Corrections: The Essentials
Mary K. Stohr is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. She received a Ph.D. (1990) in political science, with specializations in public administration and criminal justice, from Washington State University. Professor Stohr has published over 80 academic works in the areas of correctional organizations and operation, correctional personnel, inmate needs and assessment, program evaluation, gender, and victimization. Her books, with others, include The American Prison (with Cullen and Jonson); Corrections: The Essentials (with Walsh); Correctional Assessment, Casework and Counseling (with Walsh); Corrections: A Text Reader (with Walsh and Hemmens); Criminal Justice Management: Theory and Practice in Justice Centered Organizations (with Collins); and The Prison Experience (with Hemmens). She is the Executive Director of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, received the Founders Award from ACJS in 2009, and is a Co-Founder of the Corrections Section of ACJS.Anthony Walsh, Professor of Criminology at Boise State University, received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University at the ripe old age of 43. He has field experience in law enforcement and corrections. He is the author of over 150 journal articles/book chapters and  34 books, includingBiology and Criminology(Routledge, 2009),Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens(Carolina Academic Press, ©2011),Law, Justice, and Society(with Craig Hemmens, Oxford University Press, 2011),Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling(with Mary Stohr, American Correctional Association, 2011),The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction(with Jon Bolen, Ashgate, 2012), Corrections: The Essentials(with Mary Stohr, SAGE, 2012),The Science Wars: The Politics of Gender and Race(Transaction, 2013),Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions(Anderson/Elsevier, 2014),Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide(Transaction, 2014), Criminology: The Essentials (Sage, 2015). His interests include the biosocial criminology, statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling.