Faculty & Staff

Dr. David Marble
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Ph.D., M.S., University of Texas at Dallas
M.P.A, University of Utah
B.A, Political Science | Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Office: Wilson Hall 204E
Office Phone:  (816) 271-5960
Email:  dmarble@missouriwestern.edu
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Marble use the following link: https://dmarble.youcanbook.me/

Curriculum Vitae

Office Hours
I will conduct office hours through Zoom by appointment only each weekday during normal business hours.

Courses
CRJ 100
CRJ 325

David Marble started working in the Criminal Justice field in December 1993 when he accepted a position as a graduate intern at the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole.  He was pursuing a Masters Degree at the University of Utah and the internship was a requirement for graduation.  He completed his internship in September 1994 and then immediately entered the Corrections Academy for certified training needed for his position as a Research Analyst for the Utah Department of Corrections.  In this position he helped to develop and then run a moral literacy rehabilitation program for prison inmates.  In 1997, he accepted a position as a Correctional Habilitative Specialist at the Utah State Prison where he had a caseload of 144 medium security inmates.  He prepared inmate institutional progress reports for inmates appearing before the Board of Pardons, conducted inmate security reassessments, and oversaw inmate life skills training.  In 1995, while working at the prison, David completed his Masters of Public Administration Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and began work as an Adjunct Criminal Justice Professor for Salt Lake Community College.  In August 1999, he accepted a full-time position as a Criminal Justice Professor at Collin College in Plano, Texas.  During his 14 years at Collin College he helped develop the Criminal Justice degree program and served as the Departmental Chair of Criminal Justice and Political Science between 2003 and 2013.  Beginning in 2007 he started working towards MS and Ph.D. degrees in Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).  He completed a doctoral dissertation on the impact of discretionary parole release on offender recidivism and graduated with a Ph.D. in April 2012.  In August 2013, he moved his family to Northern Missouri and began employment as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Missouri Western State University.  In 2019 he was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Criminal Justice.  He and his wife, Kristen, have been married since 1990 and are the parents of four children and have two beautiful granddaughters.