Assessing the Quality of Doctoral Programs in Criminology in the United StatesFootnote*

* Preliminary findings from this study were presented at the Summit meetings of the Association of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program Directors, May, 2006, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. The authors would like to thank Emily Wright, Jodi Sleyo, Tamara Madensen, and the reviewers (especially Reviewer 2) for their helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this manuscript.

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