Sung Joon Jang is Research Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior within Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Jang is also Visiting Scholar of the Center for Faith and the Common Good in the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He has recently conducted a series of studies on the rehabilitative, “virtuous” effects of religion and faith-based programs among prisoners in Colombia and South Africa as well as the United States. His research has been published in social scientific journals of sociology, criminology, psychology, and social work. He has also coauthored two books, The Angola Prison Seminary (2016) and The Restorative Prison (2021). Jang served as the founding President of the Korean Society of Criminology in America and has been active in many capacities in the American Society of Criminology.