Professor Durant from Texas A&M University - San Antonio.

Durant Frantzen is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Department Chair at Texas A&M-San Antonio. He received his Bachelor

of Science in Criminal Justice (1995) and Master of Science in Criminal Justice (2000) from Texas State University, and his PhD in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University (2006). His research interests focus on topics such as domestic violence, community corrections, and specialty courts. Dr. Frantzen has been a consultant to Bexar County Commissioner's Court on 3 federal grants dealing with specialty court programs and offender treatment initiatives. He has published three books - The Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues, Commentaries, and Case Briefs (Anderson Publishing, 2014), Everyday Ethics for the Criminal Justice Professional (Carolina Academic Press, 2023), and Texas's Criminal Justice System (Carolina Academic Press, 2018). His research has also appeared in various journals such as Criminal Justice Review, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Violence and Victims, and Criminal Justice Studies.