Matthew Barnett Robinson

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Matthew Barnett Robinson is a Criminologist at Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone, North Carolina.

After receiving his PhD from the Florida State University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, he accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at ASU in 1997, and is now a full professor. The department is now known as the Department of Government & Justice Studies.

Robinson has published twenty-eight books in the areas of criminal justice, crime mapping, criminological theory, corporate crime, media coverage of crime, the war on drugs, the death penalty, social justice, and race and crime in the United States.

Robinson has also published about 100 other pieces of research and made more than 200 presentations to professional conferences in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is Past President of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Association and the Southern Criminal Justice Association.

Robinson was recently ranked as one of the most influential criminologists in the world by the group Academic Influence. Robinson is ranked #19 by the organization.

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