James F. Short, Jr.

A past-president of the American Society of Criminology, Jim Short is an ASC Fellow and recipient of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award. He has served as a member of the National Research Council/National Academy of Science Committee on Law and Justice, and its Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violence, and the Case Studies of School Violence Committee of the Institute of Medicine. He was Co-Director of Research (with Marvin Wolfgang) for the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and has been a member of numerous advisory boards related to problems of crime, justice, and risk analysis. He has published widely in sociology, criminology, and risk analysis and contributed to numerous encyclopedias. His books include Suicide and Homicide (with A.F. Henry), Group Process and Gang Delinquency (with F. L. Strodtbeck), Delinquency and Society, and Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime; and, as editor and contributor, The Social Fabric: Dimensions and Issues, and Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risk (with Lee Clarke). A former Editor of the American Sociological Review, and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Sociology, he is also past president of the Pacific and American Sociological Associations. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, the Rockefeller Center (Bellagio), and Oxford University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He has received NIMH and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the Bruce Smith Award (Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences), the 1990 "Award for Distinguished Contribution" of the American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology, and in 2000, the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology.