Alfred Blumstein

H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Carnegie Mellon University

Patrick Clark

Office of Research and Evaluation

National Institute of Justice

Jeanette Covington

Department of Sociology

Rutgers University

Marshall DeBerry

Bureau of Justice Statistics

U.S. Department of Justice

Laura J. Dugan

Georgia State University

Department of Criminal Justice

William F. Eddy

Carnegie Mellon University

Institute for Statistics and Its Applications

Jeffrey Fagan

School of Public Health

Columbia University

David P. Farrington

Institute of Criminology

Cambridge University

Steven Fienberg

Department of Statistics

Carnegie Mellon University

Darnell Hawkins

African American Studies

University of Illinois, Chicago

Philip Heymann

Harvard Law School

Harvard University

Sally Hillsman

Office of Research and Evaluation

National Institute of Justice

Marvin D. Krohn

Department of Sociology

University at Albany, State University of New York

Candace Kruttschnitt

Department of Sociology

University of Minnesota

Judith Lessler

Statistics, Health, and Social Policy

Research Triangle Institute

Colin Loftin

School of Criminal Justice

State University of New York at Albany

James Lynch

School of Public Affairs

American University

Charles Manski

Department of Economics

Northwestern University

Michael G. Maxfield

School of Criminal Justice

Rutgers University

Richard McCleary

School of Social Ecology

University of California, Irvine

Madeline E. McNeeley

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

University of Maryland, College Park

John Monahan

School of Law

University of Virginia

Colm O’Muircheartaigh

NORC, Statistics and Method

University of Chicago

Joan Petersilia

School of Social Ecology

University of California, Irvine

Trivellore Raghunathan

Institute for Social Research

University of Michigan

Michael Rand

Bureau of Justice Statistics

U.S. Department of Justice

Linda E. Saltzman

Injury Prevention and Control

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sidney M. Stahl

Health Care Organizations and Social Institutions

National Institute on Aging

National Institute of Health

Elizabeth A. Stasny

Center for Survey Research

Ohio State University

Kate Stith

School of Law

Yale University

Terence P. Thornberry

School of Criminal Justice

University at Albany, State University of New York

Roger Tourangeau

Joint Program in Survey Methods

University of Maryland, College Park

James R. Walker

Department of Economics

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Charles Wellford

Center for Applied Policy Studies & School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

University of Maryland, College Park

Cathy Spatz Widom

Criminal Justice and Psychology

State University of New York at Albany

Carol V. Petrie, Director

Committee on Law and Justice

National Research Council

Andrew A. White, Director

Committee on National Statistics

National Research Council

Nancy A. Crowell

Committee on Law and Justice

National Research Council

Ralph Patterson

Committee on Law and Justice

National Research Council

Brenda McLaughlin

Committee on Law and Justice

National Research Council

The Committee on Law and Justice was created in 1978 to provide a rationale and model for the role of federally sponsored research in anticrime programs. It serves as a national focal point for objective analysis of crime and justice issues to inform national policy. The committee brings the knowledge and tools of the social and behavioral sciences to bear on the development of improved policy, research, and evaluation in the areas of crime prevention, intervention, and control, as well as civil justice. It does so primarily by establishing committees to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate the research from a variety of scientific disciplines that have relevance for criminal and civil justice matters. The members of the committee share a commitment to using basic and applied research to advance prevention research, improve all components of the justice system, develop a broader range of sanctions to sentence offenders; improve criminal justice technology, and expand research in support of new models of justice.