Henry F. Fradella

Henry F. Fradella, known as Hank, is an American lawyer and criminologist who is a professor and the director of the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics at Arizona State University, with further appointments in its School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and as an affiliate professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He studied psychology at Clark University, forensic science and law at George Washington University, and earned a doctorate in justice studies at Arizona State in 1997. Before academia he worked as an autopsy technician, a lawyer and a judicial law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, then taught for ten years at The College of New Jersey and chaired the criminal justice department at California State University, Long Beach, before joining Arizona State in 2014. His research examines the historical development of procedural, substantive and evidentiary criminal law and the effects of law on human behavior. He has authored or edited 15 books and over 135 articles, edits the Criminal Law Bulletin, and received the Joseph D. Lohman award in 2014.