Alex Alvarez earned his PhD in sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 and is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. His main areas of study have been in the areas of minorities, crime and criminal justice, and the areas of collective and interpersonal violence. He has published on Native Americans, Latinos, and African Americans, fear of crime, sentencing, as well as on justifiable and criminal homicide, and genocide. His scholarship has appeared in edited volumes and a range of journals.… His first book, Governments, Citizens, and Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2001) was a nominee for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences book of the year award in 2002, as well as a Raphael Lemkin book award nominee from the International Association of Genocide Scholars Book in 2003. His second book, Murder American Style (Wadsworth, 2002) was co-authored with Ronet Bachman. In 2009 he published Genocide Crimes with Routledge. He also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims , and is an editorial board member for the journals War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity: An International Journal and Idea: A Journals of Social Issues . He is currently co-editor of the new journal Genocide Studies and Prevention , and also serves as a co-editor of the H-Genocide List Serve Discussion network.
<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>