Paul
Leighton (Ph.D., American University 1995) is a Professor in the Dept
of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern Michigan University.
Dr Leighton's teaching and research interests include
a range of violence from rape, hate crimes, and terrorism to genocide. He also studies
white collar crime and criminal justice policy,
with expertise in prisons, private prisons, and capital punishment
(including televised
executions).
Along with Jeffrey Reiman, Leighton edited Criminal Justice Ethics
(Prentice-Hall 2001). He is the co-author of Class, Race, Gender and Crime
(2nd ed, Rowman & Littlefield). He co-authored Punishment for Sale:
Private Prisons, Big Businessa nd the Incarceration Binge (Rwoman and
Littlefield 2010) with Donna Selman. Dr Leighton has been the North American Editor of Critical
Criminology: An International Journal and The American Society of
Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology named him Critical
Criminologist of the Year in 2001.
Professor Leighton is a Diversity Fellow and a
Technology Fellow at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches Law
& Society; Domestic Violence & Sexual
Assault; Race, Gender & Crime; Corrections;
and the Sociology of Crime. He is webmaster of StopViolence.com,
a collection of information about violence prevention that has involved several
of his classes. He has developed a companion website for The
Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison, and worked with
Jeffrey Reiman on the last four editions of that book.
The Washington Post has favorably reviewed
some of Dr Leighton's research, and he has been quoted in the New York Times,
abcnews.com, plus numerous other local, national and foreign language
newspapers. He also has participated in a panel that aired on C-SPAN and
been a guest on several National Public Radio talk shows, including 'On
the Media' and 'Public Interest'. In
addition, he wrote several guest editorials for Newsday on televising
McVeigh's execution, Mumia
Abu-Jamal and whether
Sept 11 victims should be counted in the crime reports (all distributed over the LA Times - Washington Post
wire service).
