Mensah Adinkrah, Ph.D., M.A., M.A., B.A. (Honors), is a broadly trained sociologist and criminal justice scholar with extensive international experiences in Africa, Canada, the United States, and the South Pacific (Fiji Islands). He was a United States Senior Fulbright Scholar to Ghana during the 2003-2004 academic year. Dr. Adinkrah is the author of three (3) scholarly books, one (1) research monograph, and over 70 scholarly articles, most of which have appeared in high-impact academic journals. Dr. Adinkrah is a criminologist, victimologist, justicologist, penologist, suicidologist, and a witchcraft scholar. Dr. Adinkrah is also a thanatologist, currently researching and publishing on Akan (Ghana) mortuary beliefs and death practices. In addition, Dr. Adinkrah has considerable expertise in military sociology, having completed both a Masters thesis and a Doctoral dissertation on military subculture and military political governance in the West African country of Ghana. Dr. Adinkrah is currently a Full Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University. Dr. Adinkrah holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, two Master of Arts degrees in Sociology—one from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and another from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Mensah Adinkrah obtained his doctorate degree in sociology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Adinkrah has held academic positions at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji (1993-1996) and Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota (1997-2003). In 2000, he won the "Excellence in Teaching Award" at the Metropolitan State University." He won a similar award--"Excellence in Teaching Award," at Central Michigan University in 2004. Mensah Adinkrah is also a Certified Gang Specialist, having completed the Basic Gangology Specialist Certification Course.

Professor Mensah Adinkrah is the author of the 2015 book, Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana (Berghahn Books, 2015). He is also the author of Crime, Deviance & Delinquency in Fiji (1995), Violent Encounters: A Study of Homicide Patterns in Fiji (1996), and over 70 scholarly articles some of which have appeared in Homicide Studies, Social Science and Medicine, Violence Against Women, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Crime and Criminal Behavior, Child Abuse & Neglect, Aggressive Behavior, International Annals of Criminology, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Transcultural Psychiatry, Death Studies, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, College Student Journal, and Popular Music and Society.

Professor Adinkrah’s current research interests include persecution of alleged witches in Ghana (West Africa), suicide, homicide, Akan mortuary beliefs and practices, as well as violence against women and children. Born and raised in Ghana, Professor Adinkrah is fluent in reading, writing and speaking Twi (Akan).