James P. Levine is the Dean of Research and Professor of Government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also currently serving as the Chairperson for the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration. He was Dean of Graduate Studies at John Jay from 1997 to 2006. From 1993 to 1999, he served as Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice of the City University of New York located at John Jay College. Dean Levine is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; he received a PhD in political science from Northwestern University, winning the Edward S. Corwin Award (from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in public law completed in 1968). Prior to coming to John Jay, he served on the faculties of Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Dean Levine has published two textbooks on criminal justice (co-authored with Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo): Criminal Justice: A Public Policy Approach (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1980) and Criminal Justice in America: Law in Action (John Wiley 1986). He is the co-author, with David Abbott, of Wrong Winner: The Coming Debacle in the Electoral College (Praeger 1991). Dean Levine's most recent book is Juries and Politics (Wadsworth 1992). He has published numerous articles on criminal justice institutions, criminal justice policy, and research methodology; his research has focused on jury behavior in recent years. Dean Levine's work has appeared in such journals as Judicature, Criminal Law Bulletin, Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies Forum, Law and Social Inquiry, Crime and Delinquency, Social Science Quarterly, Criminology, Public Policy, Law and Society Review, and Polity.