Marvin Zalman is Professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University. He has written on criminal procedure (e.g., articles on Miranda rights, Fourth Amendment, and venue), criminal justice policy; wrongful conviction; criminal justice and civil liberties; and judicial sentencing. Recent publications include "Wrongful Conviction" in Oxford Bibliographies Online, (Fall 2012); "Qualitatively Estimating the Incidence of Wrongful Convictions" (Criminal Law Bulletin, 2012); "An Integrated Justice Model of Wrongful Convictions" (Albany Law Review, 2011); "Measuring Wrongful Convictions" (Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer, 2014); and "Edwin Borchard and the Limits of Innocence Reform" (in Huff & Killias, eds., Wrongful Convictions & Miscarriages of Justice, Routledge, 2014). With Julia Carrano he has co-edited Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform: Making Justice (Routledge, 2104).
Jeffery T. Walker is a professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, where he has worked since 1990. Dr. Walker has written 9 books and over 70 journal articles and book chapters. He has obtained over $9 million in grants from the Department of Justice, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and others. His areas of interest are social and environmental factors of crime and the study of non-linear dynamics as they relate to crime. He is a past President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Editorial experience includes service as Editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Journal of Critical Criminology. Previous publications include articles in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and the books Leading Cases in Law Enforcement (8th Edition) and Statistics in Criminal Justice and Criminology: Analysis and Interpretation (4th Edition).
Rick Dierenfeldt received his BS (2011) in Criminal Justice from Missouri Western State University and a MS (2013) in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. He also served as a police officer for ten years prior to beginning his doctoral studies at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. His research interests include policing, juvenile justice, criminological theory, and policy evaluation.
Brian L. Withrow is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. Prior to his scholarly career Brian was a commissioned officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Dr. Withrow is often asked to consult with policing agencies in the area of racial profiling. His research agenda is primarily focused on decision making within the criminal justice process.
Jeff D. Dailey is a professor of Intelligence and Border Security at Angelo State University. Prior to his academic career he performed classified computer-aided signal analysis (SIGINT) with active duty Army and Air Force intelligence units in several locations, in both the U.S. (NSA) and in Europe. He has taught Criminal Justice at several schools and co-authored books on Probation, Border Security, and Sexual Abuse of Inmates.
Michael Cavanaugh has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. Cavanaugh's research interests include public policy questions, substance abuse issues, and a wide range of legal issues. He has published articles in a few notable journals including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Barbara Belbot has a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. She served as a Monitor in the Texas prison reform lawsuit, Ruiz v. Estelle. Dr. Belbot publishes in the area of prisoners' rights and constitutional law. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in these areas. She co-authored a book with Dr. Craig Hemmens, Legal Rights of the Convicted (2010).
Jared Ellison is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His research interests include court processing, the correctional system, inmate behavior, and community re-entry.
Emily Wright is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. Her research involves neighborhoods, intimate partner violence and victimization (IPV), exposure to violence, and female offenders. Her work has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Social Problems, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Child Abuse & Neglect.
Valerie Bell received her Ph.D in criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati and is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
Len Decker received Ph.D in sociology at South Dakota State University and is currently a professor of criminal justice at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
Benjamin Steiner is an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests focus on issues related to juvenile justice, institutional, and community corrections. He has published over 50 journal articles and book entries related to these topics. He is the recipient of both the Distinguished New Scholar Award from the Division on Corrections and Sentencing of the American Society of Criminology and the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Juvenile Justice Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Claudia San Miguel is Chair of the Department of Public Affairs and Social Research and is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. She is the co-author of Everyday Ethics of the Criminal Justice Professional. She has also published in the area of dating violence, domestic violence, and various policing issues. Recent publications appear in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Journal of Pediatrics, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, and Criminal Justice Review. Dr. San Miguel has been working on research involving the trafficking of women and children and has recently traveled to England, Poland, Sweden, Austria, and Spain to help form collaborative relationships with their anti-trafficking task force. She has also taught courses for the Department of State in Roswell, New Mexico on global human trafficking at the International Law Enforcement Academy.
Taylor Brickley is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina. He is also an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Social Sciences Department at Mars Hill University. Before attending graduate school, Taylor was a probation officer in Texas and Georgia. His current research examines the relationship between citizens and police in various contexts through the critical perspective.
Katherine Bennett earned her PhD in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. She is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Social, and Political Science at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. Her research experiences include measuring faculty attitudes toward guns on campus, citizen satisfaction survey research, job satisfaction among correctional executives, reintegrative shaming theory, and labeling and symbolic interactionism. Research in legal areas, in addition to juvenile life without parole/death penalty issues, include constitutional challenges related to juvenile curfews, cross gender searches of female inmates, and closed circuit testimony of child victims and witnesses.
Darrell Ross is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Valdosta State University and is the Director for the Center for Applied Social Sciences. He received his Ph. D. from Michigan State University in 1992. Dr. Ross has been in higher education since 1985 and worked for the MI Department of Corrections from 1973 to 1985. He has taught in police and corrections training academies and has developed 23 training programs. He has been certified to train police officers in 10 states. He has made over 600 national and international conference and training presentations. In 2013 Dr. Ross was inducted into Michigan State University's, School of Criminal Justice Wall of Fame, as a Distinguished Alumni. Dr. Ross has published over 80 articles, 4 books, and 5 book chapters. He has been a consultant to: National Institute of Justice; the Meggitt Defense Training Systems; Government Risk Managers in 2 states; IL, NE and MI State Police; NC, IL, MI, FL, Police Officers Training Standards Commissions; NC Highway Patrol; NC Justice Academy; Attorney's General offices in 6 states; NC and KS Bureau of Investigation; U.S. Attorney's Office in FL; Hong Kong Correctional Services, Canada and Australia's Sudden Death Task Force; and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has provided expert witness testimony in 27 states since 1988.
Shannon Womer Phaneuf is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include school violence, crime prevention, public policy, and corrections. Her book, entitled Security in Schools: Its Effect on Students, examines the effect of school security measures on student fear and school climate.
Robert P. Stallings is a doctoral candidate of criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His experience includes working as a graduate student coordinator for the RAND Corporation evaluations of Drug Market Interventions (DMI). Additionally, he has worked as a lead researcher examining the incidence of mental illness in female prisoners at a jail in Southwest Virginia. Currently, he is a graduate assistant at IUP.
Jonathon A. Cooper is an assistant professor of criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Primarily a policing scholar, his focus is on policing organizational behavior and theory. A member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, he has for several years taught policing courses at the university level and worked with several law enforcement agencies and community groups in problem oriented and total quality management projects.
Brian Iannacchione is an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado and holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interest is the examination of racial and ethnic disparities on sentencing decisions using multi-method analyses. He is also involved in research that explores organizational culture and ethics in correctional facilities.
Claire Angelique Nolasco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology of Texas A&M-San Antonio. She obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University, her Masters in International and Economic Business Law from Kyushu University in Japan, and her Bachelors degree in Law from the University of the Philippines. She is authorized to practice law in both the State of California and the Philippines where she has extensive corporate and litigation experience, having worked first in private practice. She is currently a member of several honor societies including the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society. Her research interests include criminal law, court systems, organized crime, white collar crime, and corporate crime. She has published in several peer reviewed criminal justice journals, including Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and American Journal of Criminal Law. She is currently the Deputy Chair (2014) and incoming Chair (2015) of the Assessment Committee of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, a national organization of legal and criminology researchers and practitioners in the United States.
Aneta Spai? obtained her law degree from the the University of Montenegro, Law Faculty in Podgorica, graduating with top honors. After her bachelor's degree in law, she pursued her Masters in Law at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) as a scholar of the Japanese Government. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Law Faculty of University of Montenegro in Podgorica. She was awarded by the city of Podgorica and the Charter of the University of Montenegro as best student of the University. In 2005, she became a laureate of the Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art. In 2009, she was conferred the academic title of assistant professor at the University of Montenegro. In 2010 she was appointed for the national correspondent by Government of Montenegro in UNCITRAL. She has published a number of articles in the scientific, professional international and national journals.
Mai E. Naito is a Ph.D. Candidate from Sam Houston State University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Sociology from the University of West Florida and Master of Arts degree in Criminology from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. As a Doctoral Research Assistant, Mai studies legal issues in criminal justice, specifically eyewitness misidentification and wrongful convictions. Other research interests include voir dire, jury selection, and race/ethnicity and crime. Her publications appear in The Criminal Law Bulletin, Silliman Law Journal, and The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Michael Vaughn is a Professor and Director of the institute for Legal Studies at Sam Houston State University, where he has taught since 2006. Dr. Vaughn's research interests are primarily related to legal issues in criminal justice, specializing in the area of legal liabilities of criminal justice personnel. Dr. Vaughn has served as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education (1993-1996), Editor of Police Forum (1997-2001), Editor of the Criminal Justice Review (2001-2005), and Editor of the International Criminal Justice Review (2001-2005). He is extensively published in criminal justice books, journals and law reviews. In 2005, he was ranked second nationally among "Academic Stars" who graduated from American Criminal Justice and Criminology Ph.D. programs in an article published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education and in 2002 he ranked second nationally in scholarly productivity based on publications in criminal justice and criminology journals in a Journal of Criminal Justice article. While a professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Georgia State University, he received the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award for scholarship, teaching and service as well as the International Excellence Award for being editor of International Criminal Justice Review.
Frances P. Bernat is Professor and Associate Dean at Texas A&M International University. In 2012, she was awarded both TAMIU Instructional Technology Excellence Award and the Coramae Richey Mann Leadership Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Bernat's areas of recent publications are on cybercrime, human sex trafficking, women and the law and, youth resilience and deviance. Professor Bernat has been principal investigator on numerous research projects focusing on community problems and public policy. Among her recent publications are a book on Human Sex Trafficking (2011) and Criminal Procedure Law (2013). She is currently the editor of Women & Criminal Justice.
Simon Zschirnt is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M International University. He received his J.D. from Tulane University and his Ph.D. from Washington State University. His teaching and research areas include American politics and constitutional law. His work has appeared in Political Behavior and in several edited volumes.
Nicholas Godlove is an attorney and faculty associate at Arizona State University in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He graduated from the University of California at Davis Law School and thereafter was a clerk for the Federal District Court. He has published articles and performs research on criminal law, cybercrime and digital fraud.
Rodney L. Engen is currently Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where he teaches courses in criminology and criminal justice policies related to mass incarceration. He began studying sentencing policy, and the exercise of prosecutorial and judicial discretion in the sentencing process, as a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle. He subsequently held positions as a Research Investigator with the Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission and as Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. and has served as a research consultant with the North Carolina Sentencing Policy and Advisory Commission. Dr. Engen's research appears in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, and Social Problems.
Ronald Wright is the Needham Y. Gulley Professor of Criminal Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. He teaches and writes about the institutions of criminal justice, with particular emphasis on sentencing commissions, prosecutor services, and public defense services. He is the co-author of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest, Wright was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting antitrust and other white-collar criminal cases.
Barbara Sims, Ph.D., is Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice at Mars Hill University. She received her doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University in 1997. Dr. Sims retired from The Pennsylvania State University as Professor Emeritus in 2012 before joining the faculty at Mars Hill University. Her research interests are in the areas of public opinion and criminal justice, institutional- and community-based corrections, domestic violence, policing, juvenile justice, criminology, and criminal justice education. Dr. Sims has published in such journals as Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Police Quarterly. Her current research is in the area of domestic violence in India and restorative justice.
Megan Reynolds is a graduate of the Criminal Justice M.A. Program at Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg and is now a doctoral student in the Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice at Temple University.
Leah Taylor is an undergraduate senior at Mars Hill University studying sociology and psychology. She plans to pursue a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Forensic Psychology. Her research interests include psychopathology in juvenile delinquents and the impacts of childhood trauma. In 2012 she was selected for a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at UAB.
Stacy C. Moak is the graduate coordinator and professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of New Orleans and studies issues of crime in the environment. Other areas of interest include juvenile justice and policy, and criminal law and procedure. Her recent work appears in, The Journal of Juvenile Justice, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Race and Justice, and the book Criminal Justice Procedure (8th edition).
Rocio Perez is a PhD student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her BA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2011, and has been a graduate assistant in the department of criminal justice and criminology for the past two years. Her research interest areas include studies of ethnic minorities, particularly Hispanic immigrants.
David C. Brody is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. He received a JD from the University of Arizona College of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of casebooks on criminal law and criminal procedure, and several dozen other scholarly articles and books.
Chyla Aguiar is a doctoral student in Criminal Justice at Washington State University. She holds a M.A. in Criminal Justice from Washington State University, and works as research associate for the Washington State Institute for Criminal Justice Research. Her research interests include intergenerational patterns of incarceration, reentry and reintegration initiatives, and evaluation research.
Sue Carter Collins is an Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has been employed since 2001. She holds three academic degrees from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida: a B.S. in Criminology and Corrections (1973), a Juris Doctorate with an emphasis on criminal law (1983), and a PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2000). She also holds a M.S. in Criminal Justice Administration from Rollins College (1978). While attending the FSU College of Law she served as a member of the esteemed FSU Law Review. During her tenure as a doctoral student she received the prestigious McKnight Fellowship. Dr. Collins is a qualitative socio-legal researcher with an expansive interest in contemporary legal issues in policing including, but not limited to, sexual harassment, race and gender, police accountability and discipline, and the USA Patriot Act. A native Floridian, Dr. Collins has more than 30 years of experience as a criminal justice practitioner. She began her career as a correctional officer in 1973 and later served as a deputy sheriff, felony investigator, assistant public defender, assistant prosecutor, and Senior Legal Advisor for the City of Tallahassee, Florida, Police Department. Since 1986, she has provided consulting services to law enforcement agencies and trained countless police managers in the areas of conflict management and workplace diversity, and conducting sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racial profiling investigations.
