Alfred Blumstein has extensive experience in both research and policy within the criminal justice system. In 1966-67, Dr. Blumstein served on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice as Director of its Task Force on Science and Technology. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Law and Administration of Justice from its founding in 1975 until 1986 and is currently a member. He served as Chair of that Committee between 1979 and 1984, and has chaired the Committee's panels on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative Effects, Sentencing Research, and Research on Criminal Careers. He was a member of the Academy's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education from 1994 to 2000. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.From 1986 to 1993, he was Dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.He is now the director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, a research program funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Blumstein served from 1979 to 1990 as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the state's criminal justice planning agency. He has also been a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing since 1986. Dr. Blumstein has degrees from Cornell University, including a Bachelor of Engineering Physics and a Ph.D. in Operations Research. His research over the past 20 years has covered many aspects of criminal justice, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence, and drug-enforcement policy.

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