Violence: The Enduring Problem

About Alexander C. AlvarezRonet D. Bachman

Alex Alvarez PhD is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust Tolerance and Humanitarian Values. His first book Governments Citizens and Genocide was published by Indiana University Press in 2001. His other books include Murder American Style (2002) Genocidal Crimes (2009) and Native America and the Question of Genocide (2014). He has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims was a founding co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention was a co-editor of the H-Genocide List Serve. He has been invited to speak and present his research in various countries such as Austria Bosnia Canada England Germany Lithuania the Netherlands and Sweden. Ronet Bachman PhD is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor of Statistical Methods for Crime and Criminal Justice coauthor of The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice co-editor of Explaining Crime and Criminology: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition she is author of Death and Violence on the Reservation; coauthor of Stress Culture and Aggression in the United States; and coauthor of Murder American Style as well as numerous articles and papers that examine the epidemiology and etiology of violence with a particular emphasis on women the elderly and minority populations. Her most recent federally funded research examines the desistance trajectories of drug-involved offenders 10 years after release from prison using a mixed-method design.