Curtis R. Blakely
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, University of South Alabama. Ph.D., University of Southern Illinois. Author of “Countering the Contagion of Inmate Nonamenability: Prison Specialization and Recidivism,” Professional Issues in Criminal Justice (vol. 3, no. 1, 2008).
Matthew DeMichele
Doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, and Research Associate at the American Probation and Parole Association. M.S., A.B.D., University of Kentucky. Co-author of “Probation and Parole Officers Speak Out: Caseload and Workload Allocation,” Federal Probation (December 2007).
Joe Gergits
Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Previously, trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. J.D., University of Illinois College of Law. Author of “Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure,” 18 S. Ill. U.L.J., 747 (1994).
Elaine Gunnison
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Seattle University. Ph.D., University of Cincinnnati. Co-author of “Desistance from Serious and Not So Serious Crime: A Comparison of Psychosocial Risk Factors,” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Jouranl of Crime, Law, and Society (Vol. 20, no. 3, 2007).
Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, Seattle University. Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University. Author of Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies, and Criminal Justice (Sage Publications, 2008).
Martha Henderson
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, The Citadel. Previously, Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections, Southern Illinois University. Ph.D.,, University of Cincinnati. Author of “Prisoner Reentry: Moving Beyond the Identification of Inmate Needs Upon Release,” in Roslyn Muraskin and Albert Roberts (eds.) Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-first Century (5th ed.), Prentice Hall, 2008.
Amanda Mathias Humphrey
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Mount Mercy College. Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Omaha. Author of “Doing Time Together: Correctional Officer Health,” in Rick Ruddell and Mark Tomita (eds.) Issues in Correctional Health, 2008.
Charles Lindner
Professor Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Previously, Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ph.D., Brooklyn Law School. Author of “Thacher, Augustus, and Hill—The Path to Statutory Probation in the United States and England,” Federal Probation (December 2007).
Arthur J. Lurigio
Loyola University Chicago.
M. Joan McDermott
Associate Professor and Director, Women’s Studies, SIUC. Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
Brian K. Payne
Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Author of Crime and Elder Abuse (2nd edition, 2005).
Melinda Tanner
Program Assistant, Duke Talent Identification Program, Duke University. Previously, Youth Advocacy Involvement Office Intern, University of North Carolina. B.A. in Sociology and Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dillon Wyatt
Youth Advocacy Involvement Office Intern. B.A., Elon College.
Douglas Yearwood
Director, North Carolina Criminal Justice Analysis Center. Previously, Social Research Associate, North Carolina Sheriffs’ Training and Standards Division. M.S., North Carolina Central University. Co-author of “Juvenile Structured Day Programs for Suspended and Expelled Youth: An Evaluation of Process and Impact,” Preventing School Failure, 51(4).
BOOK REVIEWERS
Dan Beto
Editor, Executive Exchange.
Donald G. Evans
President of the Canadian Training Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; former President of the American Probation and Parole Association and the International Community Corrections Association.
Kenneth Hardin
Student in Political Science and Criminal Justice, University of South Alabama.