James M. Byrne (PhD, Rutgers University, 1983) has over twenty-five years experience in the field of criminal justice and criminology. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell since 1984. He is the author of numerous monographs and journal articles on the subjects of offender change, offender reentry, risk classification, the link between prison culture and community culture, and the community context of crime and crime control. Professor Byrne has conducted a wide range of evaluations of criminal justice initiatives, including offender reentry, intensive probation supervision, drug testing in federal  pretrial systems, domestic violence control, drug treatment, day reporting centers, drunk driving interventions, absconder location/apprehension strategies, and most recently, the impact of the National Institute of Corrections’ Institutional Culture Change Initiative on prison violence. He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of corrections, who has served as a peer reviewer for NSF, NIJ, and NIDA. Professor Byrne is currently on the National Advisory Committee for the journal, Federal Probation, a publication of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. He has served as the Editor, Evidence-Based Reviews, for the journal, Victims and Offenders, and he has served as invited guest editor for recent special issues of the journals Federal Probation, Victims and Offenders, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. Dr. Byrne has co-authored or edited several critically acclaimed texts, including The Social Ecology of Crime (Springer Verlag, 1986), Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions (Sage, 1994), The New Technology of Crime, Law, and Social Control (Criminal Justice Press, 2007), and The Culture of Prison Violence (Allyn&Bacon,2008).