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Dr. Jim Nolan
Assistant Professor
Division of Sociology and Anthropology
West Virginia University
 Dr. Nolan teaches courses on crime, criminality, and social control, including a course on hate crimes at West Virginia University. His research currently focuses on police procedures, crime measurement, hate crimes and homicide. Dr. Nolan’s professional career began as a police officer in Wilmington, Delaware. In 13 years with that department, he worked in a variety of divisions including patrol, community policing, organized crime and vice, and planning and research. In 1993 Dr. Nolan was the project director of the community-policing component of the Weed & Seed Program in Wilmington, Delaware (one of the first 16 sites). He is a 1992 graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy. Just prior to joining the faculty at West Virginia University, Dr. Nolan was chief of the Crime Analysis, Research, and Development Unit of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. His unit provided management oversight for the National Hate Crime Data Collection Program in the United States. In recent years he has published several articles in professional sociological journals on the topic of hate crime data collection.
Dr. Nolan is one of the key contributors to the internationally acclaimed Law Enforcement Officer Program on Combating Hate Crime, a pioneering training program developed by Cardinal Point Strategies and sponsored by the Office for democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in cooperation with the 55 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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