James A. Inciardi

(Ph.D. New York University )

James A. Inciardi, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies at the University of Delaware; Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Delaware; Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine; and a Distinguished Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a member of the Internal Advisory Committee of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

During the past few years, Dr. Inciardi has been: Chair of the NIDA/NIH Drug Abuse/AIDS Research Review Committee; a member of the U. S. Sentencing Commission Task Force on Drugs and Violence; a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in AIDS Research; and a member of the National Safety Council Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs.

Dr. Inciardi has research, clinical, field, and teaching experience in the areas of AIDS, substance abuse, and criminal justice. Before coming to Delaware, he was the director of the National Center for the Study of Acute Drug Reactions at the University of Miami School of Medicine; Vice President of the Washington, D.C.-based Resource Planning Corporation; and Associate Director of Research at the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission.

Finally, Dr. Inciardi has done extensive research and consulting work both nationally and internationally, and has published 52 books and almost 300 articles and chapters in the areas of substance abuse, criminology, criminal justice, history, folklore, social policy, AIDS, medicine, and law.

Representative Publications

Inciardi, James A, The War on Drugs III: The Continuing Saga of the Mysteries and Miseries of Intoxicaton, Addiction, Crime and Public Policy (Boston: Allyn and Bacon 2001).

Inciardi, James A., Hilary L. Surratt and Paulo R. Telles, Sex, Drugs and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
( Boulder: Westview Press, 2000).

Inciardi, James A., Criminal Justice, 7e (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2002).

II. Articles and Chapters

lnciardi, James A., “Alternative Perspectives on the Drug Policy Debate,” in James A. Inciardi (ed), The Drug Legalization Debate II (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999), pp. 9-54.

Inciardi, James A., “Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities: An Effective Modality for Treating Drug-Involved Offenders,” in Kenneth C. Haas and Geoffrey P. Alpert (eds.), The Dilemmas of Punishment (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1999), pp. 403-417.

Jnciardi. James A., Hilary L. Surratt, Paulo R. Telles, and Binh H. Pok, “Sex, Drugs, and the Culture of Travestismo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” International Journal of Transgenderism, 3 (1999) pp. 1-10.

Surratt, Hilary L. and James A. Inciardi, "Introducing the Female Condom to Drug Users in Brazil," Population Research and Policy Review, 18 (1999), pp. 169-181.

lnciardi, James A. and Anne E. Pottieger, “Drug Use and Street Crime in Miami: An Almost Twenty-Year Retrospective,” Substance Use and Misuse, 33(1998), pp. 1839-1870.