Featured Speakers
"Media and the Construction of Race and Crime Statistics"
Shaun Gabbidon,
Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice
School of Public Affairs
Penn State University Harrisburg
Dr. Gabbidon is a
Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public
Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow
at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American
Research, and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include
race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice
pedagogy. The author of more than 100 scholarly publications including
50 peer-reviewed articles, his most recent books include Race,
Ethnicity, Crime and Justice: An International Dilemma (2009) and
Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2nd edition)
(2010).He is the co-author of the recently
published book, A Theory of African American Offending (2011). Professor Gabbidon currently serves as the editor of the new SAGE journal, Race
and Justice: An International Journal.
His 2007 book, W.E.B.
DuBois on Crime and Justice was heralded as the first volume to
discern the contribution to that scholar’s work to the criminal justice
field. Dr. Joseph R. Feagin, a leading scholar on race and ethnicity at
Texas A&M University, wrote, “Shaun Gabbidon’s book on W.E.B. DuBois and
crime provides an original and innovative window into this little known
area of DuBois’s research and thought. Gabbidon provides much evidence,
drawing on original sources, to back up his contention that DuBois did
important research on and theorizing about U.S. crime, especially as it
affected Black Americans. He shows how in many ways DuBois anticipated
later theories of crime in Western criminology.”
Honored numerous times
for his work, Gabbidon has earned the Coramae R. Mann Distinguished
Service Award presented by the American Society of Criminology and the
W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Western Society of Criminology. He was also
named distinguished scholar alumni by Indiana University of Pennsylvania
on the 20th anniversary of its Ph.D. program in Criminology. In 2007,
Penn State Harrisburg honored him with its Excellence in Research and
Scholarly Activity Award.