BRIAN FORST

Home address: 2513 Pegasus Lane O: (202) 885-6270 Reston, VA 20191-4226 H: (703) 860-0551

e-mail addresses: bforst@american.edu, forstbrian@aol.com FAX: (202) 885-2907

Employment History and Position at Departure

August 1992 Professor (tenured and promoted to full professor in 1996) to present: Department of Justice, Law and Criminology

School of Public AffairsAmerican UniversityWashington, DC 20016-8043

Recent research: legitimacy, discretion and miscarriages of justice; preventing terrorism, managing public fear; prosecution policy and practice; privatization of policing. Courses taught: research methods and statistics; terrorism, crime and public policy; crime, conscience and community; justice policy; role of police in society; police administration. University Senate (1997-04, 2006-11), Senate Executive Committee (1999-04, 2007-11), Task Force on Graduate Education (2003), School of Public Affairs Rank & Tenure and Educational Policy Committees, University Orchestra (cellist, 1998); Director, Department of Justice, Law & Society PhD Program (2001-10); Department Coordinator on Police Studies (1994-03). Consultation, media interviews.

September 1989 Visiting Assistant Professor to August 1992: Management Science Department

School of Business and Public ManagementThe George Washington UniversityWashington, DC 20052

Full-time faculty member in the Management Science Department. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in information and decision systems. Conducted research on the representation of uncertainty in expert systems, exercise of discretion in the criminal justice system, community policing, justice management information systems, and the computerization of finance and accounting, and worked with Amitai Etzioni to create, plan, and edit book, The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice. Organized and chaired sessions at conferences, delivered papers.

May 1985 to Director of Research August 1989: Police Foundation

Washington, DC 20037

Managed and supervised the Police Foundation's research program, initiating and developing new research projects and participating as a working member of selected research projects. Introduced and implemented a project management system to improve the operations of the Foundation. Conducted research on community-policing and drugs, alternative sanctions for DWI offenders, and alternative enforcement strategies for shoplifting. The Police Foundation is a private, not-for-profit research organization funded primarily by the Ford Foundation and the US Department of Justice.

Employment History and Position at Departure (continued)

April 1974 to Vice President for Research May 1985: Institute for Law and Social Research, Inc.

Washington, DC 20005

Directed research projects on law enforcement, prosecution, and court operations, the deterrent effect of capital punishment, police role in arrest convictability, an empirical test of the prisoner's dilemma, the drugs-crime connection, sentencing policy, the federal justice system, criminal justice performance measurement, the prediction of recidivism, selective incapacitation, victimization, and plea bargaining policy. Became director of research in 1977, expanded the research program significantly, and recruited and helped to develop several outstanding researchers, directing a program of over $5 million of federal and privately supported research projects.

September 1968 Economic Analyst to April 1974: Center for Naval Analyses

Arlington, VA

Conducted research on the economics of the draft for the President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force; manpower effectiveness; the effectiveness of periodic health examinations; decision analysis of clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions; and econometric analysis of the deterrent effect of criminal justice sanctions.

September 1966 to Captain September 1968: US Army

Washington, DC

Served as government project monitor and researcher on a variety of Army manpower research projects.

Education

BS: UCLA, Statistics (1964)MBA: UCLA, Quantitative Methods (1965)PhD studies, Managerial Economics, Cornell University (1965-66)Research Fellow: MIT (1970-71)PhD: The George Washington University, Information & Decision Systems (1992)

Awards, Honor Societies

Outstanding Scholarship and Research Award, School of Public Affairs, American University, 2008, 2011Recipient, Book of the Year Award (for Errors of Justice), Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2006School of Public Affairs Bernard H. Ross Teaching Excellence Award, American University, 2002Outstanding Faculty Service Award, School of Public Affairs, American University, 1997Beta Gamma Sigma Scholastic Honor Society (1965, 1992)

Memberships and Editorships

Executive Board Member, Division on Terrorism & Bias Crimes, American Society of Criminology, 2015-Sutherland Award Selection Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2016-17Voting Member, Sentencing and Criminal Code Revision Commission, District of Columbia, 2004-10Editorial Board Senior Member, Oxford Bibliographies - Criminology, 2009-13

Memberships and Editorships (continued)

Associate Editor, Justice Quarterly, 2006-9Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2008-presentMetropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Commendation, 1996American Society of CriminologyAcademy of Criminal Justice SciencesAmerican Board of Forensic Examiners (Fellow)American Economic AssociationAmerican Statistical Association

Lecturing and Teaching Experience

Professor of Justice, Law & Criminology, School of Public Affairs, American University, 1997-present

Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University, 1993-97

Visiting Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University, 1992-93

Visiting Assistant Professor, Information & Decision Systems, George Washington University, 1990-92

Lecturer, Information and Decision Systems, George Washington University, 1989-90

Course Leader for the American Management Association's course, Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Executives, 1986-89. Included both general sessions and on-site trainings

Lecturer, Quantitative Methods (B&PA 204), The George Washington University, 1967-70

Instructor, MBA Statistics, UCLA, 1964-65

References

Professor Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American UniversityProfessor Richard R. Bennett, Professor of Justice, Law & Society, American UniversityProfessor Shawn Bushway, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, State University of NY - AlbanyProfessor Philip J. Cook, Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy, Duke UniversityProfessor Jack Greene, Professor, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Professor C. Ronald Huff, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of California - IrvineProfessor Cornelius Kerwin, President, American UniversityProfessor James Lynch, Chair, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of MarylandProfessor Peter K. Manning, Brooks Chair of Criminology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Professor Edward Maguire, Department of Criminology, Arizona State UniversityProfessor Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford UniversityProfessor Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology, University of Texas at DallasProfessor Joseph Young, Chair, Department of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University

Publications: Books

Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security, book of original essays co-edited with Jack R. Greene and James P. Lynch (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) - ISBN 9780521899451

Terrorism, Crime and Public Policy (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) - ISBN 9780521676427

Publications: Books (continued)

After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations, book of original essays co-edited with Akbar Ahmed (Polity Press, 2005) - ISBN 0745635024

Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and Remedies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Chinese edition, 2007) - ISBN 9780521821308 [Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences book of the year, 2006]

The Privatization of Policing: Two Views, with Peter K. Manning (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999) - ISBN 0878407359

The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice, editor (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) - ISBN 9781563240744

Power in Numbers, sole author (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1987) - ISBN 978-0471628095

What Happens After Arrest? with Judith Lucianovic and Sarah Cox (Washington, DC: Institute for Law and Social Research, 1977) - ISBN 0895040034

Publications: Dissertation

The Representation of Uncertainty in Expert Systems: An Application in Criminal Investigation, (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, defended 1992, published 1994)

Publications: Monographs

Local-Federal Law Enforcement Partnerships: Research Report, with David Klinger, Ed Maguire, Steve Mastrofski and Tony Pate (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum, 2003)

"Measuring What Matters in Prosecution," (Alexandria, VA: American Prosecutors Research Inst., 2001)

Modern Policing and the Control of Illegal Drugs: Testing New Strategies in Two American Cities, with Craig Uchida and Sampson Annan (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, May 1992). Reissued as National Institute of Justice Research in Brief, "Controlling Street-Level Drug Trafficking: Evidence from Oakland and Birmingham," (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, 1992)

Expanding and Staying Solvent: Balancing Act of the Growing Firm, (New York: American Management Association, 1989)

"The Prevalence of Pleas," with Barbara Boland, Bureau of Justice Statistics Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 1984)

"The Criminal Justice Response to Victim Harm," with Jolene Hernon, National Institute of Justice Report (Washington, DC: May 1984). Reissued as NIJ Research in Brief (June 1985)

"Federal Drug Law Violators," Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, February 1984)

Arrest Convictability as a Measure of Police Performance, with Frank Leahy, Jean Shirhall, Herbert Tyson, Eric Wish, and John Bartolomeo (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, 1982)

Publications: Monographs (continued)

"Federal Justice Statistics," Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, March 1982)

The Investigation and Prosecution of Concurrent Jurisdiction Offenses, FJRP-82/001, with Jack Hausner, Barbara Mullin, and Amy Moorer (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, January 1982)

Publications: Book Chapters

"Local Police and the 'War' on Terror," in The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing, edited by Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane (New York: Oxford, 2014)

"Wrongful Convictions in a World of Miscarriages of Justice," in Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems, edited by Ronald Huff and Martin Killias (New York: Routledge, 2013)

"Prosecution," in Crime and Public Policy, edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia (Oxford University Press, 2011)

"Managing the Fear of Terrorism," chapter in Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security, book co-edited with Jack R. Greene and James P. Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

"Criminal Justice and Terrorism: A Research Agenda," chapter in Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security, book co-edited with Jack R. Greene and James P. Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

"Prosecutors and Errors of Justice," in The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor, edited by John L. Worrall and M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove (SUNY-Albany Press, 2008)

"The Demand Side of Terrorism: Fear," in NATO Security Through Science (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2007)

"Toward a More Civil 21st Century," Chapter 1, with Akbar Ahmed, in After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations, edited by Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2005)

"Prosecutors Discover the Community," Chapter 18, Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues, 4th edition, Chris W. Eskridge, editor (Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2004), adapted from Judicature, Vol. 84 (November-December 2000)

"Problem-Oriented Criminal Investigation," Chapter 20, Contemporary Policing: Controversies, Challenges and Solutions, Quint C. Thurman and Jihong Zhao, editors (Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2004), adapted from Readings in Problem-Oriented Policing, edited by Tara O'Connor Shelley and Anne C. Grant (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum, 1998)

"Corruption in Private Policing," chapter in Police Corruption: Paradigms, Models and Concepts, edited by Stanley Einstein and Menachem Amir (Huntsville, TX: OICJ Press, 2003)

"Prosecution," Chapter 18, Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control, 2nd edition, James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia, editors (San Francisco: ICS Press, 2002)

"Managing Criminal Investigation," in Handbook of Criminal Justice Administration, edited by Toni DuPont-Morales, Michael Hooper, and Judith Schmidt (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2001)

Publications: Book Chapters (continued)

"The Privatization and Civilianization of Policing," in Criminal Justice 2000, Volume 2 - Boundary Changes in Criminal Justice Organizations (Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, 2000)

"Problem-Solving Investigations," Chapter 12, Police Problem Solving, Quint Thurman & J.D. Jamieson, editors (Cincinnati: Anderson, 2004), adapted from Readings in Problem-Oriented Policing, edited by Tara O'Connor Shelley & Anne Grant (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum, 1998)

"Evidence, Probabilities, and Legal Standards for the Determination of Guilt: Beyond the O.J. Trial," Chapter 2 of Representing O.J.: Murder, Criminal Justice, and Mass Culture, edited by Gregg Barak (Guilderland, NY: Harrow and Heston, 1996)

"Prosecution and Sentencing," Chapter 16 of Crime, edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1995)

"Expert Systems," with Thomas J. Nagy, Chapter 2 of Emerging Information Technologies, Vol. 3 (edited by Jay Liebowitz) of Advances in Telematics, (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1995)

"Quantitative Tools: Numbers as the Fundamental Language of Business," Chapter 4 of The New Portable MBA, edited by Eliza G. Collins and Mary Anne Devanna (John Wiley and Sons, 1994)

"Controlling Street-Level Drug Trafficking: 'Professional' and 'Community' Policing Approaches," with Craig Uchida, in Drugs and Crime: Evaluating Public Policy Initiatives, edited by Doris MacKenzie and Craig Uchida (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1994)

"The Prosecutor and the Public," in The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice, edited by Brian Forst (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993)

"Using the Computer in Finance and Accounting," Chapter 4 of The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, edited by John Leslie Livingstone (John Wiley and Sons, 1992)

"Prosecution and Sentencing," Chapter 10 of Crime and Public Policy, edited by James Q. Wilson (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1983)

"Drug Use and Crime: Providing a Missing Link," with Eric Wish, in Violent Crime in America, edited by Kenneth R. Feinberg (Washington, DC: National Policy Exchange, 1983)

"Prosecutor's Case Selection Problem - 'Career Criminals' and Other Concerns" (NCJ 92287), in Dealing With Dangerous Offenders, Volume 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1983), Daniel McGillis, Susan Estrich, Mark H. Moore and William Spelman, editors (NCJ 92277)

"The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: An Assessment of the Estimates," with Lawrence R. Klein and Victor Filatov, in Deterrence and Incapacitation: Estimating the Effects of Criminal Sanctions on Crime Rates, edited by Alfred Blumstein et al., (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1978)

"Modeling Police Operations from a Court Perspective," in Operations Research & Management Science in Justice & Security, Sidney Brounstein & Murray Kamrass, editors (Lexington, MA: DC Heath Co., 1976)

"Statistical Techniques and Their Limitations in the Analysis of Criminal Justice Data," in the US Department of Justice, Quantitative Tools for Criminal Justice Planning, edited by Leonard Oberlander (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1975)

"An Analysis of Alternative Periodic Health Examination Strategies," Chapter 16 of Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis, edited by William A. Niskanen, et al. (Chicago: Aldine, 1972)

Publications: Book Chapters (continued)

"Manpower and Budgetary Implications of Ending Conscription," with Walter Y. Oi, in Report of the President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force (Wash., DC: US Govt. Printing Office, 1970)

Publications: Refereed Articles

"Targeted Killings: How Should We Assess Them?" Journal of Criminology and Public Policy , Volume 16, Issue 1 (February 2017)

"Studying Discretion in the Processes that Generate Criminal Justice Sanctions," with Shawn D. Bushway, Justice Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 2 (2013), pp. 199-222

"James Q. Wilson," in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology, edited by Richard Wright (New York: Oxford, 2013)

"Managing Miscarriages of Justice from Victimization to Reintegration," Albany Law Review, Volume 74, Number 3 (2011), pp. 1209-1275

"Criminologists and Terrorism: Finding Firearms Under Lampposts," Criminology and Public Policy, Volume 8 (August 2009), pp. 655-60

"Taming the Justice Errors Demon," The Responsive Community, vol. 13 (Fall 2003), pp. 12-16 <http://www2.gwu.edu/~ccps/rcq/issues/13-4.pdf>

"Toward an Understanding of the Effect of Changes in Standards of Proof on Errors of Justice," Jurimetrics, vol. 41 (Summer 2001), pp. 489-504

"What Is the Probability that the Offender in a New Case Is in the Modus Operandi File?" with Michael Planty, International Journal of Police Science and Management, vol. 3 (Winter 2000), pp. 124-37

"Prosecutors Discover the Community," Judicature, vol. 84 (November-December 2000), pp. 135-41

"Prosecution's Coming of Age," Justice Research and Policy, vol. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 21-46

"Unemployment and Crime: Implications for the Caribbean," with Richard R. Bennett, Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology, vol. 3 (January 1998), pp. 1-29

"The Decomposition and Graphical Analysis of Crime and Sanctions Data: A Cross-National Application," with James P. Lynch, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 13, Issue 2 (June 1997), pp 97-119

"The Analytics of Criminal Investigation: Putting Sherlock Holmes in a Box," Journal of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis, vol. 9 (Summer 1995), pp. 33-42

"Forensic Evidence, Probabilities, and Legal Standards for the Determination of Guilt in Trial," The Forensic Examiner, vol. 4 (January-February 1995), pp. 28-32

"Police in the Community, Community in the Police," Responsive Community, vol. 3 (Summer 1993). Reprinted in Rights & the Common Good, edited by Amitai Etzioni (St. Martin Press, 1994), pp. 57-62

"The Special Deterrent Effects of a Jail Sanction on First-Time Drunk Drivers: A Quasi-Experimental Study," with Susan Martin & Sampson Annan, Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 25 (Summer 1993), pp. 561-68

Publications: Refereed Articles (continued)

"Does Arrest Deter Shoplifters?" with Hubert Williams and Edwin E. Hamilton, Security Management (September 1987)

"Prosecutors Don't Always Aim to Pleas," with Barbara Boland, Federal Probation, vol. 49 (June 1985)

"Selective Incapacitation: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?" Judicature, vol. 68 (October-November 1984). Reprinted in the MCAT Practice Tests, vols. 1-7 (New York: Kaplan, 2010)

"Overburdened Courts and Underutilized Information Technology: A Modern Prescription for a ChronicDisorder," Judicature, vol. 68 (June-July 1984)

"Prosecution and Sentencing," The Prosecutor, vol. 18 (Spring 1984), pp. 30-37

"Managing Prosecution," Popular Government, vol. 49 (Fall 1983)

"Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Conflicting Evidence?" Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, vol. 74 (Fall 1983)

"Selective Incapacitation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" Federal Probation, vol. 47 (September 1983)

"Targeting Federal Resources on Recidivists: An Empirical View," with William Rhodes, James Dimm, Arthur Gelman, and Barbara Mullin, Federal Probation, vol. 47 (June 1983)

"Structuring the Exercise of Sentencing Discretion in the Federal Courts," with William Rhodes, Federal Probation, vol. 46 (March 1982)

"Punishment and Sentencing: Developing Sentencing Guidelines Empirically from Principles of Punishment," with Charles Wellford, Rutgers Law Review, vol. 33 (Spring 1981)

"Sentencing and Social Science: Research for the Formulation of Federal Sentencing Guidelines," with William Rhodes and Charles Wellford, Hofstra Law Review, vol. 7 (Winter 1979)

"The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Cross-State Analysis of the 1960s," Minnesota Law Review, vol. 61 (May 1977)

"The Prisoner's Dilemma: Theory and Reality," Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 5 (Spring 1977)

"A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Prosecutor," Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 6 (January 1977)

"Participation in Illegitimate Activities: Further Empirical Findings," Policy Analysis, vol. 2 (Sum. 1976)

"Decision Analysis and Medical Malpractice," Operations Research, vol. 22 (January 1974)

Encyclopedic and Bibliographic Entries

"Prosecution and Courts," in Oxford Bibliographies: Criminology, edited by Richard Wright (New York: Oxford, 2014)

"Legitimacy," in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology, edited by Richard Wright (NY: Oxford, 2012)"Discretion in the Criminal Justice System," co-authored with Shawn D. Bushway, in Oxford Bibliographies: Criminology, edited by Richard Rosenfeld (New York: Oxford, 2011)

Encyclopedic and Bibliographic Entries (continued)

"Public-Private Partnerships," entry in The Encyclopedia of Police Science, Third Edition, Jack R. Greene, editor (New York: Routledge, 2007)

"Private Policing," in Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Larry E. Sullivan and Marie Simonetti Rosen, editors (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005), Volume 1, pp. 362-5

"Charge Attrition," in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, David Levinson, editor (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002), Volume 1, pp. 178-81

"Police Privatization," in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, David Levinson, editor (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002), Volume 3, pp. 1176-81

"Crime Detection and Prevention: Policing, Prosecution and Sentencing," entry in the Collier's Encyclopedia (New York: 1996)

"Criminal Justice System: Measurement of Performance," entry in the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, edited by Sanford H. Kadish (New York: Macmillan and Free Press, 1983)

Current Research: Books, Chapters and Articles in Preparation

"Targeted Killings: How Should We Assess Them?" Journal of Criminology and Public Policy (forthcoming)

"Preventing Violent Crimes by Reducing Wrongful Convictions," with C. Ronald Huff, chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, 2nd edition, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Daniel J. Flannery and Matt DeLisi, editors (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

"Measuring Terrorism," with Suat Cubukcu (under review, Homicide Studies, special edition on terrorism) "Can we Trust Accounts of Trends in Terrorism?" with Suat Cubukcu (forthcoming)

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Principles, Policies & Practices with Tricia Bacon and Jason Fritz (forthcoming 2018)

Publications: Op/Ed Articles, Unrefereed Journal Articles & Essays, Blogs, Special Editions Edited

"Why Even Mass-murdering White Supremacists like Dylann Roof Should Not Receive the Death Penalty," Learn Liberty (February 16, 2017)

"1Playing Fast and Loose with the Reporting of Terrorism," Political Violence @ a Glance (February 15, 2017), with Suat Cubukcu

"Defining Terrorism Down," Political Violence @ a Glance (December 21, 2016)

"Advocates of Limited Government Should Oppose the Death Penalty," Learn Liberty (October 19, 2016)

"Terrorism’s Media-Politics Complex," Political Violence @ a Glance (August 12, 2016)

"Accomplishments, Challenges, and Prospects," afterword to the 2009 National Counterterrorism Report on Terrorism (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 2010)

Publications: Op/Ed Articles, Unrefereed Journal Articles & Essays, Special Editions Edited (continued)

Instructor's Manual for Terrorism, Crime and Public Policy, with Kelley Moult (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Co-edited (with Richard Sha) "Strategic Planning at American University," American Senator, vol. 19, Number 2 (Spring 2008)

"Investing in Academic Excellence," American Senator, vol. 19, Number 2 (Spring 2008)

"Profiles and Justice," letter in The New Yorker (December 3, 2007), p. 12

Co-edited (with Richard Sha) "Governance at American University," American Senator, vol. 19, Number 1 (Fall 2007)

"University Governance Then and Now, Here and There," American Senator, vol. 19, No. 1 (Fall 2007)

"The Cost of Errant Justice," Washington Post (March 30, 2006), p. A23

"Critical and Unresolved Issues Associated with Police Corruption," in Police Corruption: Challenges for Developed Countries - Comparative Issues and Commissions of Inquiry, edited by Menachem Amir and Stanley Einstein (Huntsville, TX: OICJ Press, 2004), p. 444

"Making Sense of Community Policing, After All These Years," Law Enforcement News (March 15/31, 2003), pp. 13-14

"Policing in the Era of Terrorism," Law Enforcement News (March 31, 2002), pp. 13-14

Edited "Governance at American University," special issue, American Senator, vol. 18 (March 2002)

"Academic Excellence, Budgets and the Endowment," American Senator, vol. 18 (March 2002), pp. 12-13

"An Unresolved Issue in Policing," in Policing, Security and Democracy: Special Aspects of 'Democratic Policing', edited by Menachem Amir and Stanley Einstein (Huntsville, TX: OICJ Press, 2001), pp. 238-39

"What Questions Should We Be Asking?" American Senator, vol. 18 (October 2001), pp. 9-11,15

"Enrollments, Selectivity and Acceptance Rates: Measuring What Matters," American Senator, vol. 17 (October 2000), pp. 4-7

"Merit Review and Productivity," American Senator, vol. 14 (November 1997), pp. 5-6

"O.J. Simpson and Justice By the Numbers," Law Enforcement News (September 30, 1994), p. 8

"Fairness on Trial: Guidelines for Prosecutorial Power," Washington Post Outlook (Aug. 26, 1990), p. C5

"Let's Stop Bashing the Bean Counters," Los Angeles Times Viewpoints (February 14, 1988), p. IV-3

"Violent Crime, By the Numbers," The Washington Post (May 5, 1981)

"Why Arrests Fail to Result in Conviction," The Wall Street Journal (February 16, 1979)

Publications: Book Reviews

"Federal Prosecutions of Terrorists: Triumph of Madness over Chaos," review of Wadie E. Said's Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions (New York: Oxford, 2015), in the Rutgers Book Review Journal (July 2016)

Review of three books on terrorism -- David L. Altheide's Terrorism and the Politics of Fear; Michael P. Arena and Bruce A. Arrigo's The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the Terrorist Threat; and Mark S. Hamm's Terrorism as Crime -- for Theoretical Criminology, Volume 12, No. 2 (May 2008), pp. 246-50

Richard Pearlstein's Fatal Future? Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder (University of Texas Press, 2004), in International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 17 (March 2007)

Bruce Benson's To Serve and Protect, book review in Social Service Review, vol. 74 (September 2000)

"Ethnography up in Smoke," Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 25 (Summer 1997)

"Prisons and Politics: Book Review," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 73 (Spring 1982)

"Economics, Opportunity, and Crime: Book Review," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 68 (September 1977)

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised

Joel Hunt, Do Crime Hotspots Move? Exploring the Effects of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem on Crime Hot Spot Stability, July 11, 2016

Suat Cubukcu, The Dark Figure of Terrorism: Understanding the Reporting and Non-reporting of Terrorist Events, March 28, 2016

Gokhan Aksu, Winning Hearts and Minds in Counterterrorism Through Community Policing and Procedural Justice: Evidence from Turkey, April 22, 2014

Kelley Moult, Gatekeepers or Rights Keepers? Domestic Violence, Court Clerks and the Administration of Justice in South Africa, June 24, 2010

Ali Ozdogan, A Model of Terrorism: Strategic Interactions and Contextual Details, August 18, 2008

Jocelyn Fontaine, The Promise of Home Ownership: Does Tenure Choice Mediate the Relationship Between Black Segregation and Robberies in Large Cities? June 23, 2008

Lynn Bauer, School Structural Characteristics and Social Capital: The Impact of the School Environment on Criminal and Non-criminal Incidents in U.S. Public Schools, February 20, 2008

Heather Davies, Understanding Variations in Murder Clearance Rates: The Influence of the Political Environment, December 4, 2003

Stephen Gies, The Influence of Interscholastic Athletic Participation on Delinquency, April 23, 2003

Gerard Rainville, Differing Incentives of Appointed and Elected Prosecutors and the Relationship between Prosecutor Policy and Votes in Local Elections, November 5, 2002

Michael Planty, Examining the Differential Returns from Robbery Incidents, December 5, 2000

Panels Organized / Chaired

"Police Interrogations and Investigations," panel at the 70th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 2014

"Tribute to James Q. Wilson," panel at the 68th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012

"Extremism and Terrorism," panel at the 68th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012

"Rethinking Terrorism," panel at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November 2011

"Sentencing Symposium Revisited: Where Do We Go From Here?" Panel at the 62nd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 2010

"Research on Sentencing Guidelines," 47th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Diego, February 2010

"Research on Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining," 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2009

Panel on Terrorism, 75th Anniversary of the School of Public Affairs, Washington, DC, March 2009

"Psychological Aspects of Terrorism," 44th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, March 2007

"Criminologists Thinking About Terrorism," 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2006

"Terrorism and Criminology," 57th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 2005

"The Adversarial Process: Prosecution and Defense," 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, November 2004

"The Fight Against Terrorism," for School of Public Affairs Graduate Council, March 2004

"Sentencing Discretion," 55th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, Nov. 2003

"Police Integrity," 54th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002

"Understanding Miscarriages of Justice," 53rd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 2001

"The Quality of Justice," 38th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Washington, DC, April 2001

"Community Prosecution," 52nd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 2000

"Classification and Measurement Techniques," 51st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 1999

Panels Organized / Chaired (continued)

"Building Bridges from the Criminal Justice System to the Community," 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994

"The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice II," 4th annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Irvine, California, March 1992

"The Socio-Economics and Civil Justice," 4th annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Irvine, California, March 1992

"The Socio-Economics of Crime and Justice I," 50th anniversary meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 1991

"Socio-Economics and the Law," 3rd annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Stockholm, June 1991

"Expert System Applications in Criminal Justice," 41st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Reno, November 1989

"Prosecutorial Discretion in Plea Bargaining," 38th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 1986

"Selective Incapacitation: Methodology and Policy," 36th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Cincinnati, November 1984

Papers Delivered at Conferences

"Are Open-Source Reports of Terrorist Events Crowded Out by Other Major News Events?" (co-authored with Suat Cubukcu) panel at the 71st annual meeting of the Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November 2015

"Separatist Terrorism: What Precisely Are the Lessons of History?" Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Seminare on Combating Separatist Terrorism, Arlington, VA, August 2015

"Discrepancies between Open Source and Official Terrorism Data: Evidence from Turkey" (co-authored with Suat Cubukcu) panel at the 70th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 2014

"Linguistic Style Matching in Police Interrogations," (co-authored with Belen Lowrey) panel at the 70th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, November 2014

"The Myth of Suicide Terrorism: Author (Adam Lankford) Meets Critic (Brian Forst)," panel at the 69th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2013

"Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Open Source Data on Terrorism and Gang Violence," (co-authored with Suat Cubukcu) panel at the 69th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November 2013

"Thinking About James Q. Wilson," panel in tribute to Professor Wilson at the 68th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012

"Predicting Terrorism," panel at the 68th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 2012

Papers Delivered at Conferences (continued)

"Local Police and the 'War' on Terrorism," presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, New York, March 2012

"Terrorism, Crime, and Games," 63rd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November 2011

"Terrorism Definitions and Events: How Do They Vary? How Much Consensus? What are the Correlates of Dissensus?" with Gail Hsiao, 63rd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC, November 2011

"Preventing Terrorism: Short-term Tactics and Long-term Strategies," presented at the Conference on Terrorism and Liberal Democracy, Roskilde (Copenhagen), Denmark, September 2011

"Huff and Killias' Wrongful Conviction: Comment," presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Toronto, March 2011

"Effects of Discretion and Decision Making on Sentencing," with Shawn D. Bushway, presented at the 62nd

annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 2010

"Discretion, Rule of Law, and Rationality," with Shawn D. Bushway, presented at the Symposium on Sentencing, SUNY-Albany, Albany, New York, September 24, 2010

"Managing Discretion in Sentencing: Can Advisory Guidelines Moderate 'Unique Judicial Stylings'?" with Sharon Melzer, presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Diego, February 2010

"Sentencing: How Judges Think," with Renee Souris, presented at the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2009

"The Determinants of Sentencing: A Meta-analysis," with Renee Souris, presented at the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2009

"Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining: Basics," presented at the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2009

"Advisory Sentencing Guidelines and Sentencing Disparity: An Empirical Test," with Sharon Melzer, presented at the 60th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, November 2008

"Improving Police Effectiveness and Transparency: National Information Needs on Law Enforcement," keynote address, Bureau of Justice Statistics conference on National Information , February 12, 2008

"Terrorism, Crime and Public Policy," presented at the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 2007

"Botero on Abu Ghraib: Implications for Professional Responsibility," Panel on Professional Responsibility After Abu Ghraib, American University, November 2007

"Fear of Terrorism: Models for Describing and Dealing With It," co-authored with Mark McInerney at the 44th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, March 2007

"Residential Segregation and the Urban Underclass: How Urban Decline Correlates with Crime," co-authored with Jocelyn Fontaine at the 44th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Seattle, March 2007

Papers Delivered at Conferences (continued)

"Security and Justice in the Homeland: Criminologists on Terrorism," presented at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2006

"Routine Activities Theory and Terrorism: Preliminary Estimates and Prospective Implications," co-presented with Mark McInerney at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2006

"Race or Class? How Income Disparity and Residential Segregation Converge with Crime," co-presented with Jocelyn Fontaine at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2006

"The Demand Side of Terrorism: Fear," presented at the NATO Conference on the Understanding and Response to Terrorism, Washington, DC, September 2006

"Managing the Fear of Terrorism," presented at the 57th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 2005

"Managing Errors of Justice: The Role of the Prosecutor," presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, November 2004

"Error in the Era of Terror: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities, Reducing Social Costs," presented at the Communitarian Summit, Washington, DC, July 2004

"You Must Remember This: A Spatial Difference Is Not a Change, As Time Goes By (The Interpretation of Regression Coefficients in the Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data)," paper with James P. Lynch for the 55th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November 2003

"In Search of Security," presented at the 55th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November 2003

"The Right to Counsel and Errors of Justice," discussant paper, 25th annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, November 2003

"If Wrongful Convictions Were a Disease, What Would Be the Cure?" invited paper, International Workshop on Wrongful Convictions, Briel/Brigels, Switzerland, August 2003

"Managing Errors in the New Era of Policing," invited paper, National Institute of Justice Conference on Research and Evaluation, Washington, DC, July 2003

"Managing Policing Errors in the Era of Terrorism," invited plenary session paper, International Conference on Policing & Security: In Search of Security, Montréal, Québec, Canada, February 2003

"Minimizing Errors of Justice: The Role of the Police," presented at the 54th annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002

"Measuring What Matters in Prosecution," presented at National Institute of Justice Conference on Community Prosecution, Washington, DC, December 2001

"Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and Remedies," presented at the 53rd annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 2001

"Prosecution Policy and Errors in Justice," presented at the 38th annual meeting of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Washington, April 2001

Papers Delivered at Conferences (continued)

"One Cheer for Community Prosecution," presented at the 52nd annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 2000

"Trials and Error," presented with Gerard Rainville at the 51st annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 1999

"Just Do It? The Effect of Participation in Athletics on Delinquency," presented with Stephen Gies at the 51st annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November 1999

"The Role of Prosecutors in Criminal Justice Planning," presented at the 25th joint annual meeting of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and Justice Research and Statistics Association, Baltimore, November 1999

"Prosecution's Coming of Age," presented at the National Academy of Sciences Conference on Prosecution, Washington, DC, July 1999

"Problem-Oriented Investigation," presented at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November 1997

"What Is the Probability that the Offender in a New Case Is in the M.O. File?" presented with Michael Planty at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November 1997

"The Logic of Inference and Decision Making in Criminal Investigation," presented at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 1996

"Making Sense of the Drop in Burglary Rates: Criminologists as the Keystone Cops," presented with James P. Lynch at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Nov. 1996

"How Far Have We Come and Would We Do It All Over Again?: The Courts," presented at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 1996

"Unemployment, Crime, and Spaghetti: Disentangling International Data," presented with Richard R. Bennett at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November 1995

"The Decomposition and Graphical Analysis of Crime and Sanctions Data," presented at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994

"Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Assessment of a Popular Hypothesis," presented at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994

"The Analytics of Criminal Investigation: Putting Sherlock Holmes in a Box," presented at the 45th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, October 1993

"Modeling Uncertainty in Expert Systems: An Assessment of Alternative Approaches to Drawing Inferences About Offenders from the Crime Scene Evidence," 2nd International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, College Park, Maryland, April 1993

"Improving Criminal Investigation: Dealing with Uncertainty in Expert Systems," presented at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November 1992

"Community Policing," presented at the 4th annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Irvine, California, March 1992

"The Prosecutor and the Community," presented at 3rd annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1991

Papers Delivered at Conferences (continued)

"Law Enforcement Strategies for Controlling Street Drug Trafficking," delivered at the 42nd annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Baltimore, November 1990

"Expert System Shells: Demonstrations for the Classroom," presented at technology fair on new techniques in teaching and research ("InfoOptions for the 1990's"), Geo. Washington Univ., March 1990

"Shoplifting and Special Deterrence: Evidence on Juveniles and Adults," with Earl Hamilton, delivered at the 38th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November 1986

"An Empirical Analysis of Dual Jurisdiction Offenders," delivered at the 35th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November 1983

"Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Conflicting Evidence?" delivered at the 35th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November 1983

"The Prosecutor's Case Selection Problem: 'Career Criminals' and Other Concerns," delivered at Conf. on Public Danger, Dangerous Offenders and the Criminal Justice System, Harvard University, February 1982

"Sentencing Guidelines and Impact Analysis," with William M. Rhodes, delivered at joint annual meeting of the Inst. of Management Sciences and the Operations Research Society of America, Toronto, May 1981

"Research to Reform Sentencing," delivered at the joint annual meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences and the Operations Research Society of America, Washington, May 1980

"The Prisoners' Dilemma: Theory and Reality," delivered at the joint annual meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and the Institute of Management Sciences, Miami, November 1976

"The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: An Assessment of the Estimates," with Lawrence R. Klein and Victor Filatov, delivered at the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Deterrence and Incapacitation," Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 19, 1976

"Estimation of the Deterrent Effects of Criminal Sanctions: Rejoinder," delivered at the joint annual meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and the Institute of Management Sciences, Las Vegas, November 1975

"Crime Prediction Within and Between Police Jurisdictions," delivered at the 44th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, San Diego, November 1973

"Decision Analysis and Medical Malpractice," delivered at the 41st national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, New Orleans, April 1972

"The Grisly Analytics of Death, Disability, and Disbursements," delivered at the 40th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Anaheim, October 1971

"Estimating Multidimensional Utility Functions on the Basis of Revealed Preferences: An Application to Clinical Decision Making," delivered at the 39th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Dallas, May 1971

"A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Medical Diagnosis and Treatment," delivered at the 11th American meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences, Los Angeles, October 1970

Legislative Testimony/Briefings

Testified on the deterrent effect of the death penalty before the Maryland Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, September 5, 2008

Briefing, "Target Attractiveness, Fear, and the Prevention of Terrorism," at the Congressional Briefing on Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy: New Research Findings, US Senate, September 10, 2007

Testified on community policing at Communitarian Teach-In, US Senate, November 18, 1991

Testified on federal sentencing practices before the Subcommittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary (Senator Edward Kennedy presiding), US Senate, May 23, 1983

Testified on crime and the criminal justice system response to crime before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Judiciary Committee (Cong. William Hughes presiding), US House of Representatives, June 18, 1981

Testified on sentencing practices in the District of Columbia before the Committee on the Judiciary (Councilman David Clarke presiding), Council of the District of Columbia, Public Hearings on the District of Columbia Basic Criminal Code Act of 1979, April 17, 1980 (testimony reprinted in the Report of the District of Columbia Court System Study Committee of the District of Columbia Bar [Horsky Report], prepared for the Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, US Senate, April 1983)

Clients, Consultations

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