About the Author

John A. Humphrey, Ph.D., is a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is also the co-director of the Consortium on Justice and Society in the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. He holds a degree from Saint Anselm College, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of New Hampshire where he completed a post-doctorate in family violence (with Murray A. Straus) in the Family Research Laboratory. John Humphrey’s research focuses on interpersonal violence, including physical and sexual assault, the link between homicide and suicide, wrongful conviction, and alternatives to incarceration. His work, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Justice, has been published by journals in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, criminal justice, and medicine. His books include: A Panorama of Suicide, The Administration of Justice, Deviant Behavior: Its Patterns, Sources, and Control, and Wrongly Convicted: When Justice Fails. 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 and a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University, with a special emphasis in criminology. Frank Schmalleger is the author or co-author of numerous articles and more than 30 books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today; Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction; Criminology Today; Criminology: A Brief Introduction; Corrections in the 21st Century; Crimes of the Internet; Policing Today; Courts and Criminal Justice in America; Juvenile Delinquency; and Criminal Law Today. He 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.