James Byrne

Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, USA

James Byrne is Professor Emeritus, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, an affiliated faculty member at George Mason University’s Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE), and the Co-Director of the Global Community Corrections Initiative https://globcci.org/ . Dr. Byrne is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Victims and Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice. He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1977), and his Masters (1980) and Doctoral degree (1983) in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. 
Professor Byrne’s contribution to the field has been recognized by the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections and Sentencing: in 2011, he was the recipient of both the Distinguished Scholar Award and the Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award; and in 2021, he was awarded the Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of several books, monographs, journal articles, and research reports on a range of criminal and juvenile justice policy and program evaluation issues.
Most recently, he served as the project director for a NIDA and BJA-funded multi-site research project (2021-2024), Community participatory research on veterans in specialized programming. He also completed a systematic, evidence-based review of the research on the effectiveness of all United States Federal Bureau of Prisons programming for the Bureau of Prisons (Nov. 2023). Along with colleagues Ioan Durnescu, Faye Taxman, and Benjamin Mackey, he is the co-editor of the recently released Routledge Handbook of Global Community Corrections.