Shaun L. Gabbidon is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E.

B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, and as an adjunct Associate Professor in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice pedagogy. The author of more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, his recent publications have appeared in the Criminal Justice and Behavior, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and the Journal of Black Studies. Dr. Gabbidon has co-authored (with Dr. Helen Taylor Greene) two books, African American Criminological Thought (2000) and Race and Crime (2008). He has also co-edited three books, African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2002) (co-edited with Dr.

Helen Taylor Greene & Dr. Vernetta Young), Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader (2005) (co-edited with Dr. Helen Taylor Greene), and Race and Juvenile Justice (2006) (co-edited with Dr. Everette B. Penn and Dr. Helen Taylor Greene). His latest books are W.E.

B. Du Bois on Crime and Justice: Laying the Foundations of Sociological Criminology (2007; Ashgate) and Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2007; Routledge). Professor Gabbidon currently serves as the book series editor of Routledge's Criminology and Justice Studies Series and SUNY Press's Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice Series.