<p class="openingparagraph"><b>Ronet Bachman, PhD, </b>is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor of <i>Statistical Methods for Crime and Criminal Justice </i>(3rd ed.), and coeditor of <i>Explaining Crime and Criminology: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. </i>In addition, she is author of <i>Death and Violence on the Reservation; </i>coauthor of <i>Stress, Culture, and Aggression in the United States; </i>coauthor of <i>Murder American Style; </i>and coauthor of <i>Violence: The Enduring Problem </i>as well… as numerous articles and papers that examine the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with a particular emphasis on women, the elderly, and minority populations. She is currently the Co-PI of a National Institute of Justice–funded study to examine the trajectories of drug-involved offenders 10 years after release from prison using a mixed-method design.</p>