Criminology in Canada (8th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Chris McCormick

Dr. Chris McCormick has degrees from Acadia, Queen’s, and York Universities. He has taught at various institutions and now co-founded the Criminology and Criminal Justice program at St. Thomas University. Professor McCormick’s teaching interests are in cultural studies, discourse analysis, and wrongful convictions. He has published in the areas of crime and media, corporate crime, and historical studies of crime and criminal justice in Canada. From 2004 to 2013, he published Crime Matters, a biweekly column on crime and criminal justice issues in Fredericton.

Larry J. Siegel

Dr. Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx in 1947. While dwelling on Jerome Avenue and attending City College of New York (CCNY) in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence modern culture had on individual behavior: Did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his curiosity in social forces and human behavior to the research of crime and justice. After graduating from CCNY, he attended the criminal justice program at the State College of New York at Albany, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there.

Professor Siegel started his teaching career at Northeastern University and has also held instructing positions at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, and in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell (UML). Now a Professor Emeritus, he continues to teach courses on criminology and criminal justice in UML'S online master's degree program. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, corrections, criminal justice, and criminal procedure. He's a courtroom-certified expert on police conduct and has testified in numerous legal cases.