| Institution: | Dr. James Austin is the Director of the Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the GWU, he was the Executive Vice President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency where he was employed for 20 years. He began his career in corrections in 1970 when he was employed by the Illinois Department of Corrections as a correctional sociologist at the Joliet and Stateville prisons. He has thirty years of experience in criminal justice planning and research. He serves, or has recently served, as director for several U.S. Department of Justice funded research and evaluation programs. Most recently he has assisted the Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland and Kentucky parole boards in evaluating and/or developing their parole guideline systems. Dr. Austin has authored numerous publications, was named by the American Correctional Association as its 1991 recipient of the Peter P. Lejin's Research Award, and received the Western Society of Criminology Paul Tappin award for outstanding contributions in the field of criminology. He has co-authored three books. He is also a member of the American Society of Criminology National Policy Committee |
