Introduction to Criminal Justice

Callie Marie Rennison is a professor and associate dean of faculty affairs at the University of Colorado Denver and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses including Research Methods, Statistics, Murder in America, Crime and the Media, and Introduction to Criminal Justice. She earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in political science from the University of Houston, University Park. She received her B.S. in psychology, M.A. in sociology, and M.A. in political science from the same institution. Her research focuses on the nature, extent, and consequences of violent victimization with an emphasis on research methodology, quantitative analysis, and measurement, especially in regards to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Substantively, her research examines violence against women, violence against minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanics, crime data, and victim interaction with the criminal justice system. She recently served on a National Academies Committee examining domestic sex trafficking of minors in the United States and was a senior researcher at the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Mary Dodge is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School of Public Affairs. She earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in criminology, law and society from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her research and writing interests include gender and crime, white-collar crime, policing, prostitution, and courts. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Women & Criminal Justice, Contemporary Issues in Criminology, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, The Prison Journal, Police Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, and the Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. She and Gilbert Geis co-edited the book Lessons of Criminology and share authorship on the book Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal. Her most recent book, Women and White-Collar Crime, was published in 2009.