Research/Courses Taught
- Racial Profiling
- Community courts and community justice
- Social contagion of violence
- Deterrent effects of capital punishment
- The jurisprudence of adolescent crime
- Crime control and social effects of mass incarceration
- Perceptions of legitimacy of criminal law
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Detailed Biography:
B.E., New York University, 1968; Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 1975. Conducted research on law and social policy since 1976. Taught at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, 1989-95. Editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 1990-96. Joined the faculty of the Columbia School of Public Health in 1995 as professor and director of the Center for Violence Research and Prevention. Visiting professor, Columbia Law School, 1998-2001; professor, Columbia Law School, since 2001. Director of J.S.D. Program at Columbia Law School and Chair of Graduate Legal Studies, 2003-present. Elected to University Senate from School of Public Health in 2003. Elected as fellow of the American Society of Criminology, 2002. Member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council (Vice-Chair); the MacArthur Foundation Research Program on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice; and the National Consortium on Violence Research of the National Science Foundation. Former Chair, National Policy Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2003-04. Serves on the editorial boards of Criminology and Public Policy, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology; Crime and Justice: A Review of Research; the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; and Family Law Abstracts. Recent publications include: "The Decline Of The Juvenile Death Penalty: Scientific Evidence Of Evolving Norms" (with Valerie West) in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; "Theorizing Community Justice" (with Victoria Malkin), in the Fordham Urban Law Journal; Atkins, Adolescence and the Maturity Heuristic: Rationales for Categorical Exemption of Minors from Capital Punishment, in the New Mexico Law Review; "Reciprocal Effects of Crime and Incarceration in New York City Neighborhoods," in the Fordham Urban Law Journal; "Punishment, Deterrence and Social Control: The Paradox of Punishment in Minority Communities" (with Tracey Meares), in Punishment and Society; "Street Stops and Broken Windows: Terry, Race and Disorder in New York City," in Fordham Urban Law Journal; "Capital Attrition: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995" (with James Liebman), in the Texas Law Review; "Declining Homicide in New York City," in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; and "The Comparative Impacts of Juvenile and Criminal Court Sanctions for Adolescent Felony Offenders," in Law and Policy. Current research examines community courts and community justice, social contagion of violence, deterrent effects of capital punishment, the jurisprudence of adolescent crime, crime control and social effects of mass incarceration, and perceptions of legitimacy of criminal law.
