Fred Preston
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Dr. Preston is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Sociology. He is the co-founder and Director of Research of The Problem Gambling Center which houses one of the premier treatment programs for problem gamblers in the world. Most of his recent research involves gambling and gambling related issues as well as the broader fields of addiction and deviance. He was co-editor of special editions of the American Behavioral Scientist (2004 & 2005) which focus on unintended consequences (2004) and problem gambling (2005). He has directed three enumerations of the homeless population of Clark County, NV (1999, 2004, 2005) which have served as exemplars nationally and for Census 2000. He consults widely on gambling related issues including work for the F.B.I., the provinces of Alberta and Ontario, most national gaming corporations, and numerous state legislative bodies including Nevada, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Hawaii and he has served as an expert witness in many gambling related trials around the country. He is currently completing a monograph on families of problem gamblers. His text is now in its eighth edition having been published by St. Martin’s (1977 and 1982), Allyn and Bacon (1989), Simon and Schuster (1997), and Pearson (1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005). He was named Outstanding Faculty Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts in 1994. From 1997 to 2000, Preston was coach and advisor for the UNLV Rodeo Team and he remains very proud of the women’s team which won the national championship in 1999. Preston chaired UNLV’s Department of Sociology for over ten years during which time he designed the Ph.D. program and brought it to fruition in 1988. He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and the Ohio State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State where he was named Outstanding Graduate Student. Joined faculty in 1973. |
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