Schutt, Russell K.
Russell K. Schutt, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Clinical Research Scientist I at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University. In addition to co-authoring The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century, and co-author of Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), Research Methods in Psychology (with Paul G. Nestor), The Practice of Research in Social Work and Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Ray Engel), and Research Methods in Education (with Joseph Check), all with SAGE Publications, as well as author of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness and Organization in a Changing Environment, coeditor of Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society and of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and coauthor of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as many book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, service preferences and satisfaction, organizations, and the sociology of law. His current and most recent research includes a $200,000 National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston, with collaborators at the Center for Survey Research (UMass Boston) and Northeastern University, a $3.8 million randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with collaborators at the Harvard Medical School, and a $1 million Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the VA. His past research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.
Bachman, Ronet D.
Ronet D. Bachman, PhD, worked as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.
Department of Justice, before going back to an academic career; she is now a professor in the
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is coauthor
of Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice and coeditor of Explaining Criminals
and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminal Theory. In addition, she is the author of Death and
Violence on the Reservation and coauthor of Stress, Culture, and Aggression; Murder American
Style; and Violence: The Enduring Problem, along with numerous articles and papers that examine
the epidemiology and etiology of violence, with particular emphasis on women, the elderly,
and minority populations as well as research examining desistance from crime. Her most recent
federally funded research was a mixed-methods study that examined the long-term desistance
trajectories of criminal justice involved drug-involved individuals who have been followed with
both quantitative and interview data for nearly thirty years. Her current state-funded research is
assessing the needs of violent crime victims, especially those whose voices are rarely heard such
as loved ones of homicide victims.
