Ron Kramer

Ron Kramer is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His latest book is Apocalyptic Crimes: Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished (Forthcoming, 2024). His previous books include: Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes (2020); State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (2006);  Crimes of the American Nuclear State: At Home and Abroad (1998); and the edited volume, State Crime in the Global Age (2010). Kramer is a recipient of the WMU Teaching Excellence Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, the Larry T. Reynolds Award for Outstanding Teaching of Sociology and the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociological Association. He hosts the award-winning cable television program Critical Issues, Alternative Views on the Public Media Network in Kalamazoo.