Diana Gordon was trained as a lawyer (J.D., Harvard Law School, 1964) but soon left private practice to work for government (the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1966; City of New York, 1967-1971) and non-profit organizations (Citizens’ Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice, 1973-1978; National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1978-1983). After resigning as President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency she began teaching political science at The City College of New York, first as a visiting professor, then as a tenure-track Associate Professor, with an interest in the politics of crime and criminal justice. In that capacity she wrote two books on American criminal justice policy—The Justice Juggernaut (Rutgers U.P., 1990) and The Return of the Dangerous Classes (Norton, 1994)—and several peer-reviewed articles, as well as journalism for publications like The Nation and The New York Times. She is also a member of the CUNY doctoral faculties of political science and criminal justice. On retirement from City College in 2001 she came to John Jay/The Graduate Center as Senior Research Scholar in the Ph.D. program in criminal justice and continues to teach courses in comparative criminal justice and criminal justice policy and practice; in the spring semester 2009 she taught a new course entitled “Immigration, Crime, and Criminal Justice.” Her most recent book is Transformation and Trouble: Crime, Justice, and Participation in Democratic South Africa (Michigan U.P., 2006). She is the recipient of a Mellon Emeritus Fellowship, doing research on community dispute resolution projects in two democratizing countries, South Africa and Chile. Her website providing information on justice projects that include citizen participation in democratizing countries is at http://www.demjustdata.org/. Current work includes an ethnographic study of victimization of undocumented immigrants on the East End of Long Island.
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