Christopher J. Schneider

Christopher J. Schneider is professor of sociology at Brandon University. Schneider’s research and publications have focused largely on information technologies and related changes to police work. He has written or collaborated on six books including, Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media (Lexington Books, 2016) and has published dozens of academic journal articles, book chapters, and essays. Schneider has received award recognition for his research, teaching, and service contributions. In 2020, he received an Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Contribution Award for his 2017 Couch-Stone Symposium keynote address published in 2019 in Studies in Symbolic Interaction. A frequent contributor to media, Schneider’s work has appeared in hundreds of news segments and reports, including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, NBC News, and Chicago’s WGN-TV. Schneider was Endowed Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University in spring 2019 and the Public Visiting Scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University in fall 2016.