William Pridemore

William Alex Pridemore (born October 14, 1969) is an American criminologist who is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Education Pridemore received his B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University in criminal justice, after which he received his Ph.D. from the University at Albany in 2000. which he has also reported can be reduced by higher degrees of social cohesion in neighborhoods. He has also studied anti-abortion violence and the relationship between incarceration and mortality.