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Dr. Steven Lab leads criminal justice association BOWLING GREEN, O. -- A Bowling Green State University administrator and crime prevention expert has assumed the presidency
of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
Dr. Steven Lab, chair of the Department of Human Services and a professor and director of the Criminal Justice Program, will
hold the position until March 2004. Lab previously served as first and second vice president of the organization and was a
trustee-at-large on the ACJS Executive Board from 1995-98.
The ACJS is an international organization established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field
of criminal justice. Its members work to meet the organization's objectives of advancing the knowledge base in the fields
of criminal justice education, research and policy analysis.
The organization sponsors an annual meeting each March featuring more than 250 panels devoted to a wide range of criminal
justice topics. The meeting typically attracts 1,800-2,000 members. The ACJS membership is made up primarily of academics,
although there are also a large number of practitioners in the organization. While most of the organization's nearly 3,000
members are from North America, others come Europe, Asia and Australia.
The ACJS publishes two academic journals, Justice Quarterly, the leading journal in the field of criminal justice, and the
Journal of Criminal Justice Education, which is devoted to the pedagogy of criminal justice. In addition, ACJS publishes a
guide to graduate programs in criminal justice.
Lab, a recognized expert in the area of crime prevention, has been on the BGSU faculty since 1987. A past editor of the Journal
of Crime and Justice, he is the author or co-author of four books and more than three dozen articles and book chapters, and
the editor of two more books.
He consults with the National Institute of Justice of the U.S. Department of Justice on crime prevention, victimology and
juvenile justice issues, and with the Ohio Attorney General's Ohio Against Gangs project.
(Posted March 19, 2003 )
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