Ashley G. Blackburn is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston-Downtown. She received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Dr. Blackburn has been teaching corrections-related courses and conducting corrections-related research for more than a decade. She has published in such journals as Prison Journal, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Journal of Criminal Justice, Women and Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior, and co-edited a text entitled Prisons: Today and Tomorrow.
Lori Brusman Lovins is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston-Downtown. She received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to her current academic position, she worked as the director of clinical services for the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department, the fourth-largest probation department in the country. Dr. Lovins has published in such journals as Justice Quarterly, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Federal Probation, and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.