UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 37, Page 4
July 20, 1995
James Inciardi named American Society of Criminology fellow

     James Inciardi, professor of criminal justice and director of the
University's Center for Drug and Alcohol Abuse since it was established in
1991, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Criminology for
his "distinct scholarly contributions" to the field.
     Only four fellows are elected each year, and the prestigious award
will be given at the society's annual meeting in November in Boston.
     Former director of the University's Criminal Justice Program, Inciardi
served as director of the National Center for the Study of Acute Drug
Reactions at the University of Miami, as vice president of the Resource
Planning Corp. in Washington, D.C., and as associate director of research
for the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission before coming
to Delaware.
     Inciardi has more 30 years of experience in the drug field, has done
extensive consulting work and has published more than 180 articles,
chapters, books and monographs in the areas of substance abuse,
criminology, criminal justice, history, folklore, social policy, AIDS,
medicine and law.
     He also has served as editor and on editorial boards for several
publications in his field.
     Currently, Inciardi chairs the AIDS Research Review Committee of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse and also the Resource Panel on Drug Abuse
Treatment for Criminal Justice Clients, Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment-both associated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
     He is a member of the Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Issues in AIDS Research of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of
Medicine; the United States Sentencing Commission Task Force on
Drugs/Violence; AIDS/Substance Abuse Research Planning Committee of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH); and the Committee on Alcohol and
Other Drugs of the National Safety Council.
     Inciardi also has an appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and
Public Health at the University of Miami School of Medicine and is a
distinguished professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
                                                        -Sue Swyers Moncure