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FACULTY PROFILE

Peter Venturelli, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Chair

Huelgi Hall 206
219-464-5306
Peter.Venturelli@valpo.edu

Biography

I have been a faculty member at Valparaiso University for over 21 years. Valparaiso University is home to me and I continually experience that my teaching, researching, and administrative work is stimulating and rewrding. I have consistently stayed here at this university largely because of the superior quality of Valpo's faculty, students, administrators, and its warm and spiritually inspiring ambiance.

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology - University of Chicago 1981
M.A. in Sociology - University of Chicago 1978
B.A. in Sociology and Psychology - Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 1972

Research Interests

Drug Use and Abuse in Society
Social Psychology of Urban Life Race and Ethnicity Deviance and Social Control Urban Sociology Qualitative Methods Urban Community Studies Juvenile Delinquency

Publications

In Drugs, Crime & Justice: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd Edition
- “Drugs in Schools: Myths and Realities" 2003
Interrogating Social Justice: Politics, Culture, and Identity.
- “Do the Current Social and Psychological Theories Really Explain the Initial Causes of Drug Abuse?” 1999
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, Volume Four
- “Drugs, A Social Taxonomy of.” 2000
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 567 1030.
- “Drugs in Schools: Myths and Reality.” January, 2000
Family and Community
- "Tuscan American Families.” 1983
Human Organization 41
- "Institutions in an Ethnic District." 1982

Books

Drugs and Society, 10th Edition
- Glen Hanson, Peter J. Venturelli, and Annette Fleckenstein, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc 2008
Drugs and Society, 8th (2004) and 9th (2006) Editions
- Glen Hanson, Peter J. Venturelli, and Annette Fleckenstein, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Drugs and Society, 4th (1995), 5th (1998), 6th (2001) and 7th (2002 Editions
- Glen Hanson, Peter J. Venturelli, and Annette Fleckenstein, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Drug Use in America: Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives
- Jones and Barlett Publishers, Inc. 1994
Drugs and Society, 3rd Edition
- Weldon Witters, Peter J. Venturelli and Glen Hanson, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. 1992
Drugs and Society, 2nd Edition.
- Weldon Witters, Peter J. Venturelli and Glen Hanson, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. 1988