Ronald W. Snow, Emeritus
Research Fellow & Research Professor, SSRC; Adjunct Professor of Sociology, MSU
Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana
Email: Ron.Snow@ssrc.msstate.edu
Phone: (662) 325-7961
Dr. Snow has served as coordinator of the Research and Program Development Unit of the Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program (MASEP), SSRC since 1983. Before coming to Mississippi, he held academic positions at Georgia Southern College and Michigan State University. He has directed several projects related to drinking and driving, including the Mississippi Project, A Problem Oriented Approach to Curriculum and Assessment in First Offender DUI Education/ Rehabilitation Programs; DUI System Analysis Project: Arrests, Adjudication, Referral, and Public Awareness; the MASEP Judicial Education and Public Awareness Project: Court Referral Procedures, Judicial Workshops, and Traffic Safety Poll; and Tracking the Mississippi DUI Offender: Improving the Utility of Existing Mississippi Data Bases for Studying DUI Recidivism. Recent research has focused on predicting recidivism among convicted drinking drivers and on the attitudes and opinions of Americans with respect to highway safety issues. He is presently principal investigator of a project entitled “Improving the Effectiveness of Screening Procedures Used to Identify High Risk DUI Offenders in Mississippi.” Dr. Snow has served on several committees of professional organizations, including the steering committee of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. His research has been published in Mississippi Geographer, Southeastern Geographer, Perspectives on the American South, Addiction, Deviant Behavior, Sociology and Social Research, International Journal of the Addictions, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, British Journal of Addiction and Addictive Behaviors.
March 6, 2011

