Amy Anderson is an Associate Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology/Criminology from Ohio State University in 1997, M.A. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program (Sociology Department) at Pennsylvania State University (2000), and her Ph.D. from the Crime, Law, & Justice Program at Pennsylvania State University in 2003.

Her research interests include time use and deviance, the relationship between family, school, and neighborhoods and delinquency, public perceptions of sex offenders, and quantitative methods.

Selected Publications

Anderson, Amy L., and Lorine A. Hughes. 2009. “Exposure to Situations Conducive to Delinquent Behavior: The Effects of Time Use, Income, and Transportation.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 46(1): 5-34.

Ménard, Kim, Amy L. Anderson, and Suzanne M. Godboldt. 2009. “Gender Differences in Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism.” Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36(1): 61-76.

Anderson, Amy L. and Lisa L. Sample. 2008. “Public Awareness and Action Resulting from Sex Offender Notification Laws.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, 19(4): 371-396.

Osgood, D. Wayne and Amy L. Anderson. 2004. “Unstructured Socializing and Rates of Delinquency.” Criminology, 42(3): 519-550.

Anderson, Amy L. "Individual and Contextual Influences on Delinquency: The Role of the Single Parent Family." 2002. Journal of Criminal Justice, 30(6): 575-587.

Candice Batton is an Associate Professor and Director of the School. She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska Lincoln (1991), M.A. in Sociology from Kansas State University (1993), and Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University (1999).

Her primary research interest is historical studies of crime and violence rates in the United States.  She is also interested in gender differences in crime.  The majority of her work utilizes econometric and time series analysis techniques to examine factors associated with 20th century trends in crime and violence rates.  Her work has appeared in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Homicide Studies, and Historical Methods.

Selected Publications

Ogle, Robbin S., and Candice Batton. 2009. “Revisiting Patriarchy: Its Conceptualization and Operationalization in Criminology.” Critical Criminology 17:159-182.

Jorgensen, Edan L., Candice Batton, and Stacia Jorgensen. (Forthcoming) . “ Strain on the Street: Victimization and Suicide among Homeless Youth.” International Journal of Sociological Research.

Batton, Candice. 2004. “Gender Differences in Lethal Violence: Historical Trends in the Relationship Between Homicide and Suicide Rates, 1960-2000.” Justice Quarterly 21:3:423-462.

Batton, Candice, and Colleen Kadleck. 2004. “Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Racial Profiling Research.” Police Quarterly 7:1:30-64.

Pauline Brennan is an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, in May of 1999.

Her areas of research include court processing, correctional issues, and adult-female offenders. She is author of Women Sentenced to Jail in New York City, published in 2002 by LFB Scholarly Publishing. Dr. Brennan also serves as Director of the London: Study Abroad Program that takes 100+ students to London each year to learn firsthand about crime and justice in England.

Selected Publications

Brennan, Pauline K. 2009. “Race and Sentencing Outcomes among Female Drug Offenders in North Carolina: A Consideration of Earlier Case Processing Outcomes.” Journal of Crime and Justice.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Cassia Spohn. 2009. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/ethnicity and Sex on Sentence Length Decisions in Federal Courts.” Race and Social Problems, 1(4): 200-217.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Abby L. Vandenberg. 2009. “Depictions of Female Offenders in Front-Page Newspaper Stories: The Importance of Race/Ethnicity.” International Journal of Social Inquiry, 2(2): 141-175.

Brennan, Pauline K. 2009. “The Joint Effects of Offender Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Sentencing Outcomes” in M.D. Krohn, A.J. Lizotte, & G.P. Hall (eds.) Handbook on Crime and Deviance. New York: Springer Science and Business Media.

Brennan, Pauline K. and Cassia Spohn. 2008. “Race/ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes among Drug Offenders in North Carolina.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 24(4): 371-398.

Samantha Clinkinbeard is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Psychology Central College in Pella, Iowa (2002), M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Her primary research interest is in juvenile delinquency though she also has teaching and research interests surrounding research methods, juvenile justice, and the intersection between psychology and the law. She is currently looking at issues of social support and future orienation as they relate to delinquency.

Selected Publications

Miller, M. K., Griffin, T. W., Clinkinbeard, S. S., and R. M. Thomas. 2009. “The Psychology of AMBER Alert: Unresolved Issues and Implications.” Social Science Journal 46:1:111-123.

Marsh, S. C., Clinkinbeard, S. S., Thomas, R. T., and W. P. Evans. 2007. “Risk and Protective Factors Predictive of Sense of Coherence during Adolescence.” Journal of Health Psychology 12:2:281-284.

Miller, M. K. and S. S. Clinkinbeard. 2006. “Improving the AMBER Alert System: Psychology Research and Policy Recommendations.” Law and Psychology Review, 30:1-21.

John Crank is Professor. He received his Masters in Sociology in Tucson in 1974 and in Public Administration in Springfield, Illinois, in 1976 and Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in 1987.

He has published in the area of organizational culture and structure, focusing on the police and on parole and probation; and in the areas of criminal justice theory and counter-terrorism. He has been active in grants-writing, with two National Institute of Justice grants. He has published 5 books, two of which are in their second edition and received the "Outstanding Book Award" in 2004 from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book, Imagining Justice.

Selected Publications

Liu, Yanhua, and John Crank. (Forthcoming.) “Citizen Attitudes Toward the Police: Towards Theoretical Relevance.” Criminal Justice Studies 23(2).

Crank, John, and Blythe Bowman. (Forthcoming.) “Toward an Interpretive Criminal Justice.” Critical Criminology.

Caldero, Michael, and John P. Crank. 2010. Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause (3 rd Edition). Anderson Press: Lexis/Nexis.

Crank, John, and Andrew Giacomazzi. 2009. “A Sheriffs Office as a Learning Organization.” Police Quarterly.

Crank, John P., and Patricia Gregor. 2004. Counter-terrorism After 9/11: Justice, Security, and Ethics Reconsidered. Anderson Press: Lexus/Nexus.

Crank, John P. 2003. Understanding Police Culture (2 nd Edition). Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Press.

Crank, John P. 2002. Imagining Justice. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson. (Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award Winner for 2004).

Greg DeLone is an Assistant Professor. He received a Ph.D. in Public Administration in 2002 and M.P.A. in 1996 from UNO; and a B.S. in political science from Florida State University in 1986.

His research interests are policing, the fear of crime, crime in public housing, public policy, and organizational issues. He has been involved in numerous community service and research oriented projects including an evaluation of the Nebraska State Patrol, strategic planning assistance to the Red Cross, and an evaluation of the Minor in Possession Diversion Program for the Health and Safety Council.

Selected Publications

DeLone, Gregory J., Sam Hilliard, Michaela Schaaf, and Bill Wells. 1999. “An Evaluation of the Minor in Possession Diversion Program of the Safety and Health Council of Greater Omaha, Inc.” Research monograph.

Roncek, Dennis W., Gregory J. DeLone, and Brandon DAndrea (2001). “Site-Specific Comparisons of the 1998-1999 OHA PHDEP Surveys.” Report to the Omaha Housing Authority. Funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development through the Omaha Housing Authority.

Hughes, Lorine A., and Gregory J. DeLone. 2007. "Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses: Serious Crimes, Nuisance, or Both?" Social Science Computer Review, 25(1), 78-98.

Miriam A. DeLone received a PhD. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Her research interests include political economy and social control; race, ethnicity, gender and sentencing; and corrections.

Her teaching interests are minorities and crime, criminology, corrections, law and social control, nature of crime, and administration of justice. She is co-author of The Color of Justice, (Wadsworth Publishing) with colleagues Samuel Walker and Cassia Spohn. She is former editor of The Criminologist, the official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology.

Selected Publications

DeLone, Gregory J., and Miriam A. DeLone. (Forthcoming, 2010). “Crime Policy from a Public Health Perspective”, in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader. Edited by Karim Ismaili. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Walker, Samuel, Cassia Spohn and Miriam DeLone. 2007. The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America, 4 th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Kautt, Paula, and Miriam A. DeLone. 2006. “Sentencing Outcomes Under Competing But Coexisting Sentencing Interventions: Untying the Gordian Knot.” Criminal Justice Review 31: 105-131.

Chris Eskridge currently serves as Professor of Criminology Criminal Justice and as Executive Director of the American Society of Criminology. He took his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Ohio State University in 1978.

He has authored/edited four books, given more than 200 professional papers/presentation in some two dozen countries, and has more than 60 professional publications. He has also received numerous teaching awards. more>>

Selected Publications

Eskridge, Chris. 2001. Mexican Cartels and their Integration into Mexican Socio-Political Culture. Huntsville, TX: Office of International Criminal Justice.

Eskridge, Chris (Ed.). 2004. Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues, 4th Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press.

Eskridge, Chris. 2009. “Crime and Justice in the 21 st Century and the Role of Criminology, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Vol 1 (2), July 2009, pp. 1-24.

Dennis Hoffman is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He teaches two undergraduate courses, Survey of Criminal Justice and Organized Crime. His main area of interest is organized crime in Chicago.

His first book, Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders (So. Ill. Univ. Press, 1993) highlighted the role of urban vigilantes in bringing Al Capone to justice. He is currently writing a sequel, No One is Above the Law: The Trial of Al Capone. This work-in-progress fits in the genre of research on criminal justice and the media. 

Selected Publications

Hoffman, Dennis. 1993. Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago’s Private War Against Capone. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Hoffman, Dennis and Vincent J. Webb. 1981. “Suicide as Murder at Common Law: Another Chapter in the Falsification of Consensus Theory.” Criminology 19 (3): 372-384.

Hoffman, Dennis, William Little, and Gary Perlstein. 1980. “Racial Minorities and Women Workers in a Big City Police Department: A Case Study in the Elusiveness of Affirmative Action.” Criminal Justice Review 5 (2): 22-30.

Lorine Hughes is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.S. in Sociology from Oregon State University in 1996, M.A. in Sociology from Washington State University in 1998, and Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University in 2003.

Her scholarly interests include youth street gangs, criminological theory, quantitative methods, and sex offenders and sex offender legislation.

Selected Publications

Hughes, Lorine A., and Keri B. Burchfield. 2008. “Sex Offender Residence Restrictions in Chicago: An Environmental Injustice?” Justice Quarterly 25(4): 647-673.

Hughes, Lorine A. 2007. “Youth Street Gangs.” Pp. 41-59 in Youth Violence and Delinquency: Monsters and Myths (Vol. 1), edited by Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Short, James F., Jr., and Lorine A. Hughes (Eds.). 2006. Studying Youth Gangs. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Hughes, Lorine A., and James F. Short, Jr. 2005. “Disputes Involving Youth Street Gang Members: Micro-social Contexts.” Criminology 43(1): 43-76.

Susan Jacobs earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

She has published on topics involving sexual assault of doctors and lawyers directed toward their patients and clients, and development of policy to govern issues related to AIDS in correctional facilities. Her most recent publications are two books, Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework (co-authored with Robbin S. Ogle) and Case Studies in Criminal Procedure. She recently lectured in Israel on self defense and domestic violence, and will be a Visiting Professor in Criminal Law in Slovakia in 2007. Susan has been awarded a Canterbury Fellowship and will be teaching at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2009.

Colleen Kadleck is an Associate Professor and she also serves as Coordinator of the Lincoln Undergraduate program. She received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University (1994), M.S. from the University of Cincinnati (1995), and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati (2001).

Her research interests focus primarily in issues in policing and the use of quantitative methods. Currently her work is focusing on the systematic study of police unions and methodological and statistical issues in the measurement of agreement between raters.

Selected Publications

Kadleck, Colleen. 2003. “Police Employee Organizations.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management 26(2): 341-351.

Batton, Candice and Colleen Kadleck. 2004. “Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Racial Profiling Research.” Police Quarterly 7(1): 30-64.

Hughes, Lorine and Colleen Kadleck. 2008. “Community Notification and Community Stratification.” Justice Quarterly 25(3): 469-495.

Chris E. Marshall is an Associate Professor. He studied sociology at Bowling Green State University (B.A. in 1971; M.A. in 1975). He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University in 1978.

His teaching/research interests include theory construction focusing on the structural aspects of discursive theory, exploratory data analysis and graphing techniques for multivariate categorical data, general research methodology and statistics, social control, deterrence, and social indicators.

Selected Publications

Marshall, Chris E. 1994. “The Single Case Orientation vs. The Aggregate Orientation: Problem of Communication in Criminal Justice.” The Justice Professional .

Marshall, Chris E. and T. Hank Robinson with Dae-Hoon [Tim] Kwak. 2003. “Transnational Crime: Computer Crime in the Brave New World,” in Philip Reichel (ed.) The Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice.

Marshall, Ineke H., Chris E. Marshall, and Ling Ren. 2009. "Mixed Method Measurement of Homicide Events in Comparative Research: An Illustration of the Potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis" International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 33:2.

Robert F. Meier is a Professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Sociology.

He is the author or editor of 15 books and over 50 articles in professional journals. His scholarly interests include general processes of deviance and social control with a special interest in crime and crime-control policy. His most recent books include The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis (with Leslie Kennedy and Vincent Sacco, 2001), Criminal Justice and Moral Issues (with Gilbert Geis, 2006), and Sociology of Deviant Behavior, 13th edition (with Marshall B. Clinard, 2008). He is presently involved (with Jessie Krienert) in another book project, Criminology: The Essentials, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Selected Publications

Meier, Robert F., and Jessie Krienert, Criminology: The Essentials. (New York: Oxford University Press, in press).

Clinard, Marshall B., and Robert F. Meier, Sociology of Deviant Behavior, 14th edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, in press).

Swatt, Marc, and Robert F. Meier, 2008. "Self-Control Theory and Property Crime," in Erich Goode, ed., Out of Control? An Assessment of The General Theory of Crime. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Meier, Robert F. “Corporate Crime” invited chapter for William J. Chambliss, ed., Series in Crime and Punishment. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. In press.

Robbin Ogle is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Chair in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO. She obtained her Masters Degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in Sociology/Criminology in 1988. She received Ph.D.s in Criminology and Women's Studies from Penn State University in 1995.

Her research interests are Criminological Theory, Organizational Theory, Female Criminality, Corrections, and Serial Killing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The Prison Journal, The Criminal Law Journal, and The Journal of Crime & Delinquency. She is author/editor of several books, the most recent is Self Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework which creates a new theory for explaining battered women who kill and the use of self defense. She is currently editing a new book with Dr. Candice Batton, which will serve as a general text for courses on Serial Homicide.

Selected Publications

Ogle, Robbin S., Maier-Katkin, Daniel, & Bernard, Thomas J. 1995. "A Theory of Homicidal Behavior Among Women." Criminology 33(2):173-193.

Ogle, Robbin S., and Susan Jacobs. 2002. Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Ogle, Robbin S., and Candice Batton. 2009. "Revisiting Patriarchy: Its Conceptualization and Operationalization in Criminology," Critical Criminology 17:159-182.

Maier-Katkin, Daniel, and Robbin S. Ogle. 1996. "Policy and Disparity: Punishment of Infanticide in Britain and the U.S." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 21(2):85-104.

Ogle, Robbin S. 1999. "Prison Privatization: An Environmental Catch 22." Justice Quarterly 16(3):579-600.

Batton, Candice, and Robbin S. Ogle. 2003. "Who's It Gonna Be - You or Me? The Potential of Social Learning Theory for Integrated Homicide-Suicide Theory," pp. 85-108 in Ronald L. Akers and Gary F. Jensen (Eds.) Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime: A Guide for the New Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Lisa L. Sample is an Associate Professor and received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research interests include criminal and juvenile justice policy. More specifically, she conducts research in juvenile and criminal justice sentencing disparities, drug control policies, prison reentry programs, and sex offender behavior and policies. She has worked with several state and local agencies to evaluate programs intended to address juvenile truancy, prisoner reentry, drug use, and methamphetamine manufacture and sale.

Selected Publications

Anderson, Amy L., Mary K. Evans, and Lisa L. Sample. (Forthcoming). “Who Accesses the S ex O ffender Reg istries? A L ook at L egislative I ntent and C itizen A ction in Nebraska.” Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law, and Society.

Spohn, Cassia, and L isa L. Sample. (Forthcoming). “The Dangerous Drug Offender in Federal Court: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culpability.” Crime & Delinquency.

Anderson, Amy L., and Lisa L. Sample. 2008. “Public Awareness and Action Resulting from Sex Offender Community Notification Laws.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 19:4: 371-396.

Sample, Lisa L., and Colleen Kadleck. 2008. “Sex Offender Laws: Legislators’ Accounts of the Need for Policy. Criminal Justice Policy Review 19:1: 40-62.

Jukka Savolainen is an Associate Professor. A native of Finland, he earned his MA in social sciences at the University of Helsinki (1990) and PhD in sociology at State University of New York, Albany (1996). Prior to UNO, Dr. Savolainen has taught at Western Washington University, University of Helsinki, and University of Minnesota. He has also held senior-level research positions at New York City Criminal Justice Agency and Ministry of Justice ( Finland). Vita.

Dr. Savolainen has published mostly in the area of violence with an emphasis on cross-national comparisons. Recent work appears in Criminology, Homicide Studies, European Journal of Criminology, and The International Handbook of Criminology. His current research is focused on life course explanations of criminal behavior and crime prevention.

Selected Publications

Savolainen, Jukka, Petteri Sipilä, Pekka Martikainen, and Amy L. Anderson. 2009. “Family, Community, and Lifestyle: Adolescent Victimization in Helsinki”. The Sociological Quarterly 50: 715-38.

Savolainen, Jukka. 2009. “Work, Family, and Criminal Desistance: Adult Social Bonds in a Nordic Welfare State”. British Journal of Criminology 49:285-304.

Candace Kruttschnitt and Jukka Savolainen. 2009. “Ages of Chivalry, Places of Paternalism: Gender and Sentencing in Finland”. European Journal of Criminology 6:225-247.

Felson, Richard, Jukka Savolainen, Mikko Aaltonen & Heta Moustgaard. 2008. “Is the Association between Alcohol Use and Delinquency Causal or Spurious?” Criminology 46:785-808.

Savolainen, Jukka; Lehti, Martti, & Kivivuori, Janne. 2008. "Historical Origins of a Cross-National Puzzle: Homicide in Finland, 1750-2000". Homicide Studies 12(1): 67-89.

Pete Simi is an Associate Professor. He received his B.A. in social science from Washington State University (1995), M.A. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (1999) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (2003).

His research interests focus on juvenile delinquency and gangs, hate crime and hate groups, violence, social movements, social psychology, and qualitative methods. During the past 13 years he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with neo-Nazi groups across the United States. He has published a series of articles that, in part, examine organizational dynamics, criminal activity, and the white power music scene. In 2006, he was awarded a grant from the Department of Justice to study recruitment strategies among white supremacist terror groups. His book manuscript, American Swastika, is forthcoming in 2009 and explains how white supremacists sustain their movement in a highly antagonistic environment. He is currently providing expert witness consultation on several murder cases involving neo-Nazi groups.

Other research projects involve the use of network modeling to analyze the social organization of street gang violence; examining the causal mechanisms that explain the inter-generational transmission of criminality; and analysis of the relationship between adolescent health and delinquency using the Add Health dataset.

Selected Publications

Simi, Pete and Robert Futrell. 2009. American Swastika: the Hidden Spaces of Hate.

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Simi, Pete and Robert Futrell. 2009. “Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma.” Social Problems 56, 1:89-110.

Futrell, Robert and Pete Simi. 2004. “Free Spaces, Collective Identity, and the Persistence of U.S. White Power Activism.” Social Problems, 51:16-42.

Marc L. Swatt is an Assistant Professor. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 1997 and in Criminal Justice from Kent State University in 1998. He received his M.A. in Criminal Justice from Kent State in 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2003. His primary research and teaching interests include criminological theory, quantitative methods, and spatial crime analysis.

Selected Publications

Murray, R.K. and M.L. Swatt. Forthcoming 2010. “Disaggregating the Relationship between Schools and Crime: A Spatial Analysis.” Crime and Delinquency.

Fox, J.A. and M.L. Swatt. 2008. “Multiple Imputation of the Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2005.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25: 51-77.

Swatt, M.L. , C.L. Gibson, and N.L. Piquero. 2007. “Exploring the Utility of General Strain Theory in Explaining Problematic Alcohol Consumption by Police Officers.” Journal of Criminal Justice, 35: 596-611.

Roncek, D.W. and M.L. Swatt. 2006. “For Those Who Like Odds: A Direct Interpretation of the Logit Coefficient for Continuous Variables.” Social Science Quarterly, 87, 731-738.

Swatt, M.L. and N. He. 2006. “Exploring the Difference between Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicides: Revisiting the Concept of Situated Transactions.” Homicide Studies, 10, 1-14.

Rebecca Trammell is an Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. in Sociology from San Diego State University (1999). She received her M.A. degree in sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2002), and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine (2007).  

Her research interests include violence, law and society and corrections. She was a researcher for the California Prison Rape Elimination Act and worked with prison reentry programs in Southern California. Her current research focuses on prison violence and Serbian genocide.

Selected Publications

Trammell, Rebecca. 2009. “Values, Rules and Keeping the Peace: How men Describe Order and the Inmate Code in California Prisons.” Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 30 (8): 746-771.

Trammell, Rebecca and Scott Chenault. 2009. “We Have to Take These Guys Out: Motivations for Assaulting Incarcerated Child Molesters.” Symbolic Interaction. 32 (4): 334-350.

Trammell, Rebecca. 2009. “Relational Violence in Women’s Prison: How Women Describe Interpersonal Violence and Gender.” Women and Criminal Justice. 19 (4): 267-285.

Bill Wakefield is a Professor and Director of Outreach for the School.

His primary teaching and research interests are comparative criminology and criminal justice, corrections, and program evaluation. As the co-author of Criminal Justice in England and the United States, 2nd edition, 2008, and numerous professional publications, he is currently working on two drug court evaluation grants. In addition, from 1978-2009, Dr. Wakefield has been the leader of a study-abroad tour to England each year in which over 2,000 students have participated. He was also selected for the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University for his contributions in the classroom.

Selected Publications

Hirschel, D., Wakefield, William, and Scott Sasse. 2007. Criminal Justice in England and the United States, 2 nd Edition. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Wakefield, William, and Scott Chenault. 2009. "A Response to Useem and Clayton's Making Prisons Safer:, in Contemporary Issues and Criminal Justice Policy, by Frost, Freilich & Clear, Wadsworth-Sage Pub., California, pp. 362-368.

Wakefield, William, and Yanhua Liu. 2009. Final Report: Sarpy County Adult Drug Court Program: Results and Analysis of Four-Year Research Evaluation Project, UNO, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Samuel Walker is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice. He received a Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University in 1973. He has taught at UNO since 1974. Vita

He is the author of 11 books on policing, criminal justice history and policy, and civil liberties. Professor Walker’s current research involves police accountability, focusing primarily on citizen oversight of the police and police Early Warning (EW) systems. The research on citizen oversight is published in Police Accountability. more>>

Steve Baxley is an attorney in private practice in Omaha. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree at the University of Houston Law Center. He has been a prosecutor, defense lawyer, author, and commentator on national and local television. He has tried over 100 cases from traffic offenses to murder in both state and federal courts.

James Bogner started his career in law enforcement as a police officer, rising from patrol officer to Detective Division Commander, before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent. During his 27 year FBI career, Mr. Bogner served in various capacities from investigator to executive management in field offices and Washington, DC, retiring as Special Agent in Charge of the FBI for Nebraska and Iowa. He then served for four years as the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) first law enforcement official, initiating that anti-terrorism and intelligence sharing program in support of TSA's aviation security mission in Nebraska. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Police Standards Advisory Council of Nebraska and Chairman of the Omaha Chapter of ASIS International, an organization for security professionals.

Mr. Bogner holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, and a Masters in Administration of Justice from Wichita State University.

Michael Butera received his Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNO and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from UNL. He began teaching as an adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at UNO in 1989, and has also taught on the Lincoln campus for several years.

Mr. Butera is a 24 year veteran of the Omaha Police Department, where he was assigned as the commander of the Criminal Investigations Bureau at the time of his retirement in 2007. His wide range of experience included assignments in the Uniform Patrol Bureau, Administrative Services Bureau, Burglary Unit, Homicide Unit, Sex Assault Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Intelligence Unit, and in the Narcotics and Gang Units.

Mark Foxall is the Deputy Director for the Douglas County Department of Corrections. He began his law enforcement career as an Omaha Police Officer and also worked as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of Project Impact with the United States Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, a Master's degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, all from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Gary Hill has been working with corrections programs since 1964 and has written more than 100 articles and publications. He now specializes in correctional systems from nations in crisis and often works with the United Nations and other international organizations.

Steve Russell has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska since 1985. He has been involved in both civil and criminal litigation representing the United States. He is currently assigned to white collar prosecutions involving fraud and tax violations. Mr. Russell graduated from Ball State University, Summa Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Economics and History in 1979 and from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1982. He was employed in private practice in Kearney, Nebraska, and as a Deputy County Attorney in Hall County before joining the United States Attorney's Office.

Larry Wayne completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology at the University of California-Fullerton in 1974. He began his career in corrections at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska soon thereafter. Within the Department of Corrections he has served as a Case Manager, Unit Manager, Warden of the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, Warden of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center, Deputy Director for Programs and Community Services, and is currently Interim Deputy Director for the Institutions Division within DCS.