The Justice System and the Family

Sheila Royo Maxwell is a criminologist at the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Maxwell is a Fulbright Scholar Awardee and studies offending behaviours and attitudes towards law and sanctioning across ethnic, cultural and social-structural milieus.

Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist and demographer at The State University of New York (Buffalo). A Fulbright Scholar Award recipient, he has served as chair of the Children and Youth research section of the ASA, vice-president of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association, and received the Distinguished Career Service Award from the ASA.