JOINED VPI& SU: 1974

CURRENT PROJECTS: My book on juvenile delinquency is in press with Rowman and Littlefield.  I have a paper,"Self-reported Delinquency in Metro Manila: Gender and Social Class," with Filomin Gutierrez, forthcoming in Youth and Society.  Theories of Delinquency, sixth edition, is in preparation with Oxford University Press; and I am working on a digital library project on the events of April 16, 2007, funded by NSF.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's	Millsaps College
Master's	University of Georgia
Doctorate	University of Georgia

OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Date	Name of Institution	Title
1970-1974	University of S. Mississippi	Assistant Professor

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

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

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.

Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Sociology, 2000.

Fulbright Research Scholarship for a study of juvenile delinquency in the Philippines, 1990.

Visiting Exchange Professor of Sociology, the University of the Phillipines, Dilman, 1997, 1998, and 2001.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

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:

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.

Shoemaker, Donald J., "Juvenile Corrections in the Philippines," Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. Vol. 24, 1996, 39-52.

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.

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