Dr. Kathryn Golden
Professor, Criminal Justice Program

• Dr. Kathryn Golden has been a professor of criminal justice at the College of DuPage since 1983 and over the years she has taught a variety of criminal justice courses and was program coordinator for 16 years.

• Professor Golden has a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Bridgewater State College, a Master of Arts Degree in English from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Arts degree in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University, where she was one of the first graduates of that degree program. Prior to her arrival at the College of DuPage, she was a faculty member at the Department of Law Enforcement Administration at Western Illinois University. In 1991 she received her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she did her dissertation research on the social psychological adjustments of teenagers in the Naperville area.

• Over the years, Professor. Golden has been involved in a number of projects in the field concerning police, court and juvenile delinquency programs. She has published several research articles in these areas in Criminology, Criminal Justice Review and the Journal of Police Science and Administration. She is also a past recipient of the Divisional Outstanding Faculty Award.

• During this academic year, she will be teaching sections of Criminal Justice 100 (Introduction to Criminal Justice) and Criminal Justice 240 (Juvenile Delinquency) in the classroom and in the Center for Independent Learning. For more information about these courses or to answer questions you may have about the Criminal Justice Program, you can contact Dr. Golden at (630) 942-2488 or e-mail at goldenk@cdnet.cod.edu
  
  

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