Faculty Public Service & Outreach

Faculty in the Penn’s Department of Criminology are actively engaged in collaborative research with a variety of agencies and organizations off campus. Many of these research projects provide opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students. 

Richard Berk [faculty profile]

1. The Los Angeles Police Department (to develop the next generation of COMPSTAT)
2. Mesa (Arizona) Police Department (to develop the next generation of COMPSTAT)
3. The Philadelphia Adult Probation and Parole Department (building new risk assessment tools to forecast which individuals under supervision are likely to commit a murder)
4. The Maryland Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention (evaluating the State's parole and probation risk assessment tools and procedures)
5. The Inter-America Tropical Tuna Commission (to determine what can be done to reduce the bycatch and overfishing)

William Laufer [faculty profile]

1. World Bank Institute, The World Bank Group
2. United Nations Global Compact
3. Institutional Integrity Department, Inter-American Development Bank
4. Center for Political Accountability
5. Hills Program on Governance, Center for Strategic International Studies

John MacDonald [faculty profile]

1. The Los Angeles Police Department (to identify the effect of local business improvement districts on community-level change and youth violence)
2. The Philadelphia Police Department (to develop a patrol officer allocation model for the efficient delivery of police services in neighborhoods)

Adrian Raine [faculty profile]

1. Mauritius, Africa (to assess the biosocial mechanisms involved in the parent-child transmission of antisocial behavior in children)
2. Pennsylvania Department of Health (focusing on biopsychological factors, to predict aggression in 11 -year-old community children and treat them using both nutritional and cognitive-behavioral intervention methods)
3. Los Angeles Schools (to undertake a longitudinal assessment of antisocial and aggressive behavior in nine-year-old twins)
4. Singapore (Using nutritional and social skills intervention on conduct disorder and hyperactivity, to treat children with clinically-significant antisocial behavior)
5. Nanjing,China (to investigate the role of brain impairments in violent offenders)
6. Hong Kong (to to consider the role dysfunctional brain systems in spouse abusers)
7. Hong Kong (to examine the etiology and treatment of aggression in schoolchildren)

Laurie Robinson [faculty profile]

1. Vera Institute of Justice (Chair of Board of Trustees)
2. Obama ’08 Campaign (Criminal justice outreach/policy)
3. Police Foundation (Research Committee liaison)
4. Forum on Crime & Justice (Educational programs on Capitol Hill to highlight state and local criminal justice innovations)
5. American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science & Public Policy (to address wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system)
6. American Society of Criminology Ad Hoc Policy Committee (to increase ASC’s visibility and impact in Washington)

Susan Sorenson [faculty profile]

1. The Philadelphia Women's Death Review Team (to better understand the violent deaths of women)
2. The Women's Law Project (to improve the process by which domestic violence victims obtain protection from abuse orders in Philadelphia)
3. The Law Enforcement Subcommittee of the Mayor's Task Force on Domestic Violence
4. The World Health Organization (to develop health indicators of violence against children in low- and middle-income countries)

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