Retirements R.L. McNeely — Professor emeritus, social work, retired from HBSSW in 2012.
Much of McNeely’s work focuses on work satisfaction in human service organizations, work/family issues, domestic violence and racial justice. He co-edited Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice and Aging in Minority Groups, and wrote more than 80 articles, research monographs, and book reviews in social science and education journals. He co-authored the Milwaukee Urban League’s 1987 report Milwaukee Today: A Racial Gap Study, which received international attention, and co-authored the Milwaukee NAACP’s 2011 monograph Milwaukee Today: An Occasional Report. Both reports detail, demographically, the plight of Milwaukee’s minority citizenry. McNeely served as an American Council of Education fellow and is a research fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. His work in the field of domestic violence inspired the NBC documentary Of Macho and Men. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on domestic violence, served the U.S. Army as a domestic violence consultant, and appeared on CBS Morning News. Currently, McNeely—a practicing attorney at Midwest Legal Services—chairs a prison advisory board which seeks to assist the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in establishing strategies that enhance prospects for successful community reintegration by ex-offenders. Three of his most recent publications include “Notes on Newspaper Accounts of Male Elder Abuse” (Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect), “Neighborhood Convenience Stores and Drug Paraphernalia: One Community’s Response” (Strategies of Community Intervention), and “Reflections on Racial Differences in Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence,” (Social Justice in Context). McNeely is a member of the Milwaukee NAACP’s Executive Committee and a member of the Washington County Bar Association. He is listed in Who’s Who in Social Sciences Higher Education, Who’s Who in the Human Services, and Who’s Who in Aging. 63