Corrections From Research to Policy to Practice by Stohr-Test Bank

Mary K. Stohr is a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. She earned a PhD (1990) in political science from Washington State University, focusing on criminal justice and public administration. In the past, before pursuing her advanced degrees, she served as a correctional officer followed by working as a counselor in an adult male penitentiary in Washington State. Professor Stohr has authored over 100 scholarly publications covering correctional organizations and operation, correctional personnel, inmate needs and evaluation, program assessment, gender, policing, victimization, and drug policy outcomes. Collaborative works with other authors include The American Prison (with Cullen and Jonson); Corrections: The Essentials (with Walsh); Correctional Assessment, Casework and Counseling (with Walsh); Corrections: A Text Reader (with Walsh and Hemmens); Criminal Justice Administration: Theory and Practice in Justice-Centered Organizations (with Collins); and The Prison Experience (with Hemmens). She served as the executive director of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) for five years, received the Fellows Award from ACJS in 2018, garnered the Founders Award in 2009, and co-founded the Corrections and Minorities and Women Sections of ACJS.

Anthony Walsh, is a professor of criminology at Boise State University. He completed his doctoral studies at Bowling Green State University at the mature age of 43. With firsthand experience in law enforcement and corrections, he has authored more than 150 journal articles and book chapters and 41 books, including Biology and Criminology; Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens; Law, Justice, and Society (with Hemmens); Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling (with Stohr); The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction (with Bolen, Ashgate); Corrections: The Essentials (with Stohr); The Science Wars: The Politics of Gender and Race; Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions; Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide; Criminology: The Essentials (with Jorgensen); and Answering Atheists: How Science Points to God and the Benefits of Christianity. His areas of interest encompass biosocial criminology, statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling.