Charles H. Logan, Professional Biography
Charles H. Logan, Professional Biography
Dr. Charles H. Logan is a Professor and Associate Head of
Sociology at the University of Connecticut, where he has taught
since 1970. He has published widely on many criminal justice
issues and is a leading authority on privatization in corrections. He served as
a professional staff member on the President's Commission on Privatization, for
whose Report he wrote the
chapter on the contract operation of prisons. He has been a
Visiting Fellow at several agencies within the U.S. Department of
Justice, and has received support for his research from the
National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the National Institute of
Corrections.
Among Professor Logan's publications on privatization are:
Private Prisons: Cons and Pros (Oxford University Press,
1990); "The Development, Present Status, and Future Potential of
Correctional Privatization in America," (with Charles W. Thomas)
in Bowman, Hakim, and
Seidenstat, Privatizing Correctional Institutions (1993);
"Well Kept: Comparing Quality of Confinement in Private and
Public Prisons," in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1992); "
Comparing Costs of Public and Private Prisons,"
(with Bill W. McGriff) in NIJ Reports (1989); "Proprietary
Prisons" in Goodstein and MacKenzie, The American Prison
(1989); "The Propriety of Proprietary Prisons," in Federal
Probation (1987); "Competition in the Prison Business," in
The Freeman (1985); "Punish and Profit: The Emergence of
Private Enterprise Prisons," (with Sharla P. Rausch) in
Justice Quarterly (1985).
A member of the American Society of Criminology, Dr. Logan has
served as an Associate Editor of the journal Criminology
and as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency. He is a member of the American Bar
Association's Criminal Justice Section's Corrections and Sentencing Committee,
is a former member of the Board of Directors of
the Connecticut Bar Foundation, and serves on the advisory board
of the Yankee Institute. In addition to privatization, he has
published widely on many other criminal justice issues, including
the deterrent effects of arrest and imprisonment, evaluation of
correctional programs, the effects of parole, juvenile justice,
jury selection, and prison performance measures.