Jeffrey Ian Ross

Jeffrey Ian Ross is a scholar and criminologist who has been a professor at the University of Baltimore since 1998. His work covers policing, corrections, political crime and state crime, violence, street culture, graffiti and street art, and crime and justice in American Indian communities. He studied political science and psychology at the University of Toronto and earned his doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder, and he later served as a social science analyst at the National Institute of Justice. He is a former chair of the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice of the American Society of Criminology and a co-founder of the Convict Criminology approach, which draws on the experience of people who have been imprisoned. His books include The Globalization of Supermax Prisons and Introduction to Political Crime.