Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus atthe University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Schmalleger holds a bach-elor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and both a mas-ter's and a doctorate in sociology from The 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 Soci-ology, 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 cur-rently 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, 2021), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2020), Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 2021), and Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall,2016). 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 award-winning websites (including the former cybrary.info and crimenews.info). He is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Society of Police Futurists International (where he is a founding member). Schmalleger's author page on Amazon. com can be viewed atamazon.com/author/frankschmalleger. Follow him on Twitter @schmalleger.
