Donald J. Shoemaker
Professor
Joined Virginia Tech: 1974
| Bachelor's | Millsaps College |
| Master's | University of Georgia |
| Doctorate | University of Georgia |
CURRENT PROJECTS:
I am working on a digital library project on the events of April 16, 2007, funded by NSF.
CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:
Juvenile Delinquency
Criminology
Deviant Behavior
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Theories of Delinquency
International Studies of Delinquency
Juvenile and Criminal Justice Processing
Philippine Studies
RECENT AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 2007; 2000.
Consultant and Member, Infrastructure Expert Team (IET) for the Department of Homeland Security, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Oak Ridge, TN, March, 2004-2007. Changed to ORAU National Security Expert Team (ONSET) in January, 2008.
Member, Attorney General's Anti-Gang Taskforce, 2003-2006
Evaluator, Adult and Juvenile Drug Courts in Virginia, 1999-2002
Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Leadership of Service-Learning Students, Service-Learning Center, Virginia Tech, 2001.
Visiting Exchange Professor of Sociology, the University of the Phillipines, Dilman, 1997, 1998, and 2001.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Shoemaker, D. J., Juvenile Delinquency, forthcoming (2009), Rowman and Littlefield.
Shoemaker, D. J. and T. W. Wolfe, Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2005, ABC-CLIO press.
Shoemaker, D. J. Theories of Delinquency. Oxford University Press, Fifth edition, 2005.
Articles and Chapters
Fox, E.A., C. Andrews, W. Fan, J. Jiao, A. Kassahun, S. Lu, Y. Ma, C. North, N. Ramakrishnan, A. Scarpa, B.H. Friedman, S.D. Sheetz, D. Shoemaker, V. Srinivasan, S. Yang, and L. Boutwell, “A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech." Traumatology Vol. 14 (1), 2008:64-84.
Gutierrez, Filomin C. and Donald J. Shoemaker, ""Self-Reported Delinquency of High School Students in Metro Manila: Gender and Social Class," Youth & Society, Vol. 40:55-85, 2008.
Shoemaker, D.J., "Juvenile Justice in the Philippines: An Overview." Pp. 83-97 in Paul C. Friday and Xin Ren, editors, Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Systems in the Non-western World. Monsey. New York: Criminal Justice Press, 2006.
Shoemaker, D.J. and D. McDonald, “An Evaluation of the Drug Court of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia: A Response to the War on Drugs.” Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 39, Number 5, 2003: 569-583.
Bryant, C.D. and D.J. Shoemaker, “Dead Zoo Chic: Some Conceptual Notes on Taxidermy in American Social Life,” (revised from an earlier article). Pp. 1019-1026 in Clifton D. Bryant (ed.), Handbook of Death & Dying, Volume Two. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2003.
Timothy W. Wolfe and Donald J. Shoemaker, "Actor, Situation, Context: A Framework for Delinquency Theory Integration," American Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 24, 1999: 117-138.
GRANTS
Co-P.I., “CTRNET: Integrated Digital Library Support for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery.” Funded by the National Science Foundation, $500,000, August 15, 2009-August 14, 2012.
Co-P.I., "DL-VT416: A Digital Library Testbed for Research Related to 4/16/07 at Virginia Tech." Funded by the National Science Foundation, $199,993, May 1, 2007-April 30, 2008.