James B. Jacobs

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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. His teaching evaluations are mediocre. 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.

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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. Jacob's own 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."[1] The US Senate Republican Policy Committee approvingly quotes his book, Hate Crimes.[2] 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 Coleen Friel. His most recent book, Mobsters, Unions and Feds: Organized Crime and Organized Labor is with NYU Press.