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Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Pages 393-400
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He has conducted surveys for Great Britain's Home Office on contacts between the police and the public in England and Wales; as well as surveys on drug enforcement in public housing in Washington, DC; problem-solving policing and racial conflict in the United States; crime and the racial fears of white Americans; community participation in community policing; and reactions to crime in cross-national perspective. He was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice.
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Du Bois Institute. He served on the National Research Council's Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, and also on the board of overseers for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey.
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His research focuses on the prevention of crime at places, the analysis and mapping of crime hot spots, drug dealing and trafficking control, criminal investigations, and police problemsolving strategies. He is a former director of research for the Police Executive Research Forum, where he helped pioneer the development and testing of problem-oriented policing.
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His research interests include police reform and organizational change, measuring the performance of police organizations, testing theories of officer behavior, and field methods in criminological research. He and several colleagues recently conducted the Project on Policing Neighborhoods, a study on community policing at the street level, based on nearly 7,000 hours of systematic observation of patrol officers.
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RUTH D PETERSON is professor of sociology and director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University, where she has been on the faculty since 1985.
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She has investigated variation in city governments' responses to volatile morality issues, such as abortion clinic protests, gay rights proposals, needle exchange programs, pornography, sexually explicit enterprises, and hate crimes. She was president of the American Political Science Association's organized sections on urban politics and on public policy.
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He has served as a principal investigator for a number of federally supported research studies, including the Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment and the Drug Market Analysis Program in Jersey City. He has also served as a scientific and statistical adviser to local, national, and international organizations, including the National Institute of Justice, the Institute of Law and Justice, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts, the British Home Office Research Unit, and the Israeli Ministry of Police.
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