Degree Information

Ph.D. Sociology, University of Virginia, 2000.
Specialties in Social Control and The Family.
Dissertation Title: The Social Ecology of the Jailing Community as a Predictor of Pretrial Release.

Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Hawaii, 1989.
Course concentration in deviance and social control.
Thesis Title: The Protection of Battered Women in the American Criminal Justice System.

Bachelor of Science, English Education, University of Virginia, 1984.

"Teach your children well,their parents' hell will slowly go by."
-Graham Nash