B.A. Criminology, California State University at San Jose (“With Distinction” and “Departmental Honors in Criminology”)
M.S. Criminology, California State University at San Jose
Doctor of Criminology (under full scholarship), University of California at Berkeley
Professor Emeritus, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Experience as a private consultant and expert witness for both plaintiff and defense in over 2,000 cases of civil litigation arising from police actions, private security operations, and jail and confinement conditions in nearly every state in the nation.
Under a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Dr. Kirkham developed the nation’s first systematic peer-oriented human relations training program (Police: The Human Dimension). The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) distributed the series to police training directors of all fifty states. This pioneering effort paved the way for extensive use of peer-oriented simulation training of police officers throughout the nation.
Executive Director and Certification Board Member of the National Academy of Police Specialists (N.A.P.S.)
Associate Member: International Association of Chiefs of Police (I.A.C.P.)
Former Member: Police Benevolent Association (P.B.A.)
Certified Police Officer, State of Florida (1973–1992)
Author, with Professor James D. White, of a series of police civil liability training videos and instructional manuals currently in use throughout the United States (see “Publications”) in the training of both line officers and administrators.
Past Member, Board of Directors, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (A.E.L.E.), a non-profit legal research organization founded by Fred Inbau, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law Emeritus at Northwestern University. It serves the law enforcement profession through amicus curiae briefs, publications, workshops, and research programs.
Member, Board of Directors, International Law Enforcement Stress Association (ILESA)
Director, National Conference on Stress in Policing (Orlando, Florida)
Callahan Commission, Massachusetts Police Training Council
British Metropolitan Police, Peel Centre
New York City Police Department, Police Benevolent Association
NBC News, for proposed documentary on convicted mass murderer Theodore Bundy
Detroit Police Officers’ Association
Philadelphia Police Department
Pennsylvania State Police
Virginia State Police
Maine State Police
Yonkers, New York, Police Department
Police Officers Association of Michigan
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Department
Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Department
Dayton, Ohio, Police Department
Roanoke, Virginia, Police Department
Toronto Metropolitan Police
United States Military Police Training Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama
United States Treasury Department, Consolidated Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Virginia
Northwestern Traffic Institute
International Association of Women Police
North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association
Advisory Council on Sheriff Affairs, Lorain, Ohio
Florida Sheriffs Association
Florida Peace Officers Association
State of Indiana, Fraternal Order of Police
Southern Police Institute
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (L.E.A.A.)
Kenosha, Wisconsin Professional Police Association
Ohio Association of Police Chiefs
Western Colorado Peace Officers Association
National Association of State Directors of Law Enforcement Training (N.A.S.D.L.E.T.)
Florida Police Standards and Training Commission
Jacksonville, Florida Police Department
St. Petersburg, Florida Police Department
Tallahassee, Florida Police Department
Office of the State Attorney, 16th Judicial Circuit of Florida (for investigative evaluation of organizational and personnel problems within the Key West, Florida Police Department)
Office of the State Attorney, 15th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Palm Beach County, Florida
Office of the State Attorney, Miami, Florida
Member, Selection Board for Chief of Police for Fort Walton Beach, Florida
New Port Richey, Florida Police Department
National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (for police stress research)
Leon County Sheriff’s Department
Florida Highway Patrol
National College of District Attorneys
California District Attorneys’ Association
Florida Criminal Justice Educators Association
Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (A.E.L.E.), Evanston, Illinois (Past Board Member)
Florida Public Defenders Association
Florida Professional Practices Council
State of Utah Peace Officers Association
Columbia, South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Florida Police Task Force, Governor’s Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
Utah League of Cities