James Acker
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Criminal Justice
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
James R. Acker has extensive scholarship in areas of death penalty law and the judicial uses of social science research, one of the most bitterly disputed issues facing legislators and appellate courts across the U.S. He has co-authored a series of articles examining capital punishment legislation, which appeared in the Criminal Law Bulletin, and co-authored, with Robert M. Bohm and Charles S. Lanier, America's Experiment With Capital Punishment (Carolina Academic Press, 1998). Acker, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in UAlbany's School of Criminal Justice, helped establish in 2005 the National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA), a national repository of archival material devoted solely to the death penalty. It is located at the University's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives.
Research Interest
The death penalty; history of capital punishment in the United States and New York
Publications
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Acker, James R., and Ryan Champagne. "The Execution of Wallace Wilkerson: Precedent and Portent." Criminal Justice Review (2017): 0734016817702193.
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Acker, James R. "Taking stock of innocence: Movements, mountains, and wrongful convictions." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 33.1 (2017): 8-25.
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Acker, James R. "The flipside injustice of wrongful convictions: When the guilty go free." Alb. L. Rev. 76 (2012): 1629.
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Acker, James R., and Catherine L. Bonventre. "Protecting the innocent in New York: Moving beyond changing only their names." Alb. L. Rev. 73 (2009): 1245.
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Norris RJ, Bonventre CL, Redlich AD, Acker JR. Than That One Innocent Suffer: Evaluating State Safeguards Against Wrongful Convictions. Alb. L. Rev.. 2010;74:1301.
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Acker, James R. "Class acts: Outstanding college teachers and the difference they make." Criminal Justice Review 28.2 (2003): 215-231.
