Professor Frank Schmalleger

Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He chaired the university’s Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice for 16 years. Schmalleger has taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research, helping build the world’s first electronic classrooms. Schmalleger is also the creator of a number of award-winning websites, including the CJ Cybrary (a criminal justice search engine), and the Criminal Justice Distance Learning Consortium (although neither exists in its original form today). Frank Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and more than 40 books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today (now in a fifteenth edition), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Pearson, 2018), Criminology Today (Pearson, 2019), Criminology (Pearson, 2018), and Criminal Law Today (Pearson, 2016). He is also founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies. Frank’s philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these words: “In order to communicate knowledge we must first catch, then hold, a person’s interest—be it student, colleague, or policymaker. Our writing, our speaking, and our teaching must be relevant to the issues facing people today, and they must in some way help solve those problems.” Visit his Amazon author page at amazon.com/author/frankschmalleger, and follow his Tweets @schmalleger.