AEC Fellows: Edmund F. McGarrell

Edmund F. McGarrell, Ph.D. Michigan State University Email: mcgarrel@msu.edu

Edmund F. McGarrell is Director and Professor of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). McGarrell co-chairs MSU’s interdisciplinary and cross-college Risk Research Initiative. He previously was a faculty member at Indiana University, where he served as chair of the Department of Criminal Justice from 1996-2000, and at Washington State University. He previously served as the Co-Director of the Washington State Institute for Community Oriented Policing and Director of the Crime Control Policy Center that involved a partnership between the Hudson Institute, Indiana University, and the City of Indianapolis to link research to community and problem-oriented policing strategies. McGarrell’s research interests are in the area of communities and crime. He is the Principal Investigator of an initiative sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Assistance whereby the School of Criminal Justice is the national research team for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). PSN is a major Department of Justice program intended to reduce firearms violence in the United States. The initial research has been extended to an evaluation of gang violence reduction and drug market violence reduction initiatives. He has conducted several long-term research projects including an experiment on the use of restorative justice conferences as an alternative response to juvenile crime and a strategic problem solving initiative to reduce homicide and firearms violence. Additional research has included quasi-experiments on the impact of community policing strategies in public housing and on the impact of directed police patrol on gun violence. McGarrell’s recent articles have appeared in British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Policing, and Justice Quarterly. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, private foundations, industry, and state and local agencies. He received his B.A. from Mansfield University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York.

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