Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards:

              Nominated to Faculty Appreciation Dinner (2005) - University of Massachusetts-Boston

              Marvin B. Sussman Prize (2003)  - Sociology Department, Yale University. Award for best dissertation submitted in last two years

              Nominated to Faculty Appreciation Dinner (2003) - University of Massachusetts-Boston

              Exchange Scholar (1998-99) - Harvard University

              Yale Dissertation Fellowship (1997-98)

              Henry Hart Rice Fellowship (1996-97)

              Jacob K. Javits Fellow (1992-1996) - U.S. Department of Education

              University Scholar (1988-1991) - The Pennsylvania State University

Publications:

Articles, Chapters, and Research Monographs:

              Willis, James J. "The Origins of Convict Transportation to Australia: Penal Decision-Making and the Limits to State Authority." Work in Progress.

             Willis, James J.,  S.D. Mastrofski, and D. Weisburd. Forthcoming. "Making Sense of COMPSTAT: A Theory-Based Analysis of Organizational Change in Three Police Departments." Law and Society Review.                   

             Weisburd, D., S.D. Mastrofski, J.J. Willis, and R. Greenspan. Forthcoming. "Changing Everything So That Everything Can Stay the Same: COMPSTAT and American Policing," in David Weisburd and Anthony Braga, eds., Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.             

             Willis, James J., S.D. Mastrofski, and D. Weisburd. 2006. "The Myth that COMPSTAT Reduces Crime and Transforms Police Organizations," Pp. 111-119 in Robert Bohm and Jeffrey Walker, eds., Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.     

             Willis, James J. 2005.  "Transportation versus Imprisonment in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain: Penal Power, Liberty, and the State." Law and Society Review, vol.59, no.1: 171-210.

             Willis, James J., S. Mastrofski, and D. Weisburd. 2004.  "Compstat and Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Challenges and Opportunities for Change." Justice Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3: 463-96.

             Willis, James J., S. Mastrofski, and D. Weisburd. 2004. Compstat in Practice: An In-Depth Analysis of Three Cities. Washington DC: The Police Foundation. Available at: http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/compstatinpractice.pdf

             Willis, James J., S. Mastrofski, D. Weisburd, and R. Greenspan. 2004. Compstat and Organizational Change in the Lowell Police Department: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington DC: The Police Foundation. Also available at http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/compstat.pdf

             Weisburd, D., S. Mastrofski, A. McNally, R. Greenspan, and J.J. Willis. 2003. "Reforming to Preserve: Compstat and Strategic Problem  Solving in American Policing.” Criminology and Public Policy, vol. 2, no. 3: 421-456. Reprinted in Tim Newburn (ed.), Policing: Key Readings. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.

             Willis, James J. and S. Silbey. 2002. "Self, Surveillance, and Society" The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3: 439-445. Also available at http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/willis-silbey.html

             Mastrofski, S., J. J. Willis, and J. Snipes. 2002. "Styles of Patrol in a Community Policing Context,"  Pp. 81-111 in M. Morash  and J. K. Ford (eds.), The Move to Community Policing: Making Change Happen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

             Willis, James J. 2002. "Police: Community Policing." Pp. 1060-1068 in J. Dressler (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: Macmillan Press.

Research Reports:

             Weisburd, D., S. Mastrofski, R. Greenspan, and J. Willis. 2004. “The Growth of Compstat in American Policing.” Research-in-Brief. Washington DC: Police Foundation. Also available at http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/growthofcompstat.pdf            

             Willis, James J, S. Mastrofski, and D. Weisburd. 2003. “Compstat and Organizational Change: Intensive Site Visits Report.” Final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice. 140 pp. 

             Willis, James J., S. Mastrofski, D. Weisburd, and R. Greenspan. 2003. “Compstat and Organizational Change in a Small Police Department: Challenges and Opportunities.” Final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice. 138 pp.

             Mastrofski, S., J. J. Willis, and J. Snipes. 1993. "Community Policing: The Street Officer's View." Interim Report to the National Institute of Justice and the Richmond Police Department.

Book Reviews:

             Willis, J. 2005. Reviews of Peter K. Manning, Policing Contingencies, and Jeannine Bell, Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime. Social Forces, vol. 84, no. 2: 1315-17.      

             Willis, J. March 2002. Review of Ralph B. Taylor, Breaking Away from Broken Windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline. In Contemporary Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2: 220-1.

             Willis, J. December 2001. Review of Andrew Skotnicki, Religion and the Development of the American Penal System. In Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 40, no. 4: 780-81.

              Willis, J. November/December 1993. Review of Jay S. Albanese, Dealing with Delinquency: The Future of Juvenile Justice. In ACJS Today, vol. 12, issue 3: 21-22.

Invited Talks:

“Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing and Punishment: An Assessment of the American Experience.” Debates over Public Life: An Examination of the American Experience. The J.F.K. Library and American Studies Summer Institute, UMass-Boston. Boston, July 2005.

“The Relationship Between COMPSTAT and Community Policing: A Case of Having Your Cake and Eating it, Too.” Co-presented with Stephen Mastrofski. National Conference on Community Policing for America’s Future. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Washington, DC,  June 2004.

“Compstat Implementation: A View from the Field.” Co-presented with Stephen Mastrofski. Excellence in Policing Forum. The Heritage Foundation. Washington, DC, May 2004.

“Reengineering the Bureaucracy: COMPSTAT, Weber, and Police Organization.” Sociology Department Colloquium Series. University of New Hampshire, April 2004.

“Punishment: An Organizational and Cultural Analysis.” Sussman Dissertation Prize. Senior Research Scholars in Sociology, Yale University, April 2003.

Presentations (Sole presenter unless specified):

“Radical Reform or Blue Smoke and Mirrors: COMPSTAT and Organizational Change in Three Police Departments,” with Stephen Mastrofski and David Weisburd. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 2005.

“Reengineering the Police Organization: COMPSTAT, Culture, and Change,” with Stephen Mastrofski and David Weisburd. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, November 2004.

“COMPSTAT and Organizational Change in Three Police Departments: A Comparative Analysis.” with Stephen Mastrofski and David Weisburd. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November 2003.

“The Paradoxes of Organizational Change: A Case Study of Compstat in a Small American Police Department.” Presented at the Junior Faculty Colloquium Series at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, March 2003.

“Compstat and Organizational Change in a Small Police Department,” with David Weisburd, Stephen Mastrofski and Rosann Greenspan. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002.

“Transformations in Punishment in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain: Penal Power, Liberty, and the State (working title).” Paper Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000.

“The Transport of British Convicts to the Colonies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 1998.

“Penal Administration and Punishment in Britain.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 1998.

“Styles of Patrol in a Community Policing Context.” Presented by Stephen Mastrofski with Jeffrey Snipes at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, 1994.

“Ethnographic Research: Experiences in the Field.” Presented at Works-in-Progress, Yale Sociology Department Conference, New Haven, April 1993.

“Police Officer Response to the Preferred Arrest Policy in Domestic Violence Cases in State College.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh, March 1992.

 “Police Responses to Domestic Violence.” Undergraduate honors thesis presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Caltech, March 1991.

Grants:

External

Office of Community Policing Oriented Services (COPS), Department of Justice (6/05-8/06) - Principal Investigator: $281,030 (Stephen D. Mastrofski, Co-P.I.)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (6/04-8/04) - Principal Investigator: $5000

National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (3/97-3/98) - Kai Erikson, Principal Investigator: $7500

Internal

University of Massachusetts Boston (2005-6) - Principal Investigator, Joseph P. Healey Grant to support research project, "Compstat and Organizational Reform: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis:" $3350

University of Massachusetts Boston (2002-3) - Principal Investigator, Faculty Scholarship Support Grant to assist with writing of “Compstat and Organizational Change: Intensive Site Visits Report:” $2650

Yale Center for International and Area Studies - Henry Hart Rice Fellowship for Dissertation Research: British Library and Public Records Office, London, England (8/1996-2/97): $7500

 John F. Enders Research Grant - Yale University travel fellowship: London, England (1996): $750

Professional Service:

Peer Review Activity

Book Reviewer: ACJS Today, Contemporary Sociology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Forces
Manuscript Reviewer: Law and Society Review, Social Forces, Journal of Police and Society, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, International Criminal Justice Review

Memberships   

American Society of Criminology

American Sociological Association

ASA Section Membership: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Law

Law and Society Association