Gary LaFree is a Professor and Chair of the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at the University of Maryland,College Park,the Director of the Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center (MCRIC) and the Founding Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). His main areas of expertise are sociology,criminology,race and crime,cross-national comparative research and political violence and terrorism.
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research,development,and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Environmental criminology focuses on criminal patterns within particular built environments and analyzes the impacts of these external variables on people's cognitive behavior. It forms a part of criminology's Positivist School in that it applies the scientific method to examine the society that causes crime.
The Watts College of Public Service &Community Solutions is one of the 24 independent school units of Arizona State University. It is located at ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus in Arizona. Founded in 1979,the college awards bachelors,masters,and doctoral degrees and is organized into four schools and 17 research centers. The programs are divided amongst the School of Social Work,the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,the School of Public Affairs and the School of Community Resources and Development.
British Society of Criminology (BSC) is a British organization aiming to further the interests and knowledge of both scholars and practitioners involved in any aspect of professional activity,teaching,research or public education related to crime,criminal behaviour and criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom and abroad. BSC is dedicated to promoting criminology and criminological research. Its official,peer-reviewed,scholarly journal is called Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) and is published through SAGE Publications.
Lawrence W. Sherman is an experimental criminologist and police educator who defined evidence-based policing. Since October 2024 he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Benchmark Cambridge,a global police reform organisation. From 2022-24 he was Chief Scientific Officer of the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard,and since 2017 he has served as the Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) is a charity based in the United Kingdom focusing on crime and the criminal justice system. It seeks to bring together people involved in criminal justice through various means,including publications,conferences,and courses.
Freda Adler is a criminologist and educator,currently serving as professor emeritus at Rutgers University and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was President of the American Society of Criminology in 1994-1995. She has acted as a consultant to the United Nations on criminal justice matters since 1975,holding various roles within United Nations organizations. A prolific writer,Adler has published in a variety of criminological areas,including female criminality,international issues in crime,piracy,drug abuse,and social control theories.
David L. Weisburd,is an Israeli/American criminologist who is well known for his research on crime and place,policing and white collar crime. Weisburd was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology,and was awarded the Israel Prize in Social Work and Criminological Research in 2015,considered the state's highest honor. Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology,Law and Society at George Mason University. and Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. At George Mason University,Weisburd was founder of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and is now its Executive Director. Weisburd also serves as Chief Science Advisor at the National Policing Institute in Washington,D.C. Weisburd was the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology,and is editor of the Cambridge Elements in Criminology Series.
Nestor Courakis is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Penology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,Faculty of Law and a full-time Professor at the University of Nicosia.
Richard Rosenfeld was an American criminologist and former Curators’Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Jeremy Travis is an American academic administrator who served as the fourth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice,a senior college of the City University of New York,starting on August 16,2004. On October 25,2016,Travis announced that he would step down from his position as president the next year. In August 2017,he joined the Arnold Ventures LLC as Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice.
Joan Ramme Petersilia was an American criminologist and the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School,as well as the faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
Prisoner reentry is the process by which prisoners who have been released return to the community. Many types of programs have been implemented with the goal of reducing recidivism and have been found to be effective for this purpose. Consideration for the conditions of the communities formerly incarcerated individuals are re-entering,which are often disadvantaged,is a fundamental part of successful re-entry.
Karol Virginia Mason is an American attorney,government appointee,and academic administrator,serving as the fifth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice since August 2017. Formerly,she was an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Justice Programs in the Obama Administration.
Nancy Rodriguez is an American criminologist and professor in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California,Irvine.
Faye S. Taxman is an American legal scholar who is a University Professor at George Mason University (2008–present) in Fairfax,Virginia,United States and the Founding Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. Her work is widely known for its influence on the redesign of aspects of the behavioral corrections system,specifically pertaining to the reduction of recidivism and mechanisms to achieve this such as offender rehabilitation,as showcased in her books Tools of the Trade:A Guide to Incorporating Science into Practice and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment. She has also been an Affiliate Professor with the College of Medicine at Howard University since 2012 and with Griffith University in Brisbane,Australia since 2013.
Public criminology is an approach to criminology that disseminates criminological research beyond academia to broader audiences,such as criminal justice practitioners and the general public. Public criminology is closely tied with “public sociology”,and draws on a long line of intellectuals engaging in public interventions related to crime and justice. Some forms of public criminology are conducted through methods such as classroom education,academic conferences,public lectures,“news-making criminology”,government hearings,newspapers,radio and television broadcasting and press releases. Advocates of public criminology argue that the energies of criminologists should be directed towards "conducting and disseminating research on crime,law,and deviance in dialogue with affected communities." Public criminologists focus on reshaping the image of the criminal and work with communities to find answers to pressing questions. Proponents of public criminology see it as potentially narrowing "the yawning gap between public perceptions and the best available scientific evidence on issues of public concern",a problem they see as especially pertinent to matters of crime and punishment.
Thomas Abt is an American author,crime researcher,and former government official specializing in evidence-informed approaches to reducing crime in urban areas. His book,Bleeding Out:The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets,was published in June 2019 by Basic Books.
Laurie Robinson is an American scholar and public servant who has held multiple positions across government,academia,and the nonprofit sector. Robinson's most notable roles include serving as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs under former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama,and co-chairing Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. She also served on the congressionally created Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections and on an independent commission that explored the potential closure of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex. Most recently,Robinson served as founding Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council on Criminal Justice,a nonpartisan policy and research organization.
