Criminology (ePub)

Stephen E. Brown is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University where he served as Department Head for over 10 years. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Criminology from the University of Maryland in 1979. He went through the professorial ranks at East Tennessee State University, serving as Department Chair for 11 years, and left as Professor Emeritus in 2008. Brown has published articles in a number of journals, including Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Criminal Justice Review, Youth and Society, and Social Science Quarterly. His areas of research interest have been broad, covering topics such as family violence, deterrence, delinquency, and application of statistics within criminology. He has served as a Trustee on the board of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and as editor of the American Society of Criminology's The Criminologist. He co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Deviance in 2018.

Finn-Aage Esbensen is an Emeritus E. Desmond Lee Professor of Youth Crime and Violence in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He served as Department Chair from 2009 to 2018. His previous faculty positions were at Western Carolina University (1982-1986) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (1992-2001). In addition to these academic appointments, he has held research positions at the following institutions: the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School (1974); Catholic University (1976-1977); the Behavioral Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado (1980-1981); and the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado (1987-1992). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters examining, among other topics, youth gangs and violence, methodological issues, and victimization. His book