The briefing took place in the Rayburn Building of the House of Representatives, in Room 2168 - The GOLD ROOM. The Rayburn building is on the south side of the U.S. Capitol Building, just 2 blocks west of the Capitol South Metro Station. The Briefing will begin sharply at 10:00AM - please plan on coming earlier to get through security at the building and secure a seat in the room.
Thank you to all who participated in this year's successful event.
Hubert Williams is president of the Police Foundation, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovation and the improvement of policing. Since 1985, Williams has directed all foundation operations and is a voting member of the board of directors. He has been a leading advocate for professional standards and uniform practices in policing, and has presided over the design and implementation of scientific field experiments that are on the leading edge of the development of modern police policy and procedure. He leads the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence.
Anthony A. Braga is a Senior Research Fellow in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard University) and a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is also a member of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and a Senior Fellow in the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Vice President and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He received his M.P.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.
Catherine Gallagher is the Director of the Cochrane College for Policy at George Mason University – a new partnership between George Mason and the Cochrane Collaboration designed to tailor Cochrane’s global network and methodological rigor in evidence synthesis in healthcare and social policy arena to the current US policy landscape. In addition to leading this effort, Dr. Gallagher currently serves on a Health and Human Services Secretarial Advisory Board, an Institute of Medicine Committee, and on the Cochrane Fields Executive Committee and the Campbell Collaboration’s Crime and Justice Steering Group. Her substantive area of interest lies in the intersection between health and justice agencies, and opportunities to improve the health of underserved, high risk adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. To this end, she is the Convener and Director of the Cochrane Justice Health Field (one of 14 Cochrane Fields worldwide), and led the 2007 research synthesis activities of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of the US Surgeon General that formed the basis of the Federal Initiative on Juvenile Justice Health. Dr. Gallagher came to George Mason University’s Department of Public and International Affairs in 1999, and is currently an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society.
Christopher Koper is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. He was formerly the Director of Research for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a policing membership and research organization based in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland and has over 20 years of experiencing conducting criminological research at PERF, the University of Pennsylvania, the Urban Institute, the RAND Corporation, the Police Foundation, and other organizations, where he has written and published extensively on issues related to firearms, policing, federal crime prevention efforts, research methods, juvenile delinquency, and other topics. Dr. Koper has served as a lead or senior-level investigator for numerous projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, including Congressionally-mandated assessments of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban and the federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. He is also the co-creator of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool used by organizations including the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Policing Improvement Agency of the United Kingdom for visualizing research results on police effectiveness and translating those results for practitioners and policymakers. Dr. Koper is a former scholar-in-residence of the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn (a center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System)
Jens Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He also serves as a non-resident senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and co-director of the NBER's working group on the economics of crime. His research focuses on social policy, particularly in the areas of urban poverty, education, crime, and housing policy.
Ed McGarrell is Director and Professor of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Since 2002 he has led an MSU team that has served as the national research partner for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program. This has involved research on gun, gang, and drug market related violent crime. Dr.McGarrell previously served as the co-director of the Washington State Institute for Community Policing and directed the Crime Control Policy Institute that was a partnership between Indiana University, the Hudson Institute, and the City of Indianapolis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
Glenn Pierce, Ph.D., is currently the Acting Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy and Principal Research Scientist for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. At Northeastern University he has also served as Director of Strategic Planning and Research for Information Services, Director of Academic Computing, and Director for the Center Applied Social Research. Dr. Pierce has conducted research on a broad range of social and economic issues and has obtained funding for his research from a variety of agencies including the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the National Science Foundation. His most recent research has focused on crime and firearms violence and on criminal justice information and intelligence systems. As Director of Academic Computing he oversaw the implementation of the Northeastern University's university-wide computer network, the development of a centralized help service, and university-wide delivery of software applications and other network services.
Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH is Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and Deputy Director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has also been a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy since 1992. Dr. Webster has published articles on the effects of firearm policies, youth gun acquisition and carrying, the prevention of gun violence, intimate partner violence, and adolescent violence prevention. He has studied the effects of a variety of violence prevention interventions including state firearm policies, community programs to interrupt violence and change social norms, public education and advocacy campaigns, and school-based curricula. Dr. Webster teaches violence prevention and research methods for health policy. He also directs the Injury Control Certificate Program at Johns Hopkins.
Charles Wellford is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Wellford has been named a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) "in recognition of extraordinary service to the National Academies in his role as advisor to the nation in matters of science, engineering, and health." He was the first criminologist to receive this honor. Dr. Wellford served for six years as chair of the NAS Committee on Law and Justices. The author of numerous publications on criminal justice issues, Dr. Wellford's most recent research has focused on the determinants of sentencing, and the correlates of homicide clearance.
Dr. Wintemute is founding director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, and is professor of emergency medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine. His research focuses on the nature and prevention of violence and on the development of effective violence prevention measures. Selected studies include assessments of risk for criminal activity, homicide, and suicide among legal purchasers of handguns, evaluations of the effectiveness of denying handgun purchase to felons and violent misdemeanants, in-depth studies of firearms dealers who are disproportionate sources of crime guns, and the first empirical study of gun shows.
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