David O. Friedrichs is professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at the University of Scranton. He is the author of Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society, Fourth edition (Wadsworth/Cengage, 2010).He was educated at New York University and taught for nine years at City University of New York (Staten Island). He has published some 60 articles and essays on topics as the legitimization of legal order, radical criminology, victimology, violence, narrative jurisprudence, postmodernism, and white collar crime.

His articles have been published in such journals as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice Review, International Journal of Comparative Society, Social Research, Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Legal Education, and Teaching Sociology, as well as in various books. He was editor of Legal Studies Forum between 1985 and 1989.

He has also been active with numerous professional associations and has chaired or served on committees of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Association for Humanist Sociology. He has been a visiting professor or guest lecturer at a number of colleges and Universities, including the University of South Africa and Ohio University (as Rufus Putnam Visiting Professor).

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