Race and Crime
Shaun L. Gabbidonis Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice pedagogy. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 12 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. His most recent books includeRace, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice: An International Dilemma(2009),Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime(2nd edition) (2010), andA Theory of African American Offending(with James Unnever) (2011). He cur­rently serves as the inaugural editor of the new Sage journalRace and Justice: An Interna­tional Journal.Helen Taylor Greeneis Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU) and currently serves as Interim Associate Dean in the SPA. Earlier, she served as chair and graduate program director of the Department of Administration of Justice at TSU. She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and PhD in Criminol­ogy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Areas of interest include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored, co-authored, and edited peer-reviewed articles and books and, most recently, served as lead editor for theEncyclopedia of Race and Crime(2009). In 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime.