Larry J. Siegel
Larry J. Siegel, Ph.D., was born in the Bronx, New York. While living on Jerome Avenue and attending City College (CCNY) in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence that contemporary culture had on individual behavior. For example, did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his interest in social forces and human behavior to the study of crime and justice. After graduating from CCNY, he attended the newly opened program in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned both master's and doctoral degrees. Dr. Siegel began his teaching career at Northeastern University, where he was a faculty member for nine years. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. He then taught for 27 years at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he is now a professor emeritus. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, criminal justice, courts, corrections, criminal procedure and policing. Larry, his wife Therese and their dog Sophie now live in Naples, Florida, where he continues to write on various topics and issues in crime and justice.
Chris McCormick
Chris McCormick lives in Fredericton with his humanfamily and two dogs, Rusty and Bussy, who were rescued fromshelters in the United States by the National Brittany RescueAssociation to now live a wonderful life in New Brunswick.Chris McCormick has degrees from Acadia, Queen’s, and YorkUniversities. He has taught at various institutions, includingAcadia, York, and Bishop’s University in Quebec, and MountSaint Vincent, Dalhousie, and Saint Mary’s University inHalifax, before moving to St. Thomas University to co-foundthe Criminology and Criminal Justice program. This is one ofonly five criminology programs in Canada, and is known forits strong social justice focus. Professor McCormick’s teachinginterests are in cultural studies, discourse analysis, and wrongful convictions. In addition, he has published in the areas of crime and media, corporate crime, and historical studies of crime and criminal justice in Canada. Between 2004 and 2013, he published CrimeMatters, a biweekly column on crime and criminal justice issues in Fredericton, New Brunswick’s city newspaper. Samples of this work in public scholarship are featured in chapters throughout the book. After all, it is not just what we do as academics that matters, but how we communicate it to others, our students, and our community. Toparaphrase Karl Marx, the point is not just to understand the world but to make it better.
