Kenneth Lang

Kenneth R. Lang, Ph.D. is a retired detective and currently serves as a criminal justice professor, accomplished author, and consultant. During his 25-year law enforcement career, he served 2-years with the Havre de Grace Police Department before becoming employed with the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure with BCoPD, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, including rapes, robberies, and murders. During his law enforcement career, Dr. Lang completed his education earning a bachelor and master's degree from Columbia Southern University with honors in Criminal Justice Administration and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2019 through Walden University. Dr. Lang is also an accomplished author having releases his Homicide Series trilogy from 2011-2012. His books, Walking Among the Dead, Standing In Death's Shadow, and Death Comes Uninvited, attained recognition from The Author's Show in 2011 who awarded Lang with 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading. In 2013, the Distance Education Training Commission (DETC) recognized Lang's writing contributions to criminal justice profession and awarded him with the 2013 DETC Famous Alumni Award. Since his retirement from law enforcement in 2014, Dr. Lang served as an assistant professor at the University of Valley Forge where he developed and implemented the criminal justice program. Dr. Lang is now an assistant professor at Glenville State College in Glenville, WV and a legal consultant for the Law & Crime Trial Network.