Dr. Charles Patrick Ewing is a forensic psychologist, attorney and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo Law School.[1] Ewing received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his law degree with honors from Harvard University.[2] Since joining the law faculty in 1983, Ewing has taught criminal law, evidence, torts, juvenile law, forensic science, psychology and law, and other courses.[3]
Ewing is the author or co-author of nine books: Trials of a Forensic Psychologist; Insanity: Murder, Madness and the Law; Minds on Trial; Fatal Families: The Dynamics of Intrafamilial Homicide; Kids Who Kill; When Children Kill: The Dynamics of Juvenile Homicide; Battered Women Who Kill; Crisis Intervention as Psychotherapy; and Psychology, Psychiatry and the Law: A Clinical and Forensic Handbook. He is also author or co-author of approximately seventy other publications...most of which deal with issues related to violent behavior, dangerousness, expert testimony and other issues in forensic psychology.[4]
Ewing is Editor of the journal, Behavioral Sciences and the Law as well as on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Forensic Psychology (ABFP) and American Board of Professional Psychology. In 2008, he began a six year term as an elected member of the Board of Directors of ABFP.[5]
Ewing has testified as an expert witness in over 600 trials in the United States and Canada.[6]
In 1993, Ewing received the Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology Award, an award presented annually by the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.[7] In 2001, he received the New York State Bar Association's award for outstanding contribution in the field of criminal law education.[8] In 2003, he was named SUNY Distinguished Service Professor by the Trustees of the State University of New York.[9]