The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is pleased to announce that Dr. John Laub has just been named as Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. The word emeritus after an academic title shall designate a faculty member who has retired from full-time employment in the University of Maryland at College Park after meritorious service to the University in the areas of teaching, research, or service. 

John Laub is also a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Dr. Laub’s areas of research include crime and the life course, crime and public policy, and the history of criminology.

He has published widely, including Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, co-authored with Professor Sampson. This book won three major awards: The Albert J. Reiss, Jr, Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section; the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Also with Professor Sampson, he wrote Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, which analyzes longitudinal data from a long-term follow-up study of juvenile offenders from a classic study by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck. This book also won three major awards: The Albert J. Reiss, Jr, Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section; the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.

From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Laub served as the Director of the National Institute of Justice in the Office of Justice Programs in the Department of Justice. The position of Director is a presidential appointment with confirmation by the United States Senate.

Dr. Laub, along with Professor Sampson, was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2011 for their research on how and why offenders stop offending.

Congratulations to John Laub for this important recognition not only of his scholarship and teaching but also of his years of service to the department and the university.