Dr. Michael P. Jacobson
On The Web
Bio
Executive Director, CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance.
Prior to joining CUNY in May 2013 to help create the Institute for State and Local Governance, Michael Jacobson was president of the Vera Institute of Justice, serving from 2005 to 2013. He is the author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration (New York University Press 2005). Holding a Ph.D. in sociology, he has had an ongoing academic career coupled with more than 20 years of government service. From 1998 to 2005 he was a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He was New York City correction commissioner from 1995 to 1998, New York City probation commissioner from 1992 to 1996, and worked in the New York City Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1992 where he was a deputy budget director. In 2010 to 2012, Michael served as the chair of Altus, a global alliance working across continents and from a multicultural perspective to improve public safety and justice.
Appearances on CUNY TV
Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV
- When is Parole Effective and Appropriate?
April 9, 2018
City Talk
- The CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance
September 24, 2014
Criminal Justice Matters
CUNY Forum
CUNY TV Special
- Archive of Live Coverage of the 2018 Midterm Election
November 6, 2018
ISLG’s The Wonk
- Closing Rikers: Where Should New Jails Go?
October 6, 2017 - Can Rikers Island Be Closed? Pilot
June 30, 2017
