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, 2012), Criminology
Today
(Prentice Hall, 2009), Criminology:
A
Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2011); Corrections
in
the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill 2011, with John
Smykla); Crimes
of
the Internet (Prentice Hall, 2009, with Michael
Pittaro); Policing
Today (Prentice Hall, 2011, with John Worrall); Courts
and
Criminal Justice in America (Prentice Hall, 2011,
with Larry Siegel and John Worrall); Criminal Law and Procedure for
Legal Professionals (Prentice Hall, 2011, with
John Feldmeier); Juvenile
Delinquency (Prentice Hall, 2011, with Clemmens
Bartollas); Deviant Behavior (Jones and
Bartlett, 2012, with John A. Humphrey); and Criminal
Law Today
(Prentice Hall, 2011, with Daniel Hall).</para>
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.