Frank
Schmalleger, Ph.D.
Frank Schmalleger,
Ph.D., is
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at
the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
He
holds degrees from the University of
Notre Dame
and The Ohio State University, having
earned both
a master's (1970) and a doctorate in sociology (1974) from The Ohio
State
University with a special emphasis in criminology. From 1976 to 1994,
he taught
criminology and criminal justice courses at the University of North
Carolina at
Pembroke. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university's
Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. The
university
named him Distinguished Professor in 1991.
Schmalleger
is the author or co-author of numerous articles and more than 30 books,
including the widely used Criminal
Justice Today (Prentice Hall 2011); Criminal
Justice: A Brief Introduction
(Prentice Hall, 2010), Criminology
Today
(Prentice Hall, 2009), Criminology:
A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2011); Corrections
in the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill 2011); Crimes
of the Internet (Prentice Hall, 2009); Policing
Today (Prentice Hall, 2011); Courts
and Criminal Justice in America (Prentice Hall, 2011); Juvenile
Delinquency (Prentice Hall, 2011); and Criminal Law
Today
(Prentice Hall, 2011).
Frank
Schmalleger has
taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research,
helping to build the world's first electronic classrooms. As an adjunct
professor with Webster University
in St.
Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university's graduate
program
in security administration and loss prevention. He taught courses in
that
curriculum for more than a decade.
Schmalleger
is also active in the area of curriculum development and has consulted
with
more than a dozen colleges and universities in the development of
criminal
justice and criminal justice-related degree programs
-- and is a strong
advocate of the Academy
of
Criminal Justice Science's
program certification standards.
An
avid Web user and website builder, Schmalleger is the creator of a
number of
award-winning websites, including the popular Criminal
Justice Cybrary (now owned by Prentice Hall Publishing Co.) and the
(now
defunct) Distance Learning Consortium.
Schmalleger
is founding editor of the journal Criminal
Justice Studies
(formerly The Justice Professional). He has served as
editor for the Prentice Hall series Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century and as imprint
adviser for Greenwood Publishing Group's criminal justice reference
series.
Schmalleger's
philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these
words:
"In
order to communicate knowledge we must first catch, then hold, a
person's
interest
-- be it student, colleague, or policymaker. Our writing, our
speaking, and our teaching must be relevant to the problems facing
people
today, and they must in some way help solve those problems." Visit the author's website on
Amazon.com.
