Thirty years on the Northeastern University faculty
The Lipman Family Chair holder (since 1999) and former dean (1991-1999)
Joint appointment as Professor of Law, Policy and Society (since 2007)
Author of sixteen books, including The Will to Kill (2007) and Extreme Killing (2005)
Former columnist for the Boston Herald, writing three times monthly on crime and justice issues
Regularly quoted in major newspapers and interviewed on national television
Served as news analyst for NBC and consultant for FOX News
Frequently lectures on college campuses and to community and corporate groups
Fifteen appearances before the United States.Congress
Served as a Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice
Profiled in The New York Times (2006), USA Today (1995) , Scientific American (1996), and elsewhere
Consultant on major investigations, including the Gainesville, FL serial killings of college students and the Capitol Hill (Seattle) mass murder at a rave after-party
Winner of the 2007 Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship
Winner in 2008 of the Klein Memorial Lectureship from Northeastern University