Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1970
• M.A., Central Michigan University, 1989
• M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1966
• A.B., Tarkio College, 1963

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Introduction to Sociology
• Criminology
• Police and Community Relations
• Social Justice
• The Family

Research Interests

• Social, Criminal and Restorative Justice

Selected Publications

• Larry L. Tifft and Dennis Sullivan. "Needs-based Anarchist Criminology." Pp. 259-277 in Stuart Henry and Mark Lanier (Eds.), The Essential Criminology Reader. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2005.
• Dennis Sullivan and Larry L. Tifft. Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Lives, 2nd edition. Wonsey, NY: Willow Tree Press, 2005.
• Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft. Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective. NY: Routledge International was released in paperback. 2006.
• Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft (Eds.), Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective. London: Routledge, 2006. 
• "What Are the Implications of Restorative Justice for Society and Our Lives?" (with Dennis Sullivan). In Howard Zehr and Barb Toews (Eds.), Critical Issues in Restorative Justice (pp. 387-400). Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press and Collompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. 2004.
• Tifft, Larry L., Dennis Sullivan and Katherine Sullivan. Justice Without Violence: Exploring the Transformative and Economic Dimensions of the Restorative Movement. (forthcoming).
• Tifft, Larry.L. and Dennis Sullivan. "A Needs-based, Social Harms Approach to Defining Crime." What is Crime? Controversy Over the Definition of Crime's Content. Eds. Stuart Henry and Mark Lanier. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Chapter 6.
• "Social Justice and Criminologies: A Commentary." Contemporary Justice Review 1 (2000): 43 - 52.