Biographical sketch of Professor Graeme R. Newman
Dr. Graeme R. Newman is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, where he has taught for 25 years. He is the 1999 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award of the State University of New York. His students have won awards for their dissertations, and have published widely in the field. Many of his students have established successful careers in both academic and professional fields of criminal justice. Professor Newman's primary research interests are the history and sociology of punishment, popular media and criminal justice, and comparative criminal justice. He has provided consultation to the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the United Nations since 1971, particularly in regard to the periodic Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, various projects on violence, and the relationship between criminal justice and development. His most significant involvement for the United Nations was to pioneer the establishment of the electronic United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network, which was the first criminal justice presence on the Internet. Professor Newman has written widely in criminal justice.