Ronet D. Bachman
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.
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