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William Bratton
1947 - Present (77 years)
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American law enforcement officer and businessman who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner . He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department . He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities – New York and Los Angeles.
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George L. Kelling
1935 - 2019 (84 years)
George Lee Kelling was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught at Northeastern University.
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Lawrence W. Sherman
1949 - Present (75 years)
Lawrence W. Sherman is an American experimental criminologist and police educator who is the founder of evidence-based policing. Sherman's use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention has led him to examine such wide-ranging issues as domestic violence, saturation patrol, gun violence, crack houses, and reintegrative shaming. He has collaborated with over 30 police and justice agencies around the world, and been credited as a key founder of the field of experimental criminology.
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David Weisburd
1954 - Present (70 years)
David L. Weisburd , is an Israeli/American criminologist who is well known for his research on crime and place, policing and white collar crime. Weisburd was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and was recently awarded the Israel Prize in Social Work and Criminological Research, considered the state's highest honor. Weisburd holds joint tenured appointments as Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. and Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Fa...
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David M. Kennedy
1958 - Present (66 years)
David M. Kennedy is a criminologist, professor, action researcher, and author specializing in crime prevention among inner city gangs, especially in the prevention of violent acts among street gangs. Kennedy developed the Operation Ceasefire group violence intervention in Boston in the 1990s and the High Point Model drug market intervention in High Point, North Carolina, in 2003, which have proven to reduce violence and eliminate overt drug markets in jurisdictions around the United States. He founded the National Network for Safe Communities in 2009 to support cities using these and related ...
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Raymond Paternoster
1952 - 2017 (65 years)
Raymond "Ray" Paternoster was an American criminologist who taught at the University of Maryland from 1982 until his death in 2017, spending some of this time as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice there.
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Mark Kleiman
1951 - 2019 (68 years)
Mark Albert Robert Kleiman was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy. A professor of public policy for many years at UCLA, Kleiman in 2015 became the director of the Crime and Justice Program at New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management. Kleiman was an expert in the field of crime and drug policy and authored several books in the field.
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Anthony Braga
1969 - Present (55 years)
Anthony Allan Braga is an American criminologist and the Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Braga is also the Director of the Crime and Justice Policy Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously held faculty and senior research positions at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Braga is a member of the federal monitor team overseeing the reforms to New York City Police Department policies, training, supervision, auditing, and handling of complaints and discipline regarding sto...
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Manuel Eisner
1959 - Present (65 years)
Manuel Eisner is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He researches the history of interpersonal violence, and has conducted a study on levels of homicide throughout Europe over a period of 800 years. His research has highlighted the ways in which cultural models of conduct of life, embedded in social institutions, have shaped patterns of daily behaviour among adolescent and young adult men, which in turn have influenced the likelihood of frictions leading to aggressive behaviour. He is also recognised f...
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Lorraine Mazerolle
1964 - Present (60 years)
Lorraine Green Mazerolle is an Australian criminologist and professor at the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, where she is also an affiliate professor at the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, as well as a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. She is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Academy of Experimental Criminology.
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Ronald Weitzer
1952 - Present (72 years)
Ronald Weitzer is an American sociologist specializing in criminology and a professor at George Washington University, known for his publications on police-minority relations and on the sex industry.
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Graeme Newman
1939 - Present (85 years)
Graeme R. Newman is an American scholar of criminal justice and Distinguished Teaching Professor at University at Albany. He is a recipient of J. Francis Finnegan Memorial Prize in Criminology. Newman is the vice president of Center for Problem Oriented Policing and pioneered the establishment of the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network. He is known for his research on crime prevention.
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Ken Pease
1943 - Present (81 years)
Kenneth George Pease is a British forensic psychologist and criminologist. He is a visiting professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London, a visiting professor at the University of Loughborough and an honorary visiting fellow at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester. Previous positions he has held include Head of School of Sociology and Social Policy at the Ulster Polytechnic from 1981 to 1983, professor of criminology at the University of Huddersfield , the University of Manchester , the head of the Home ...
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Jürgen Stock
1959 - Present (65 years)
Jürgen Stock is a German police officer and academic. He has served as secretary general of Interpol since November 7, 2014. Biography Stock was born on October 4, 1959, in Wetzlar, Germany. He joined the Kriminalpolizei in Hesse in 1978 and stayed on as an officer until 1992. Between 1992 and 1996 he went to the University of Giessen to occupy himself with scientific research in criminology. In 1996 he worked as a lawyer, before returning to the Bundeskriminalamt to become the deputy head of a unit combating economic crime. Stock became President of the University of Applied Police Science l...
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Richard A. Clarke
1950 - Present (74 years)
Richard Alan Clarke is an American national security expert, novelist, and former government official. He served as the Counterterrorism Czar for the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-Terrorism for the United States between 1998 and 2003.
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Graham Farrell
1967 - Present (57 years)
Graham Farrell is a British criminologist who is Professor of International and Comparative Criminology at the University of Leeds School of Law. Education and career Farrell received his BSc from the University of Surrey and his PhD from the University of Manchester. He worked at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminological Research before joining the United Nations in the 1990s. He then taught at Loughborough University and at Simon Fraser University, where he was appointed Professor in Environmental Criminology in 2013. He joined the University of Leeds in 2015.
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Geoffrey Alpert
1948 - Present (76 years)
Geoffrey Philip Alpert is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Education Alpert received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1969 and 1970, respectively. For one year he attended the University of Oregon School of Law. In 1975, he received his Ph.D. from Washington State University.
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Kim Jong Yang
1961 - Present (63 years)
Kim Jong Yang is a South Korean police officer and former President of Interpol. Prior to his Interpol career, Kim was Commissioner of Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the law enforcement agency for South Korea's most populous province. As a police chief, Kim took part in efforts to spread South Korean policing strategies to other nations, including the Philippines, through financial assistance and training programs.
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Todd Clear
1949 - Present (75 years)
Todd Ray Clear is an American criminologist and distinguished professor in the school of criminal justice at Rutgers University–Newark. Education Clear received his BA in sociology from Anderson University in 1971, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in criminal justice from the State University of New York, Albany in 1972 and 1977, respectively.
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Charles Moose
1953 - 2021 (68 years)
Charles Alexander Moose was an American author and police officer. He was best known for his role as being the primary official in charge of the efforts to apprehend the D.C. snipers in October 2002. During his law enforcement career, Moose served as the chief of police for Montgomery County, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon.
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Catrien Bijleveld
1958 - Present (66 years)
Catharina Christina Johanna Hermina "Catrien" Bijleveld is a Dutch criminologist. She is a professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since August 2014 she is director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.
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Stuart Henry
1949 - Present (75 years)
Stuart Henry is professor emeritus, Criminal justice and former director of the School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University . He has also been visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research from 2008 to 2013 and visiting research scholar in sociology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2017.
Go to ProfileMarc G. Gertz is an American criminologist and professor at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research includes an influential 1995 survey he conducted with his Florida State University colleague, Gary Kleck, on the frequency of defensive gun use.
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James Lynch
1949 - Present (75 years)
James Patrick Lynch is an American criminologist and professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Education Lynch graduated from Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1967, after which he received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Wesleyan University in 1971. He later received a masters' and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1975 and 1983, respectively.
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Ramiro Martinez Jr.
1962 - Present (62 years)
Ramiro Martinez Jr. is an American criminologist. He is a professor at Northeastern University, in both the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
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Menachem Amir
1930 - 2015 (85 years)
Menachem Amir is an Israeli criminologist. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the Benjamin Berger Chair Professor of Criminology until he retired in 1999. Amir received the Israel Prize from the Israeli government in 2003 for his work, one of the first two criminologists to do so alongside Shlomo Giora Shoham.
Go to ProfileGary A. Mauser is a Canadian criminologist and emeritus professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Education Mauser received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1970, both in psychology.
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Norman White
1953 - 2017 (64 years)
Norman Anthony White was an American criminologist who taught at Saint Louis University . Early life and education White was born on February 20, 1953, in New York City, where he grew up in public housing in upper Manhattan. He attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, where he received a bachelor's degree and a Master of Public Administration. He went on to receive another master's degree, followed by a doctorate, from the State University of New York at Albany.
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Paul Wilson
1941 - Present (83 years)
Paul Richard Wilson is a New Zealand-born Australian social scientist. He was convicted and jailed in 2016 for historical sex offences. Biography Wilson was born in New Zealand. He holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Canterbury, and an earned Ph.D. from the University of Queensland.
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Wild Bill Hickok
1837 - 1876 (39 years)
James Butler Hickok , better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation.
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