Allen Liska

Allen Liska (1940 to 1998) was an American sociologist and criminologist who was a full professor at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1982 until his death, having joined its faculty in 1979. He chaired the university's sociology department from 1985 to 1988 and supervised more Ph.D. students than any other faculty member in that department. He chaired the American Sociological Association's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in November 1998, and in 1999 was one of four Albany faculty members to receive the university's Excellence in Research Award. In 1984 he evaluated the Fishbein and Ajzen model of attitudes and behaviour, arguing that it was not complex enough to organize much contemporary research, and he wrote on social control and crime.