Douglas Orr, Ph.D.

Douglas A. Orr is a 30-year law enforcement veteran who has served as a commissioned law enforcement officer in South Carolina, Idaho, and Washington. He is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the years, Dr. Orr has assumed various roles such as Collision Reconstructionist, Street Crimes, Truancy, Sexual Assault and Polygraph. He retired in 2016 as a Detective in the Major Crimes Unit of the Spokane Police Department in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Orr now serves as the Department Head of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of North Georgia.

Dr. Orr also holds membership in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), the American Society of Criminologists (ASC), and the Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG). He is CompTIA Security+ certified as well as an EnCE computer forensic examiner and Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME). He is proficient with SPSS.

• Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Washington State University, 2005
• M.S., Cybersecurity, Saint Leo University , 2017
• MBA, Human Resources, Saint Leo University, 2011
• M.A., Organizational Leadership, Gonzaga University, 2002

• Orr, Douglas A. (2023) Cryptocurrency: Its Impact and Forensic Worth. In: Max M. Houck (ed.) Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Third Edition, vol. 1, pp. 709–716. Oxford: Elsevier.
• Collins, C.J., Orr, D.A. and Zschau, T. (2021). Hate Crime in the News: The Media’s Role in Agenda Setting. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology. 10, (Apr. 2021), 822–831. DOI:https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2021.10.97
• Orr, D. and Matthew Clark (2019). Addressing Local Police Violence: Two Notable Federal Remedies to a National Issue. In A. Esmail & L. Eargle (Ed.), On These Mean Streets…People Are Dying: Police and Citizen Brutality in America, (pp. 120-137). Lake Charles, LA: Green Legacy Publishing Company LLC.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Rachel Gover. (2019). The Internet of Things: An Analysis of Insecurity. The Journal of Saint Leo University’s College of Education and Social Services, Vol. I (2).
• Orr, Douglas A. and Buddy Tidwell. (2019). Critical Thinking and the Digital Forensics Examiner. Journal of Forensic Sciences and Digital Investigation, 2019(2): 69-77.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Drew M. Lancaster. (2018). Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain: A Discussion of Forensic Needs. International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, 7(4): 420-435.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Alvi Castro. (2018). Whatsapp Messenger on the Android Platform: A Forensic Examination of a Physical Device. Forensic Sciences: Methods and Techniques, 2018 (1), pp. 04-19.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Peter White. (2018). Current State of Forensic Acquisition for IaaS Cloud Services. Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation, Vol. 10, Issue 1.
• Reid, Andrew L. and Douglas Orr. (2018). Bitcoin Investigations: Evolving Methodologies and Case Studies. Journal of Forensic Research, Vol. 9, Issue 3.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Laura Sanchez. (2017, Forthcoming). Alexa, Did You Get That? Determining the Evidentiary Value of Amazon Echo® and Alexa related data. Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response, *Revise and Resubmit currently underway.
• Orr, Douglas A. and Michael Reiter. (2017, October). Cisco’s Jabber: A Closer Look with a Python Script. International Journal of Forensic Computer Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 22-30.
• Paterline, Brent A. and Douglas Orr. (2016, December). Adaption to Prison and Inmate Self-Concept. Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Vol. 4. No. 2, pp. 70-79.
• Moran, John and Douglas A. Orr. (2012, April 26). The Automatic Crash Recovery: Internet Explorer's black box. Journal of Digital Forensics, Security & Law, Vol. 7. No. 3.