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Crime / Justice

To contact these experts, please call the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 261-5709
or email publicaffairs@urban.org.

William Adams, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Federal sentencing; federal criminal justice policy; crime statistics.

Martha Burt, Center on Labor, Human Services, & Population.

Areas of expertise: Domestic violence/violence against women; adolescents; homelessness; mental health; social services integration.

David Hayeslip, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Community Policing; school safety; gangs.

Nancy La Vigne, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Prisoner reentry, crime prevention; criminal justice policy; crime statistics; policing; prisoner reentry; spatial analysis of crime.

John Roman, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Criminal courts and legal process; criminal justice policy; economics of crime; substance abuse; forensics, juvenile justice.

Shelli Rossman, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Community efforts against crime; reentry, delinquency prevention; performance measurement; social services integration.

Julie Samuels, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Criminal justice policy; federal justice system; crime statistics.

Amy Solomon, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Prisoner reentry, criminal justice policy, community efforts against crime; corrections, incarceration, and prisoners.

Janine Zweig, Justice Policy Center.

Areas of expertise: Crime victims (sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual violence in prisons); victim service and criminal justice response to sexual assault and intimate partner violence; prisoner reentry and employment; substance abuse; adolescence and young adulthood.