Frank Schmalleger

Frank Schmalleger, born 1947, is an American criminologist, academic and author who holds the position of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame, a masters degree in 1970, and a doctorate in sociology with a criminology specialization in 1974 from Ohio State University, and served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. His academic career began at Ohio State in 1970, continued at Ohio Dominican College, and moved to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1975, where he chaired his department from 1978 to 1994; he retired from teaching in 1994 and founded the Justice Research Association, where he serves as director. He has authored numerous widely used criminal justice textbooks published by Pearson, including Criminal Justice Today, Criminology Today, and Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, often described as the gold standard among introductory criminal justice texts. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/