She received her PhD from Sam Houston State University. Her current research interests include female offenders, prison deviance, correctional officer stress and job satisfaction, institutional corrections, the death penalty, ethics, and sexually deviant behavior. Dr. Cheeseman Dial has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, American Journal of Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior. She has also coau-thored a book on the death penalty.