Matt DeLisi is associate professor of sociology and Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies program at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado and has worked 5 years in a corrections institution. Professor DeLisi is the author of Career Criminals in Society, Criminal Justice: Balancing Crime Control and Due Process, and nearly 50 scholarly articles and chapters. Professor DeLisi's areas of research are criminal careers and career criminals, self-control theory, and inmate behavior.