
Rethinking Crime and Violence
Rethinking Crime and Violence
The Academy for Justice is excited to launch its newest initiative, Rethinking Crime and Violence. Ultimately, this initiative intends to provide policymakers, stakeholders, and the public with the means for understanding violence and its occurrence and to develop appropriate, effective criminal justice response through policy and practice reform. This initiative serves to comprehensively explore and reconcile violent crime and its role in the criminal justice system.
Acknowledging that this topic is not only very broad, but also very consequential in the current discourse of criminal justice reform, the Academy for Justice has formed a Working Group on Crime and Violence made up of leading scholars, drawn from numerous disciplines, who will share and integrate their academic expertise, and criminal justice professionals and policy makers who will contribute their practical expertise.
The Working Group on Crime and Violence will collaborate with each other and with the Academy for Justice to ensure the conversation is robust, balanced, and innovative. Ultimately, the Rethinking Crime and Violence project will produce tangible work product to advance criminal justice policy and practice reform in the violent crime sphere. Real-life applicability is a critical measure of success for this initiative.
Working Group on Crime and Violence
Project Contributors

Weldon Angelos
President of The Weldon Project, Co-Founder of MISSION[GREEN], Music Producer, and Criminal Justice Reform Advocate

Jose Ashford
Professor of Human Behavior in the Social Environment in the School of Social Work and a Professor of Law and Behavioral Science, Arizona State University

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay
Director of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing (CCJP), University of Birmingham

Valena Beety
Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer College of Law, and Senior Research Scholar with the Academy for Justice, Arizona State University

Douglas A. Berman
Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law and Executive Director of the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Dr. Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, and an Affiliated scholar of John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Research and Evaluation Center

Paul Carrillo
Vice President, Giffords Center for Violence Intervention

Paul Cassell
Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of Utah

Jack Chin
Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Frank Rudy Cooper
William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law

Kelly Davis
Ph.D., Associate Professor and Senior Director of Research Education and Training, Arizona State University and licensed clinical psychologist

Mark Drumbl
Alumni Professor, School of Law, Washington and Lee University

Adam D. Fine
Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

Hank Fradella
Ph.D., Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

Dr. Garth den Heyer
Member of faculty, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, and Senior Research Fellow with the National Police Foundation

Cecelia Klingele
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School, and a Faculty
Associate, La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the Institute for Research on Poverty

Maximo Langer
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Stacy Leeds
Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor of Law and Leadership, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

Erik Luna
Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

Ben McJunkin
Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Tracey
L. Meares
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School

Pam Metzger
Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law

Russell Miller
J.B. Stombock Professor of Law, W&L University

Clark Neily
Senior Vice President for Legal Studies, Cato Institute

Michael O’Hear
Teaches criminal law and related courses at Marquette Law School

Mark Osler
Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas

John Pfaff
Professor of Law, Fordham University

Jesenia M. Pizarro
Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Arizona State University

Kent Roach
Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Benjamin van Rooij
Professor of Law and Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

Michael Scott
Clinical Professor, Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing

Michael Serota
Associate Professor, Loyola Law School, Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Lab, and Senior Research Scholar with the Academy for Justice, Arizona State University

Chris Slobogin
Director, Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program

Anthony Smith
Executive Director, Cities United

Stephen F. Smith
Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

Cassia Spohn
Regents Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and an Affiliate Professor of Law at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Steve Twist
Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, co-author Victims in Criminal Procedure, 4th Ed. Carolina Academic Press, and founder of Arizona Voice for Crime Victims

Marianne Wade
Reader in Criminal Justice, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham

Ronald Wright
Professor of Criminal Law, Wake Forest University