Exploring Criminal Justice: The Essentials, Second Edition

Robert M. Regoli, PhD-University of Colorado at Boulder

In his lifetime, Robert M. Regoli has found himself in assorted roles relating to criminal justice. In addition to his extensive experience researching and studying police and corrections officers, he also has been a crime victim, secret delinquent, criminal complainant and witness, jury member, and legal consultant. He was born in Antioch, California, earned his B.S. in psychology, M.A. in police science and administration, and Ph.D. in sociology at Washington State University in Pullman. Over the course of his career, he has taught at Indiana State University, Texas Christian University, and, currently, the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Dr. Regoli has held several positions at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, including being the President and named a Fellow. He also was former Executive Editor of The Social Science Journal, is the recipient of two William J. Fulbright awards, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He also has been a consultant to local law enforcement agencies, as well as the Colorado Department of Corrections, Indiana Department of Corrections, National Institute of Corrections, and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. He was also a member of the Indiana Juvenile Justice Task Force and the Task Force for the Children’s Constitutional Rights. Dr. Regoli has written extensively about criminal justice issues for more three decades and has amassed more than 100 professional journal publications and 14 books.

John D. Hewitt, PhD-Grand Valley State University

John D. Hewitt (Ph.D., Washington State University, 1975) is professor of criminal justice at Grand Valley State University. He has taught for more 35 years at small and large state colleges and universities as well as in small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and West. During his career, Dr. Hewitt has worked in the Indiana Department of Corrections, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Delaware County (Indiana) Youth Services Bureau and Bethel Place for Boys, and has testified as an expert witness in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan in cases dealing with the death penalty, drug trafficking, judicial sentencing, and youth gangs.

He has also written extensively about issues of crime, criminal justice, and delinquency, including co-authoring Exploring Criminal Justice (with Robert Regoli, Jones & Bartlett, 2008), Criminal Justice: The Essentials (with Robert Regoli, Jones & Bartlett, 2010), Delinquency in Society, 8th edition (with  Robert Regoli and Matt DeLisi, Jones & Bartlett, 2010), as well as more than 50 articles on issues ranging from adolescent maltreatment and delinquency, juvenile gangs, judicial sentencing patterns, victim-offender relationships in homicide cases, and work stress among police executives.

Marie-Helen Maras, PhD-Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York

Marie-Helen Maras, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. She is an international editor for the Journal of Applied Security Research, and the President-Elect of Protect New York, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, Albany, New York. Marie is also the creator and co-editor of the Protect New York Newsletter.

She earned her PhD in Law from the Center for Criminology, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) in 2008. She has graduate degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice (University of Oxford, UK) and Industrial and Organizational Psychology (University of New Haven) . She also has undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Computer and Information Science (University of Maryland University College).

Marie served in the US Navy (1997-2004), where she gained extensive law enforcement and security experience from her posts as a Navy Law Enforcement Specialist and Command Investigator. Her main research interests are cybercrime, security, surveillance, criminal profiling, terrorism and counterterrorism.