Rena C. Zito is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Elon University, where she also serves as the coordinator of the Criminal Justice Studies program. Her research on families and delinquency, criminological theory, and intimate partner violence appears in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Youth & Society, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Sociological Focus, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Perspectives, and in edited volumes including Preventing Crime and Violence, The Handbook on Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice, and The Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology. In addition, she served as the criminology area editor for the American Sociological Association's Teaching Resources and Innovations Library in Sociology (TRAILS) for six years and is a contributing author on two active-learning undergraduate textbooks published by SAGE, Sociology in Action and Social Problems in Action.
