ROBERT M. BOHM is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He has also been a faculty member in the Departments of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1989–1995) and at Jacksonville State University in Alabama (1979–1989). In 1973–1974, he worked for the Jackson County Department of Corrections in Kansas City, Missouri, first as a corrections officer and later as an instructor/counselor in the Model Inmate Employment Program, a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration–sponsored work-release project. He received his PhD in Criminology from Florida State University in 1980.
Professor Bohm has published numerous book chapters, journal articles, encyclopedia articles, and book reviews in the areas of criminal justice and criminology. He is the author of Deathquest: An Introduction to the Theory and ¬Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States, 4th ed. (Anderson/Elsevier, 2012), Ultimate Sanction: Understanding the Death Penalty Through Its Many Voices and Many Sides (Kaplan, 2010), and A Concise Introduction to Criminal Justice (McGraw-Hill, 2008). He is co-author (with Keith N. Haley) of Introduction to Criminal Justice, 7th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2012) and (with Brenda L. Vogel) A Primer on Crime and Delinquency Theory, 3rd ed. (Wadsworth, 2011). He is also the editor of The Death Penalty in America: Current Research (Anderson, 1991) and The Death Penalty Today (CRC Press, 2008). He is co-editor (with James R. Acker and Charles S. Lanier) of America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Sanction, 2nd ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2003) and (with Jeffery T. Walker) Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2006). Professor Bohm has been active in the American Society of Criminology, the Southern Criminal Justice Association, and especially the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, having served in the latter organization as Trustee-at-Large (1987–90), Second Vice-¬President (1990–91), First Vice-President (1991–92), and President (1992–93). In 1989, the Southern Criminal Justice Association selected him as the Outstanding Educator of the Year. In 1999, he became a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; in 2001, he was presented with the Founder’s Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and, in 2008, he received the Bruce Smith Sr. Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
