Jason Manning

I'm from Chincoteague Island, on Virginia's Eastern Shore. I went to school in Newport News and Charlottesville, and now I teach criminology at West Virginia University in Morgantown. I'm a husband and father of two.

For my academic work I mostly write about patterns of violence and moral conflict, using the "pure sociology" approach of theorist Donald Black. I think sociology should be scientific and lament that so little of it is.

Since having kids, I've started dabbling in children's book -- so far nonfiction books about cats and Eastern Shore watermen. Maybe I'll try my hand at stories next.