MURFREESBORO — For
the third time in his career, an MTSU professor has won one of his profession’s
highest honors.
Carter F. Smith, a lecturer in the Department of Criminal
Justice, received the Frederick Milton Thrasher Award from the “Journal of Gang
Research” Aug. 8 at the International Gang Specialist Training Conference in
Chicago.
The Thrasher Award was established in 1992 “to honor and
recognize superior scholarship, leadership, accomplishments and service
contributions by individuals and by programs in dealing with public safety
issues like that posed by gangs,” as stated on the award certificate.
While Smith has won the honor twice before, this is the
first Thrasher Award to single out his “superior scholarship.”
Smith is retired from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations
Command, for which he served for more than 22 years, 15 of those at Fort
Campbell, Kentucky. At Fort Campbell, he established the Army’s first gang and
extremist investigations team.
He provided and directed the security of several U.S. Army
bases, supervised multinational fraud and theft investigations and conducted
various criminal and cybercrime investigations in Germany, South Korea, Panama
and the U.S.
Smith’s areas of expertise include street gangs,
military-trained gang members, gangs in the military, gangs in colleges and
universities, organized crime, international and domestic terrorism and
employment in the criminal justice professions.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State
University in 1999, his master’s degree from Southern Illinois University in
2002 and his doctoral degree from Northcentral University in Prescott Valley,
Arizona, in 2010.
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