Bryan ByersBryan D. Byers is professor emeritus of criminal justice and criminology at Ball State University where he taught for nearly 30 years. He has been teaching college and university courses since 1984 and currently teaches adjunct courses for San Diego tate University and is a criminal justice author. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in sociology with specializations in law and society and social psychology, MA at Bowling Green State University in sociology with a focus on social psychology and BS from Ball State University with a criminal justice major and double minors in the psychology of human growth and development and interpersonal relations. His scholarly research in areas such as bias crime, crisis intervention, elder abuse, social psychology, ethics and research methods and data analysis has been published in numerous journals and chapters as well as scholarly books. He has eight books to his credit, some in multiple editions, along with over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is a former president of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association (MCJA) and serves as a certified program reviewer for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). In addition to his academic work, he is a certified Medico-Legal Death Investigator. Before entering academia, he held a number of professional criminal justice positions including a prosecutor’s special investigator and a juvenile institutional corrections worker. Read More Read Less