Jeremy Travis became the fourth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice on August 16, 2004. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Travis served four years as a senior fellow affiliated with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he launched a national research program on prisoner reentry into society and initiated research agendas on crime in a community context, sentencing, and international crime. While at the Urban Institute, Mr. Travis cochaired the Reentry Roundtable, a group of nationally prominent researchers and policymakers devoted to exploring the dimensions of prisoner reentry.
From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Travis was the director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). A key figure in the development of new approaches to prisoner reentry, he pioneered the concept of the reentry court, designed the Department of Justice's reentry partnership initiative, and created the federal reentry program in President Clinton's FY 2000 budget. Before his tenure at NIJ, Mr. Travis was deputy commissioner of legal matters at the New York City Police Department, chief counsel to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, and special advisor to the mayor of New York City.
Mr. Travis has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of criminal justice, including the American Society of Criminology's August Vollmer Award, the Gerhard O. W. Muller Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Margaret Mead Award from the International Community Corrections Association. He has taught courses on criminal justice, public policy, history, and law at Yale College, New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York Law School, and George Washington University.
But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, by Jeremy Travis, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 420 pages, ISBN 0-87766-750-0, $32.50).
