作者: Chris L. Gibson

Chris L. Gibson is a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the National Institute of Justice and teaches in the School of Sociology and Criminology & Law at University of Florida.  His research interests include Life Course and Biosocial Criminology, Neighborhood and Contextual Development, and Quantitative Methods. Marvin Krohn is Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at University of Florida. His research interests in juvenile delinquency focus on theoretical explanations of delinquent and deviant behavior. He is the recipient of a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for “A Panel Study of Reciprocal Causal Model of Delinquency” and one from the National Institute of Drug Abuse for a study entitled “A Social Network Approach to Drug Use of Minority Youth.” He is co-editor of the 5th edition of Delinquent Behavior (Prentice Hall, 1991), and the Handbook on Crime and Deviance (Springer, 2009). Recently Krohn received both the University Award and the Chancellor”s Award for Excellence in Teaching.