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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 435-444

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... Mr. Travis has taught courses on criminal justice, public policy, history, and law at Yale College, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York Law School, The George Washington University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
From page 436...
... from the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; and a B.A., cum laude, in American studies from Yale College.  BRUCE WESTERN (Vice Chair) is professor of sociology, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim professor of criminal justice policy and management and the director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University.
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... During his tenure on the council, he advised five governors from both sides of the aisle. In his different capacities in Texas, he has assisted every legislature since 1985 in developing criminal justice policies, including crafting the major Justice Reinvestment initiative adopted by the Texas legislature in 2007.
From page 438...
... In 2001-2002, she was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York; and in 2009, she was named a distinguished lecturer in Japan by the Fulbright Program. She formerly served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences national task force on the challenge of mass incarceration.
From page 439...
... He has made scholarly contributions to the fields of welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution. He has been a scholar in residence at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Stockholm, the Delhi School of Economics, the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
From page 440...
... Tod professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. She is principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study and editor-in-chief of The Future of Children, a journal dedicated to providing research on policies designed to improve child health and well-being.
From page 441...
... His work has appeared in such diverse outlets as American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Sociology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Child Development, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review, Crime and Justice Annual Review, Operations Research, and Stanford Law Review. He is also the author of Group-based Modeling of Development (Harvard University Press, 2005)
From page 442...
... Her research focuses on institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Her recent research has involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and those with criminal records in the low-wage labor market.
From page 443...
... She has also written numerous scholarly articles on the current crisis of mass incarceration, including: "Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline and Transformation in Postwar American History" (Journal of American History, December 2010) , "Downsizing the Carceral State: The Policy Implications of Prisoner Guard Unions" (Criminology and Public Policy, August, 2011)
From page 444...
... 444 THE GROWTH OF INCARCERATION Europe. He edits Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, the Oxford University Press series Studies in Crime and Public Policy, the Oxford University Press series Oxford Handbooks on Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the Oxford University Press series Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy (with Antony Duff)


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