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 Bill Shaw
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Email: shawb@nsula.edu
Education
M.S. Criminal Justice,
University of North
Texas
M.A. Social Science, Northwestern
State
University
Areas of Interest
Criminal Law
Theories of Criminal Behavior
Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice
Bill is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, joining the NSU faculty fall of 2005. Bill is a retired peace officer, beginning his law enforcement career with the State of
Louisiana
’s Office of Parks and Recreation. A 1984 graduate of the
Louisiana
State
Police
Academy
, Bill worked in
Louisiana
as a Historic Site Manager and later as a deputy for the Moorehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office. Moving to
Texas
, he worked for the Mineral Wells Police Department, first as a patrol officer and then as a Detective. While working on his M.S. at the
University
of
North Texas
, he taught as an adjunct for
Weatherford
College
in both their academic program and for their police academy. He retired from MWPD in 1998 as a Detective Sergeant in order to begin teaching full-time. After teaching for
Lee
College
in
Baytown
,
Texas
and
Weatherford
College
, Bill moved to
Pineville
,
Louisiana
where he taught Criminal Justice for
Louisiana
College
for five years.
Bill is a native of
Natchitoches
and a graduate of
Northwestern
State
University
. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, a NSU graduate student of Clinical Psychology and his children Grace, Faith, and James David.
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