Matthew J. Giblin is an associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.� He earned his doctorate in Criminal Justice from Indiana University in 2004.� His primary research interest involves applying organizational theories to the study of criminal justice agencies.� Specifically, he and his colleagues have tested contingency, resource dependence, and institutional theory explanations of police homeland security preparedness, community policing implementation, and crime analysis unit adoption.