James B. Jacobs

James B. Jacobs

James B. Jacobs (born April 251947) is an American legal scholar and law professor at New York University School of Law.

James Jacobs holds a JD ('73) and PhD in Sociology ('75) from the University of Chicago. In 1982, after seven years' as a faculty member at Cornell Law School, Professor Jacobs was recruited to New York University School of Law, where he was appointed Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He regularly teaches one of the first year required sections of criminal law and upper year electives in criminal procedure, federal criminal law and juvenile justice. He also teaches specialized seminars on such subjects as privatization of criminal justice, the jurisprudence of criminal records, labor racketeering, gun control, sentencing, corruption control, prisoners' rights, victims and criminal procedure, and the war on drugs.

Publications

Jacobs has published fourteen books and more than 100 articles on such topics as prisons and imprisonment, drunk driving, corruption and its control, hate crime, drug testing, regulation of weaponry, and organized crime. Jacobs' New York University (NYU) website states that his doctoral dissertation, "Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society" (1977), is "a classic in penology" and "is still assigned in classrooms around the country." [http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=cv.main&personID=20016] The US Senate Republican Policy Committee approvingly quotes his book, "Hate Crimes". [http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/cr080399.htm] He co-authored "Busting the Mob: U.S. v. Cosa Nostra" (1994) with law students Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington III; it includes sharp criticism of the International Longshoreman's Association union. He co-authored "Gotham Unbound: How NYC Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime" (1998) with law students Robert Raddick and Colleen Friel. His most recent book, "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: Organized Crime and Organized Labor" is with NYU Press.

External links

* [http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=bio.main&personID=20016 New York University School of Law academic profile and photograph]
* [http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/CVFiles/CURVITAE.pdf Comprehensive list of references and publications]


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