About

Ben Stickle, Ph.D., is a researcher focusing on property crime and policing. He is widely recognized through his research contributions on metal theft, package theft, and emergent crime trends. Ben is a Professor of Criminal Justice Administration at Middle Tennessee State University, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Loss Prevention Research Council, and Vice President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. He has nearly twenty years of law enforcement and private security experience and leverages this experience by collaborating with police and corrections agencies resulting in over 10 million in external funding.