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James Gilligan, M.D.
Dr. James Gilligan, renowned expert on violence and violence prevention, is currently a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and soon will be directing a research center at the University devoted to the study and prevention of violence. He is also Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at New York University. He is a former member of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. James Gilligan has also served as President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, and earlier in his career, was Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts prison system.
James Gilligan's innovative and effective designs for violence prevention program are praised by the World Health Organization, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Polish Ministry of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the U.S. Department of Justice, and by many other noted organizations and governments worldwide. A violence prevention program in the San Francisco jails that he helped design and evaluate won the 2004 "Innovations in Governance" Award of the Ash Foundation, in a nationwide competition administered by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In April 2003, Physicians for Social Responsibility honored James Gilligan with its "2003 Achievement Award." He is the author of Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes (1996); Violence in California Prisons: A Proposal for Research into Patterns and Cures (2000); and Preventing Violence (2001).
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