Gregg L Barak

Gregg Barak is professor of criminology and criminal justice and former department head of sociology, anthropology, and criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Barak is the editor and/or author of some 20 books and three of these are award winning titles. Most recently, these books and awards include: Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist: Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America, 5th edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. (Co-authors P. Leighton & A. Cotton). Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. (Recipient of the Outstanding Book Award for 2017 from the ASC’s Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime). The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. Editor and Contributor. London & New York: Routledge. 2015. Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. (Recipient of the Outstanding Publication Award for 2012 from the White Collar Crime Research Consortium and the National Center for White Collar Crime, Washington, D.C.). Professor Barak has served as Chair of the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology, was the Critical Criminologist of the Year in 1999, and has served on more than a dozen editorial boards.