Mark Pogrebin is professor in the department of criminal justice at the University of Colorado- Denver. His most recent book is About Criminals: A View of the Offender's World. Paul B. Stretesky is professor of sociology at Northumbria University, Newcastle. N. Prabha Unnithan is professor of sociology and director at the Center for the Study of Crime and Justice at Colorado State University. He is editor of Social Science Journal and coauthor of Currents of Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model of Suicide and Homicide.