Cliff Roberson

Cliff Roberson

Cliff Roberson is the Academic Chair of the Graduate School of Criminal Justice, Kaplan University and editor in chief of the Professional Issues in Criminal Justice Journal (www.picj.org). He is also an Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at Washburn University and a retired professor of criminology, California State University, Fresno. His previous academic experience includes Professor of Criminology and Director of Justice Center, California State University, Fresno; Professor of Criminal Justice and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston, Victoria; Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University; and Director of Programs for the National College of District Attorneys, University of Houston.

His non-academic legal experience include Head, Military Law Branch, U.S. Marine Corps; Trial and Legal Services Supervisor, Office of State Counsel for Offenders, Texas Board of Criminal Justice; private legal practice; judge pro-tem in the California courts; trial and defense counsel and military judge as a marine judge advocate. Cliff is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Courts in California and Texas, Supreme Court of Texas and the Supreme Court of California.

Educational background includes: Ph.D. in Human Behavior, U.S. International University; L.L.M., in Criminal Law, Criminology, and Psychiatry, George Washington University; J.D. American University; B.A. in Political Science, University of Missouri; and one year of post-graduate study at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Cliff has authored or co-authored numerous books and texts. His recent texts on criminal justice subjects include:

* Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

* Roberson and Das, An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

* Identify Theft Investigations, (Kaplan Publishing Co. 2008)

* Birzer and Roberson, Police Operations (Pearson, 2008)

* Birzer and Roberson, Policing Today and Tomorrow (Prentice-Hall, 2006)

* Wallace and Roberson, Principles of Criminal Law, 4rd ed. (Allyn and Bacon, 2008)

* Criminal Procedure Today: Issues and Cases, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2000)

* Roberson, Wallace, and Stuckey, Procedures in the Justice System, 9th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2009)

* Roberson and Wallace, Introduction to Criminology (Copperhouse, 1998)

* Introduction to Criminal Justice, (Copperhouse, 1994; 2d ed. 1998, 3rd ed. 2000).

* Masters and Roberson, Inside Criminology (Prentice-Hall, 1996)

* Birzer and Roberson, Introduction to Private Security, (Pearson, 2008)