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James Barrett Jacobs (born 1947] is the Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts at New York University School of Law, where he has been a faculty member since 1982. He is a specialist in criminal law, criminal procedure and criminal justice. Jacobs has been named a 2012 Guggenheim fellow in recognition and support of his research on jurisprudential and policy issues related to criminal records. ==Background== Jacobs was born in 1947 in Mt. Vernon, New York. He attended public school in Mt. Vernon and then earned his BA (1969) at Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in sociology and minored in Russian. After completing basic training (U.S. Army Reserves), he spent most of 1970 in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as a Thomas J. Watson fellow. In the fall of 1970, Jacobs entered law school at the University of Chicago. During the summer of 1971 he served as a research assistant for the eminent criminal law professor Norval Morris. Professor Morris enjoyed a close relationship with the Illinois Director of Corrections, Peter Bensinger, and arranged for Jacobs to spend his 1972 summer doing research at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Jacobs’ research, focusing on how several large Chicago-based street gangs operated within the prison, resulted in "Street Gangs Behind Bars", published in the sociology journal ''Social Problems'' in 1973. "Gangs Behind Bars" was the first scholarly article to deal with gangs in prison and launched Jacobs' career as a criminologist. After graduating from University of Chicago School of Law in June 1973, Jacobs became a full-time PhD student in the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology. His sociology department adviser was the renowned sociologist Morris Janowitz. Under Janowitz’ guidance, the gangs in prison research grew into a dissertation (PhD 1975) and a book, ''Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society'',〔''Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society'', James B. Jacobs, University of Chicago Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0226389776〕 now regarded as a classic in American penology. In the fall, 1975, Jacobs joined Cornell University as assistant professor of law and sociology. He also met Jan Sweeney, whom he married in 1977. Their first child, Thomas, was born in 1978 and their second child, Sophi, was born in 1980. Jacobs received tenure in both departments in 1980, but subsequently switched his appointment full-time into the law school, where he taught criminal law. In the 1982-83 academic year, Jacobs served as a visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law. At the end of that academic year, he resigned from Cornell University to become professor of law at NYU and director of the NYU Center for Research in Crime and Justice. He has been a member of the NYU law faculty ever since, regularly teaching criminal law, criminal procedure and intermittently teaching federal criminal law, juvenile justice, state and local government and numerous specialty criminal justice area seminars. In 1995, Jacobs served as a Fulbright teaching fellow at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In 1998, then dean (and later NYU president) John Sexton awarded Jacobs the Warren E. Burger Chair of Constitutional Law and the Courts. With the support and encouragement of NYU alumnus, Alan Fortunoff, Jacobs launched the monthly Fortunoff Criminal Justice Colloquium in 1983. Fifteen years later, when Fortunoff died, the distinguished criminal defense lawyer, Jack Hoffinger, became the colloquium’s benefactor. The multidisciplinary Criminal Justice Colloquium meets each month during the academic year. It features a public lecture by a leading criminal justice or criminology scholar, followed by questions and discussion. It serves as a magnet for criminal justice professors, researchers, policymakers and practitioners from the metropolitan area and beyond. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James B. Jacobs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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