Alison Feigh Author

Mary Clifford has her Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. A founding member of the Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative on the SCSU campus, she has been engaged in researching and writing about various justice issues including approximately 15 years of active involvement in studying sexual deviance, sex crimes and sex offenders. Editor of the first comprehensive text on environmental crime, titled Environmental Crime: Law, Policy and Social Responsibility (Aspen, 1998), and co-editor of the second edition (Jones and Bartlett, 2011), Dr. Clifford is also the Pearson Prentice Hall (2004) author of Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials. Alison Feigh, MS, is the Director of Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, a program of Zero Abuse Project. In her role as a subject matter expert on child and teen safety, she works with students, parents, youth workers, faith leaders, law enforcement and the media to help prevent childhood abuse and abductions. Feigh’s work also includes writing curriculum for youth serving organizations, training professionals about online challenges kids face and advocating for families of the missing. Feigh has been working in the abuse prevention field for more than 18 years. She is especially drawn to prevention in faith-based communities and youth serving organizations, collaborating with teens regarding technology challenges and helping empower parents to talk with their kids about personal and online safety.