Frank Schmalleger, PhD,
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus
at the University of North
Carolina at Pembroke. He also
serves as director of the Justice
Research Association, a private
consulting firm and think tank,
based in Palm Beach, Florida, focusing on issues of crime
and justice.
Dr. Schmalleger holds a bachelor’s degree from the University
of Notre Dame and both a master’s and a doctorate
in sociology from Ohio State University with a special
emphasis in criminology. From 1976 to 1994, he taught
criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina
at Pembroke, serving for many years as a tenured full
professor. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the
Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
As an adjunct professor with Webster University in
St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Schmalleger helped develop a graduate
program in security management and loss prevention
that is currently offered on U.S. military bases around the
world. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than
a decade, focusing primarily on computer and information
security. Dr. Schmalleger also has taught in the New School
for Social Research online graduate program, helping build
the world’s first electronic classrooms for criminal justice
distance learning.
Dr. Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and
many books, including Criminal Justice Today (Prentice
Hall, 2011), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Prentice
Hall, 2010), Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 2009), and
Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall, 2011). He is founding
editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies (formerly The
Justice Professional ) and has served as imprint advisor for
Greenwood Publishing Group’s criminal justice reference
series.
Dr. Schmalleger is also the creator of a number of awardwinning
Web sites (including cybrary.info and crimenews
.info) and founder and codirector of the Criminal Justice
Distance Learning Consortium, a project of the Justice
Research Association.
John Ortiz Smykla, PhD,
is professor and chair of the
Department of Criminal Justice
and Legal Studies at the University
of West Florida. Previously,
he was professor of criminal justice
at the University of Alabama,
where he served as department chair for 10 years, and at the
University of South Alabama, where he served as department
chair for 3 years.
Dr. Smykla teaches courses in corrections and research
methods. He teaches online, face-to-face, and using a blended
format at the University of West Florida. He has taught twoway
interactive corrections courses across several campuses
of the University of Alabama system and has supervised
more than 50 master’s and doctoral students. Dr. Smykla
earned the interdisciplinary social science PhD in criminal
justice, sociology, and anthropology from Michigan State
University. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology
from California State University at Northridge.
Dr. Smykla has authored or edited four corrections
books. His coauthored data set Executions in the United
States, 1608–2003: The Espy File is one of the most frequently
requested criminal justice data files from the University
of Michigan’s Inter-University Consortium for Political
and Social Research.
Dr. Smykla has published more than 40 research articles
on corrections issues, including “The Human Impact
of Capital Punishment,” “Effects of a Prison Facility on
the Regional Economy,” “Jail Type and Inmate Behavior,”
“Juvenile Drug Courts,” and, most recently, “Correctional
Privatization and the Myth of Inherent Efficiency.”
Dr. Smykla has delivered more than 50 conference papers
in the United States and abroad. In 1986, he was a Senior
Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and Uruguay.
Dr. Smykla is a member of the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences and the Southern Criminal Justice Association.
In 1996, the Southern Criminal Justice Association
named him Educator of the Year. In 1997, he served as
program chair for the annual meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2000, he served as president
of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Dr. Smykla is
a member of the Mobile County Metro Jail Planning Committee
and a member of Friends of the Holman Prison Faith-
Based Restorative Justice Honor Dorm, Atmore, Alabama.
