William Pridemore

American criminologist, chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia and affiliate faculty at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. His research examines the connections between social structure, alcohol consumption, and violence, including how alcohol outlet density relates to assault rates and how neighborhood social cohesion can mitigate violence. He received the Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology in 2015. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/