Mark S. Davis is a social scientist whose interests include self- and other-directed violence, research misconduct, criminological theory and criminal justice policy. His scholarship has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Research on Adolescence, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Science and Engineering Ethics. He is the author of The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition and The Role of State Agencies in Translational Criminology: Connecting Research to Policy, and coauthor (with Bonnie Berry) of Routledge’s Scholarly Crimes and Misdemeanors: Violations of Fairness and Trust in the Academic World. Mark holds a PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University.