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Diana R. Gordon

Title: Professor Emerita
Campus Affiliation: Graduate Center/City College
Degrees/Diplomas: B.A. Mills College, M.A Radcliffe University, Harvard Law J.D.
Research Interests: Constitutional law, legal process, law and society, American politics, criminology, and public policy
Professor Gordon is an author and retired CUNY professor of political science and criminal justice. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School.  From 1984-2001, she served as a faculty member for the Department of Political Science at City College and the Graduate Center.  She taught undergraduate and graduate courses in constitutional law, legal process, law and society, American politics, criminology, and public policy.   In 1995, she was admitted to CUNY PhD. Faculty in criminal justice and political science. She served as the chair of department at City College, was well as serving as the chair of the Faculty Council, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  She was editor/writer, Justice Watch, newsletter on national justice policy.  She also served on the National Council on Crime and Delinquency as Vice President, Executive Vice President and President.  She served as Director, Citizens’ Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice.

 

Selected Publications

  • Transformation and Trouble: Crime, Justice and Participation in Democratic South Africa, University of Michigan Press (2006, cloth and paper).
  • The Return of the Dangerous Classes: Drug Prohibition and Policy Politics, W. W. Norton, (1994).
  • The Justice Juggernaut: Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens, Rutgers University Press, (1990 cloth) (1991 paper).
  • City Limits: Barriers to Change in Urban Government, Charterhouse Books (1973).
  • “Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: Problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile,” Contemporary Justice Review (2011).
  • “Public-Empowering Justice: Arguments from Effectiveness, Legitimacy and Democracy, and the Case of South Africa,” Punishment and Society (2007).
  • “Side by Side: Neoliberalism and Crime Control in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Social Justice (2001).
  • “Democratic Consolidation and Community Policing: Conflicting Imperatives in South Africa,” Policing and Society (2001).
  • “Drug Policy and the Dangerous Classes: An Historical Overview,” Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, (2001).
  • “Ashcroft Justice,” The Nation (2001).
  • “Lowering the Bar,” The American Prospect (2001).
  • “Une ‘tolérance zéro’ à usage politique,” Le Monde des Débats, juillet-aout (1999).
  • “Crime in the New South Africa,” The Nation, (1998).
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