Scott Vollum, Ph.D.
2009-5/2012
Office:
James Madison University
Department of Justice Studies
Moody Hall 117, MSC 1205
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Home:
4219 Hilltop Rd.
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Home: 540-560-4968
Email: vollumsx@jmu.edu
Scott is a Professor of Justice Studies at James Madison University. He
holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University and a
master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Northern Iowa.
Scott teaches and researches in the areas of the death penalty, violence,
criminological theory, and sociology of law. Scott has written two books on
the death penalty. Most recently, he published Last Words and the Death
Penalty: Voices of the Condemned and Their Co-Victims. His previous book,
The Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues, Commentaries and Case Briefs
(co-authored with Rolando del Carmen, Kelly Cheeseman, Claudia San
Miguel and Durant Frantzen) was recently published in its second edition.
His research on the death penalty has also been published in several
journals including Justice Quarterly, Contemporary Justice Review, The
Prison Journal, and Violence & Victims.
Scott is originally from Minnesota but, prior to coming to Virginia, spent 6
years living in Huntsville, TX (where Texas’ executions are carried out). It
was here where his interest in the death penalty was cultivated. He now
lives in Harrisonburg, VA with his wife Jacki (a forensic clinical psychologist
who also studies the death penalty and works on capital cases) and three
dogs (Abby, Beauty, and Milo).
