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Dr. Michael Louis Radelet
2011 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI RECIPIENT
PhD 1977, Sociology
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder
Michael L. Radelet is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder. He served for 22 years on the faculty at the University of Florida before moving to Boulder in 2001. He was Chair of the Sociology Departments at the University of Florida from 1996-2001 and the University of Colorado from 2004-2009. In addition to his degree work, Radelet completed two years of postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Radelet’s research focuses on capital punishment, especially the issues of erroneous convictions, racial bias, public opinion, and medical involvement. In 1987 he coauthored (with Hugo Adam Bedau) a paper in Stanford Law Review that documented some 350 defendants who were erroneously convicted of potentially capital crimes, a paper that is widely credited with introducing the problem of erroneous convictions into the modern death penalty debate.
Among his studies on race and death sentencing was one in Illinois, conducted for Governor George Ryan and used by the governor as part of the rationale for commuting 167 dea
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Michael L. Radelet
American sociologist
Michael L. Radelet (born October 24, 1950),[1] is a sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a professor and chairs the Department of Sociology at the university. In his research, Radelet focuses on his interests in criminology, deviance, capital punishment, societal reaction to crime, racial disparities in death sentencing and crime victims. Radelet has taught courses covering introductory sociology, criminology for both undergraduate and graduate levels, capital punishment for both undergraduate and graduate levels, sociology of mental health and illness for both undergraduate and graduate levels, graduate seminar on health professions, social and ethical issues in medical practice, human development, statistics, and social problems.[2] He is the author of the book Facing the Death Penalty that was published in 1989, in which he describes the realities of capital punishment to those condemned.[3]
Career
[edit]Radelet has been a professor at many universities and has taught in many fields of study throughout his career. Before his work at University of Colorado Boulder, Radelet worked as a professor and the chair of the department of sociology at the University of Florida, where