John Randolph Fuller has been a professor of criminology and sociology at the University of West Georgia for over 25 years. He brings both an applied and theoretical background to his scholarship. He served as a probation and parole officer for the Florida Probation and Parole Commission in Broward County, Florida, where he managed a caseload of more than 100 felons. He also served as a criminal justice planner for the Palm Beach Metropolitan Criminal Justice Planning Unit. In this capacity, he worked with every criminal justice agency in a three-county area writing and supervising grants for