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The School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany Ranked # 2 in the country!


School of Criminal Justice
 

James Acker

Professor
J.D. (1976) Duke University
Ph.D. (1987) University at Albany, State University of New York

 

Dr. Acker's curriculum vitae

 
James Acker's interests include the integration of social science into law, and legal doctrine related to criminal justice, including criminal procedure, criminal law, juvenile justice, and capital punishment law. His principal scholarship has been in the areas of death penalty law and the judicial uses of social science research. He has co-authored a series of articles examining capital punishment legislation, which appears in the Criminal Law Bulletin. Other publications have appeared in the Law and Society Review, the Criminal Justice Review, Justice Quarterly, Law and Human Behavior, Law and Policy, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. He is co-author of Basic Legal Research for Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences, and Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective, and Criminal Law (Jones & Bartlett Publishers), and (with his daughter Elizabeth) Two Voices on the Legal Rights of America’s Youth (Wadsworth/Thomson Learning). He is co-editor of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (Carolina Academic Press).


 

School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Phone: (518) 442 - 5214 • Fax: (518) 442 - 5212

 

 


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