Dr Edward Ryan

Dr. E. “Ted” Scott Ryan, joined the Criminal Justice Faculty in 1975, the first year that the newly independent Criminal Justice Department at MU became one of only four universities in Pennsylvania to offer a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice.

He has been very active at Mansfield in developing internship opportunities for students , in recalling the fact that in one year his students obtained more criminal justice internship scholarships than Penn State, which is ten times its size.

Dr. Ryan earned his Bachelors Degree from Fordham College and his Army Commission as an Artillery Officer from the ROTC, in attending Fordham on both an academic and Child of a Deceased War Veteran Scholarships.

He earned an MPA from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (in being in the first Criminal Justice Masters Degree Program), and a MA and Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at Albany (in being in the first Criminal Justice Doctoral Program) in receiving scholarships and fellowships at both institutions.

He was accorded the first criminal justice Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship for his criminal justice empirical study of conflict; and he was the first Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Criminal Justice at the U.S. Dept. of Justice in continuing his research into conflict resolution.

More recently, he presented his conflict resolution analysis as it relates to NATO at the request of the Trans Atlantic Quarterly, which is published in every NATO country.

Ted has written ten books, six of which are available at the MU bookstore and at amazon.com. He has also published dozens of articles in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Russian, in peer review journals of criminology, forensics, education, psychology, philosophy, political science, international security, and theology and theosophy.

Professor Ryan introduced the first Theology of Crime Seminar at Cornell University six months prior to 9/11, based upon his internationally acclaimed book, The Theology of Crime.

He authored Police and Probation: Peace Officers in Conflict in Keeping the Peace, which is the only national study of police and probation interaction.

He wrote the first two books on forensic counseling (A Forensic Counseling Approach and Juvenile Forensic Counseling ) by request of the American College of Forensic Examiners and the American Psychotherapy Association, in serving as the Charter and Emeritus Chair of the American Board of Forensic Counselors. He recently completed a third book on forensic counseling, From Therapeutic Justice to Forensic Counseling, which is a compendium of his peer review publications on the subject in criminology, psychology, education, philosophy and futuristic journals.

Dr. Ryan has conducted Forensic Counseling Seminars and Workshops for Juvenile Justice Commissions, The National Gang Task Force, the New Jersey Education Association, the American College of Forensic Examiners, and the American Psychotherapy Association, among others. He has also been invited to Canada to work with development boards dealing with youth at risk, along with mental health professionals specializing in psychiatric advocacy for crime victims.

He has worked as a criminal justice consultant over many years in a variety of capacities to include educational development through the graduate school level .

In the last few years, he has also worked as a forensic consultant on murder cases in providing forensic research, analysis, technical and personnel resources.

His writings on Metaphysical Criminology were published in a special monograph of The Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research, in reference to which the Society for Metaphysical Criminological Analysis and Application, SMCAA, was established with the American Philosophical Association. The Special Monograph on Metaphysical Criminology is available at the MU bookstore and at amazon.com under Dr. E. Scott Ryan, along with five other professional publications dealing with comprehensive, in depth criminological analysis.

In addition, Dr. Ryan’s novel, Call Me Vladimir, based upon actual events leading to the fall of the Soviet Union, is available on amazon.com under the title of the novel. There is also a cognitive art print based on the novel being produced at MU by Dr. Ryan in conjunction with graphic designer, Phil Ogden, which is available by contacting Phil Ogden at pogden@mansfield.edu or 570 662-4608. Profits from the proceeds of the sale of the cognitive art print support the Sports Education Alliance, SEA, and Forensics Against Crime Teams, FACT.

Dr. Ryan is currently a Senior Fellow for The International Centre for Strategic Innovation in producing studies, programs and consultations that introduce Environmental Criminology to the attention of international decision makers in the public and private sectors.

In his spare time, Dr. Ryan is a Tae Kwon Do practicing Black Belt and survival swimming advocate.