Matthew G. Yeager

Matthew G. Yeager obtained his Bachelor's in Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972 and his Master's degree at the State University of New York at Albany in 1975. He received his doctorate in Sociology from Carleton University, Canada, in 2006. He has published over 50 articles and studies in theoretical and applied criminology, and in addition, is a practicing clinical criminologist in sentencing alternatives and parole planning. He is the author and editor of the...See more

Matthew G. Yeager obtained his Bachelor's in Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972 and his Master's degree at the State University of New York at Albany in 1975. He received his doctorate in Sociology from Carleton University, Canada, in 2006. He has published over 50 articles and studies in theoretical and applied criminology, and in addition, is a practicing clinical criminologist in sentencing alternatives and parole planning. He is the author and editor of the books Illegal Enterprise: The Work of Historian Mark Haller (2013); Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Convict Criminologist (2016); and Reforming American Prisons: A Memoir of My Time at Sing Sing Prison by Warden Thomas Mott Osborne (2018). He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College, part of Western University, Canada. See less