JUST RELEASED:

Report on Surge in Homicides among Young Black Males

Press-release on homicide report

• Thirty years on the Northeastern University faculty
• The Lipman Family Chair holder (since 1999) and former dean (1991-1999)
• Joint appointment as Professor of Law, Policy and Society (since 2007)
• Author of sixteen books, including The Will to Kill (2007) and Extreme Killing (2005)
• Former columnist for the Boston Herald, writing three times monthly on crime and justice issues
• Regularly quoted in major newspapers and interviewed on national television
• Served as news analyst for NBC and consultant for FOX News
• Frequently lectures on college campuses and to community and corporate groups
• Fifteen appearances before the United States.Congress
• Served as a Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice
• Profiled in The New York Times (2006), USA Today (1995) , Scientific American (1996), and elsewhere
• Consultant on major investigations, including the Gainesville, FL serial killings of college students and the Capitol Hill (Seattle) mass murder at a rave after-party
• Winner of the 2007 Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship
• Winner in 2008 of the Klein Memorial Lectureship from Northeastern University