Ronet D. Bachman, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the Universityof Delaware. She is coauthor of The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice 6th ed. (with RussellSchutt), coauthor of Violence: The Enduring Problem and Murder American Style (with Alexander Alvarez), coeditor ofExplaining Crime and Criminology: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory (with Raymond Paternoster), and authorof Death and Violence on the Reservation: Homicide, Suicide and Family Violence in Contemporary American IndianCommunities, as well as author/coauthor