Arnold Binder[1] is an American sociologist, criminologist, and Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he founded the School of Social Ecology in 1970.
[2][3] He had previously outlined a roadmap for the School and successfully persuaded UC-Irvine's administrators to create it.
He received the Oliver Johnson Award from the University of California Academic Senate in 2002.
[6] He also founded and initially led the Community Service Programs (originally called the Youth Services Program), a child intervention project in Southern California, in 1972.
[7][8] He is known for his work on juvenile delinquency,[9] including the 1988 college textbook Juvenile Delinquency: Historical, Cultural, Legal Perspectives, which he co-authored with Gilbert Geis and Dickson Bruce.