Lessons of Criminology presents the stories, musings, advice, and lifestyle conclusions of well-know criminologists about their research and their careers. This provides students who are considering a criminology career, as well as any younger persons who are already in the early stages of such work, with suggestions about how—and how not—to manage their professional lives. The essays offer a wide range of insight into the elements that will best establish a successful and fulfilling academic life, emphasizing tactics and choices that have worked for the writer. Any reader will finish the book with a much deeper understanding of what is involved in constructing productive and decent life as a criminology teacher and scholar. many of the writers are experienced and secure enough, now, to discuss false starts, mistakes, and miscalculations that they made—and how they survived these errors.

Contributors and Content:

Francis T. Cullen "It's a Wonder Life: Reflections on a Career in Progress"

Charles R. Tittle "Reflections of a Reluctant but Committed Criminologist"

Malcolm W. Klein "Surrounded by Crime: Lessons from One Academic Career"

Frank R. Scarpitti "The Good Boy in a High-Delinquency Area--40 Years Later"

Joan McCord "Learning How to Learn and Its Sequelae"

Gary T. Marx "Looking for Meaning in All the Right Places: The Search for Academic Satisfaction"

Jackson Toby "Ignoring Warnings, I Became a Criminologist"

John Irwin "My Life in Crim"

Richard Quinney "Criminologist as Witness"

Julius Debro "Reflections of an African-American Criminologist"

Rita J. Simon "Looking Back on 40-Plus Years of a Professional Career"

James F. Short, Jr. "Unwinding: Reflections on a Career"

Don C. Gibbons "Doing Well in the Slow Lane"

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Anderson Publishing

Joan McCord
Francis T. Cullen
Frank R. Scarpitti
James F. Short, Jr.
Gilbert Geis