Criminal Law Today

About Daniel HallFrank Schmalleger

Frank Schmalleger Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He chaired the universitys department of sociology social work and criminal justice for almost 20 years while specializing in research in crime and delinquency. He has taught dozens of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level in both on-ground and on-line environments.  Schmalleger is the author of many books and journal articles including the standard-setting Criminal Justice Today 14/e (Pearson); Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction 12/e (Pearson); Criminology Today 8/e (Pearson); Criminology 3/e (Pearson); Criminal Law Today 6/e (Pearson); Corrections in the Twenty-First Century 6/e (McGraw-Hill; with John Smykla); Courts and Criminal Justice in America (Pearson; with Larry Siegel and John Worrall); Juvenile Delinquency 10/e (Pearson; with Clem Bartollas); and Policing 2/e (Pearson; with John Worrall). Schmalleger has worked with U.S. military personnel -- primarily members of the Armys CID MPs Air Force SPs and members of Air Force OSI from the late 1970s to the early 1990s helping officers make successful transition to civilian life. Schmallegers philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these words: In order to communicate knowledge we must first catch then hold a persons interestbe it student colleague or policymaker. Our writing our speaking and our teaching must be relevant to the problems facing people today and they must in some way help solve those problems.   Daniel E. Hall J.D. Ed.D. earned his B.S. at Indiana University Juris Doctor at Washburn University and Doctor of Education in higher education curriculum and instruction at University of Central Florida. He is a graduate of Harvard Universitys Institute for Educational Management. He practiced law both in the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia. He has been on the faculties of the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at University of Central Florida Department of Criminal Justice at The University of Toledo and the Department of Justice and Community Studies at Miami University where he is presently professor and department chair. Dr. Hall is also visiting professor of law at Sun Yat-sen University in the Peoples Republic of China. He is the author of over 20 public law textbooks including revisions and a dozen law and social science articles on justice subjects. You can learn more about Daniel at www.danielhall.org and he may be contacted at hallslawbooks@gmail.com.