In 2006 he was the recipient of the Ruth Shonle Cavan Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.
In 2010, he was promoted to the rank of full professor at Arizona State University,[4] a position he held until February 14, 2014.
[4] Court records indicate that in 2009, while on the faculty of ASU, Pratt became romantically involved with Tasha Kunzi, a graduate student there.
[6] In October 2012, Kunzi sued Pratt, the then-director of ASU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scott Decker, and the Arizona Board of Regents.
[8] He is the Research Director of the Harris County (Texas) Community Supervision & Corrections Department.