Lucien X. Lombardo, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University from 1977 until he retired in 2015. Though he retired, he still teaches on-line courses: “Understanding Violence” and “Violence in the World of Children” every year. He is also on the board of Champions for Children / Prevent Child Abuse Hampton Roads (in Virginia) and the Harriet Tubman Center for Justice and Peace, in Auburn, NY. He also serves on the national No Hit Zone committee, the Global Education Team of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies group and the Public Policy and Engagement Action Team of the NAtional Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence.
He received his doctorate from the School of Criminal Justice, SUNY, Albany in 1978. He also earned a M.A. in Criminal Justice in 1974, a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969 and a B.A. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Rochester in 1967.
Dr. Lombardo started his teaching career as a teacher in the Osborne School at Auburn Correctional Facility from 1969-1977 where he taught 5th and 8th grade English and high school Spanish to students who lived in the maximum-security prison. Auburn Correctional Facility is the oldest continuously operating prison in the United States, having open its gates to let prisoners in in 1816.
Dr. Lombardo taught courses that are part of the Sociology and Criminal Justice undergraduate and graduate programs, the Work and Professional Studies BS degree program and The Children’s Rights Interdisciplinary Minor. Dr. Lombardo also served as Coordinator of the upper level general education Cluster program, The Work and Professional Studies BS program and the Center for the Study of Work. Dr. Lombardo is a leader in general education and interdisciplinary curriculum development efforts during his time at Old Dominion University.
Over the years, Dr. Lombardo teaching and research have explored the working lives of correctional officers, correctional institutions, prison policy processes, collective violence in prisons, the violence process: from suicide to genocide, and violence in the world of children, perspectives on organizational behavior, and the changing nature of work and its relation to higher education. Dr. Lombardo’s most current research focuses on assessing the impact of the implementation United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the lives of children and the pedagogy of ‘human dignity’.
Dr. Lombardo is the author of the Choice Magazine Award winning book, Guards Imprisoned: Correctional Officers at Work (1st (Elsevier:1981) and 2nd updated edition, (Anderson: 1989). A 3rd edition of Guards Imprisoned was published by Routledge: 2016 as part of its REVIVALS series. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Revivals-Guards-Imprisoned-1989-Correctional-Officers-at/Lombardo/p/book/9781138220843
Dr. Lombardo is Co-editor of the 2nd edition of Prison Violence in America (Anderson: 1994). With Dr. Karen Polonko he is also co-guest editor of Global Bioethics (2005) focusing on “Children in a Changing World”, published by the University of Florence, Italy.In addition, Dr. Lombardo has authored numerous articles, professional presentations and Op-Ed pieces in his areas of expertise.
Lucien Lombardo is a professor who retired from the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University after 40 nearly 40 years. He still teaches on line for Old Dominion. He started his teaching career at Auburn Prison in Auburn, NY. Auburn Correctional Facility is the oldest continuously operating prison in the United States, having open its gates to let prisoners in in 1816. At the prison, Lucien taught high school Spanish and 5th and 8th grade English.