About our authors
Clemens Bartollas, PhD, is professor of sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. He holds a BA from Davis and Elkins College, a BD from Princeton Theological Seminary, an STM from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a PhD in sociology, with a special emphasis on criminology, from The Ohio State University. Dr. Bartollas taught at Pembroke State University from 1973 to 1975, at Sangamon State University from 1975 to 1980 and at the University of Northern Iowa from 1981 to the present. He has received a number of honors at the University of Northern Iowa, including Distinguished Scholar, the Donald McKay Research Award and the Regents’ Award for Faculty Excellence. Dr. Bartollas, like his coauthor, is also the author of numerous articles and more than 30 books, including previous editions of Juvenile Delinquency (Allyn & Bacon, 2006), Juvenile Justice in America (with Stuart J. Miller; Prentice Hall, 2011) and Women and the Criminal Justice System (with Katherine Stuart van Wormer; Prentice Hall, 2011).
Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and both master’s (1970) and doctoral (1974) degrees, with special emphasis on sociology, from The Ohio State University. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminology and criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke; for the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university’s Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. The university named him Distinguished Professor in 1991.
Dr. Schmalleger has taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research, helping to build the world’s first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Schmalleger helped develop the university’s graduate programs in administration of justice as well as security administration and loss prevention and taught courses in those curricula for more than a decade. A strong advocate of Web-based instruction, Dr. Schmalleger is also the creator of numerous award-winning websites.
Dr. Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and more than 30 books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today (Pearson), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Pearson), Criminology Today (Pearson), Criminology: A Brief Introduction (Pearson), Criminal Law Today (Pearson) and Corrections in the Twenty-First Century (with John Smykla; McGraw-Hill). He is also the founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies and has served as an imprint adviser for Greenwood Publishing Group’s criminal justice reference series. Visit the author’s website.
Hemant Sharma, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he teaches courses on law, courts and judicial processes. Dr. Sharma received his BA in English in 1997 from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Dean’s List, winner of the prestigious James E. Rice Writing Prize and the goalkeeper for Cornell’s men’s soccer team, which reached the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and 1996. He subsequently earned an MA and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His published research has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Justice System Journal, Politics and Policy, Judicature, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Journal and the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy. He also has coauthored three other textbooks: American Government: The Evolution of a Constitutional Republic (Great River Learning, 2017), Administrative Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2021) and Constitutional Law Today: Foundations for Criminal Justice (Cognella Publishing, 2023).
