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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

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Weldon Angelos

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

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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

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Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

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

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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

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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

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Paul Carrillo

Vice President, Giffords Center for Violence Intervention

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Paul Cassell

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

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Jack Chin

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

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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

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Kelly Davis

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

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Mark Drumbl

Alumni Professor, School of Law, Washington and Lee University

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Adam D. Fine

Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University

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Hank Fradella

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

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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

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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

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Maximo Langer

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

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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

Ben McJunkin

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

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Tracey
L. Meares

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School

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Pam Metzger

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

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Russell Miller

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

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Clark Neily

Senior Vice President for Legal Studies, Cato Institute

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Michael O’Hear

Teaches criminal law and related courses at Marquette Law School

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Mark Osler

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

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John Pfaff

Professor of Law, Fordham University

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Jesenia M. Pizarro

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

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Kent Roach

Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

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Benjamin van Rooij

Professor of Law and Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

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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 

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Anthony Smith

Executive Director, Cities United

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Stephen F. Smith

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

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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

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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

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Marianne Wade

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

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Ronald Wright

Professor of Criminal Law, Wake Forest University