Biography
Glenn Walters started teaching at Kutztown University during the 2011-2012 academic year. Prior to this, he served as a clinical psychologist for the U.S. Army and as a psychologist and drug program coordinator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The majority of his time in the U.S. Army was spent working with military prisoners at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. After an honorable discharge from the Army, he spent the next 27 years working at three different Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities: the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, the Federal Correctional Institution-Fairton, New Jersey, and the Federal Correctional Institution-Schuylkill, Pennsylvania. He retired from federal service in 2011.
Dr. Walters has written over 350 articles, books, and book chapters, and has been published in a wide variety of criminology, criminal justice, and psychology journals: Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Law and Human Behavior, Psychological Assessment, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Dr. Walters currently serves on the editorial boards of three journals: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Law and Human Behavior, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.
Publications
Books and Monographs:
Tirrell, F. J., Aldridge, R. G., Brown, G., Alford, J., & Walters, G. D. Social and psychological characteristics of rapists and rape (monograph). Fort Leavenworth, KS: United States Disciplinary Barracks, 1983.
Walters, G. D. The criminal lifestyle: Patterns of serious criminal conduct. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Walters, G. D., Heffron, M., & Whitaker, D. The CHOICE Comprehensive Drug Program (monograph). Fairton, NJ: Federal Correctional Institution-Fairton, 1991.
Walters, G. D. Foundations of criminal science. Volume I: The development of knowledge. New York: Praeger, 1992.
Walters, G. D. Foundations of criminal science. Volume II: The use of knowledge. New York: Praeger, 1992.
Walters, G. D. Drugs and Crime in Lifestyle Perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1994.
Walters, G. D. Escaping the journey to nowhere: The psychology of alcohol and other drug abuse. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1994.
Walters, G. D. Substance abuse and the new road to recovery: A practitioner's guide. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
Walters, G. D. Changing lives of crime and drugs: Intervening with the substance abusing criminal offender. Chichester, England: Wiley, 1998.
Walters, G. D. The addiction concept: Working hypothesis or self-fulfilling prophesy. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Walters, G. D. Beyond behavior: Construction of an overarching psychological theory of lifestyles. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2000.
Walters, G. D. The self-altering process: Exploring the dynamic nature of lifestyle development and change. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2000.
Walters, G. D. Criminal belief systems: An Integrated-Interactive Theory of Lifestyles. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
Walters, G. D. Personality theory in context. Allentown, PA: Center for Lifestyle Studies (Morrisville, NC: Lulu), 2004.
Walters, G. D. Lifestyle Theory: Past, Present, and Future. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2006.
Walters, G. D. Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS): Professional manual. Allentown, PA: Center for Lifestyle Studies (Morrisville, NC: Lulu), 2006.
Walters, G. D. Crime in a psychological context: From career criminals to criminal careers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012.
Walters, G. D. Drugs, Crime, and Their Relationships: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2014.
Walters, G. D. Modelling the criminal lifestyle: Theorizing at the edge of chaos. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Walters, G. D. Closing the integration gap in criminology: The case for criminal thinking. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Walters, G. D. Criminality and crime: A social-cognitive-developmental theory of delinquent and criminal behavior. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
Book Chapters:
Walters, G. D. Schizophrenia. In R. L. Greene (ed.), The MMPI: Its Use in Specific Diagnostic Groups (pp 50-73). San Diego, CA: Grune & Stratton, 1988.
Walters, G. D. Identifying and confronting resistance in lifestyle criminal offenders. In G. A. Harris (ed.), Tough Customers: Counseling Unwilling Clients (pp. 25-42). Laurel, MD: American Correctional Association, 1991.
Walters, G. D., & Di Fazio, R. Psychopathy and the criminal lifestyle: Similarities and differences. In C. B. Gacono (Ed.), The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy (pp. 369-384). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000.
Walters, G. D. The fragmented F�hrer: A psychohistorical account of Hitler's lifestyles. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychological Research: 3 (pp. 207-234). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001.
Walters, G. D. The lifestyle paradigm: Theory, research, and practice. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychological Research: 2 (pp. 47-80). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001.
Walters, G. D. Overcoming offender resistance to abandoning a criminal lifestyle. In B. K. Welo (Ed.), Tough Customers: Counseli
