Jerome H. Skolnick is Professor Emeritus at the law school of UC Berkeley, and formerly co-director of NYU Law's Center for Research in Crime and Justice. Skolnick has authored and edited studies of families in transition, political institutions in crisis, police and crime, law and society, the regulation of gambling, and protest. His acclaimed book 'The Politics of Protest' was recently republished in its Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Skolnick has chaired the University of California's Center for the Study of Law and Society and served as president of the American Society of Criminology. His awards include Carnegie, Guggenheim and National Science Foundation fellowships as well as prizes for distinguished scholarship from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Western Society of Criminology. He is a graduate of the City College of New York and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale.
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