CORRECTIONS 21ST CENTURY 8Th Edition By Frank Schmalleger – Test Bank

John Ortiz Smykla, PhD, has retired as director and professor of the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University. He has also held positions at the University of Alabama, where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice; the University of South Alabama, where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice; and the University of West Florida, where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies and was designated Distinguished University Professor. He attained the interdisciplinary social science PhD in criminal justice, sociology, and anthropology from Michigan State University. He possesses undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in sociology from California State University at Northridge.

Dr. Smykla has composed or revised five corrections books, including Probation, Parole, and Community Based Corrections (2013) and Offender Reentry: Rethinking Criminology and Criminal Justice (2014). His coauthored dataset Executions in the United States, 1608–2003: The Espy File, backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, is among the most frequently requested criminal justice data archives from the University of Michigan’s Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Dr. Smykla has published over 75 research articles on corrections and policing matters. He has recently finished a multiyear assessment of federal reentry court and the effect of police body cameras.

In 1986, Dr. Smykla was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and Uruguay. He is affiliated with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Southern Criminal Justice Association. In 1996, the Southern Criminal Justice Association honored him as 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 presided as president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. In 2017, Dr. Smykla and his peers garnered Springer’s Outstanding American Journal of Criminal Justice Article Award for their exploration on police body cameras, and in that same year, one of their articles on police body cameras was identified as Most Read in Criminal Justice and Behavior. He was inducted into the Michigan State University College of Criminal Justice Wall of Fame in 2019.

Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Schmalleger earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and both a master’s and a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University with a distinct focus on criminology. From 1976 to 1994, he instructed criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, presiding for many years as a tenured full professor. Throughout the last 16 of those years, he oversaw the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. As an adjunct professor at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Schmalleger assisted in crafting a graduate program in security management and loss prevention that is currently extended on U.S. military bases globally. He taught subjects in that curriculum for over a decade, concentrating chiefly on computer and information security. Dr. Schmalleger has also taught in the New School for Social Research online graduate program, participating in erecting the world’s premier virtual classrooms for criminal justice remote learning.

Dr. Schmalleger is the writer of several articles and numerous 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 the founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies (previously The Justice Professional) and has served as imprint consultant for Greenwood Publishing Group’s criminal justice reference collection.