He is also the current Director of the Public Defense Training Academy (PDTA) which provides an array of training events for defense attorneys throughout Louisiana. In addition, he is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the states of Texas and Louisiana and conducts group-work with substance abuse and domestic batterer offenders in prison and on community supervision. His research and teaching interests focus on mental health, multicultural, and multinational issues in criminal justice. Dr. Hanser has authored and co-authored numerous textbooks and peer-reviewed articles and is an active researcher, both nationally and internationally. Read More Read Less