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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 101-110
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He has been awarded six honorary doctor of science degrees. Louis Arcangeli, M.Ed., is currently a part-time instructor in the department of criminal justice at Georgia State University, a position he has held since 2003.
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Dr. Blumstein's research during the past 20 years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence, and drugenforcement policy.
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He was formerly chief of the Analysis and Evaluation Technology Division, Fuze and Precision Munitions Technology Directorate, responsible for the modeling and evaluation of cannon-launched munitions programs at Picatinny, and chief scientist for the XM982 Excalibur guided projectile. He also teaches graduate classes at Stevens Institute of Technology on Interior, Exterior and Terminal Ballistics as well as undergraduate classes on engineering design.
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Her decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (with four oak leaf clusters) , Purple Heart, Air Medal, and Prisoner of War Medal.
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National Comorbidity Survey, the first nationally representative survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the United States, and a co-director of the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative, a series of comparative community epidemiological surveys of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders and treatment for those disorders in 28 countries around the world. He is also the principal investigator of the Harvard Medical School site for Army STARRS (Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers)
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Kleck's subsequent work Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control was featured in the Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Librarians 39th annual Outstanding Academic Title List, which recognizes books for "excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to their field, and their value as an important treatment of their topic." Dr. Kleck is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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His leadership and innovation in road traffic safety brought him to Washington, DC, as the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where he instituted programs that led to the first absolute declines in U.S. motor vehicle deaths in almost a decade and the lowest highway fatality rate in history.
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He has conducted studies of urban populations in Baltimore for more than 20 years and has led epidemiological studies in Harlem and the Bronx that have served as a platform for subsequent individual- and community-level intervention studies and community-based participatory research to address social determinants of health.
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APPENDIX C 109 more than 610 scholarly papers. He received his baccalaureate in history from Earlham College, his bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from the University of Maryland, and his doctorate in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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