Autor: Jeffrey Ian Ross

Jeffrey Ian Ross is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs and a research fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. In 2003, he was awarded the University of Baltimore's Distinguished Chair in Research Award. From 1995-1998, Dr. Ross was a Social Science Analyst with the National Institute of Justice, a Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has researched, written, and lectured primarily on corrections, policing, political crime, violence,  global crime and criminal justice, and crime and justice in American Indian communities for over two decades. Ross' work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular media. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of several books, most recently The Globalization of Supermax Prisons.