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To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility Appendix 3
Sophie Body-Gendrot is Professor of Political Science and American Studies at the Sorbonne and at the Institute of Political Science in Paris. Her research focuses on comparative public policy, urban disorders, ethnic and racial issues and citizen participation. Among her books are Ville et Violence, The Social Control of Cities and The Urban Moment, edited with R. Beauregard. In 1998, with N. Le Guennec, she wrote a task force report on Urban Violence for the French Home Secretary. Abigail Caplovitz is a Leslie Glass Fellow at the School of Law, New York University. She has been a Summer Scholar and Student Fellow at the Institute for Judicial Administration at New York University. James P. Comer is Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center. Dr. Comer has been a researcher, consultant and advisor to programs serving children nationwide and internationally. He is the author of Waiting for A Miracle and Maggie's American Dream, and co-author of Raising Black Children. He has won numerous awards, most recently the 1996 Heinz Award for Service to Humanity. Dr. Comer was a contributor to the Task Force on Individual Acts of Violence on the National Violence Commission. Elliott Currie is Professor in the Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley and is affiliated with its Center for the Study of Law and Society. He is the author of many books, including Crime and Punishment in America and Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities and the Future. Dr. Currie was Assistant Director of the Task Force on Demonstrations, Protests and Group Violence on the National Violence Commission. Lynn A. Curtis is President of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation in Washington, DC. He was Executive Director of President Carter's interagency Urban and Regional Policy Group; served as Urban Policy Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; is the author, co-author or editor of 9 books; and was Co-Director of the Crimes of Violence Task Force of the National Violence Commission. Joy G. Dryfoos is an independent researcher and consultant supported by the Carnegie Corporation. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She has written extensively about adolescent behavior and programs and policies that work in families, schools and communities. Her books include Safe Passage: Making It Through Adolescence in A Risky Society; Full Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth and Families; and Adolescents-at-Risk: Prevalence and Prevention. Jeff Faux is President of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in Washington, DC. EPI is recognized internationally for its economic research and public education work. It analyzes economic trends from the perspective of people who work for a living. It was founded by Mr. Faux and several prominent economists in 1986. His latest book is The Party's Not Over: A New Vision for the Democrats. Shannon Frattaroli is a Kellogg Community Health Scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she is affiliated with the Center for Gun Policy and Research. Her work with the Center includes such topics as gun policy implementation, the epidemiology of gun injuries and deaths, and the development and evaluation of policies to restrict access to guns by people proscribed from purchasing guns. George Gerbner is the Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications at Temple University in Philadelphia. Before being awarded the Bell Atlantic Chair, Dr. Gerbner was Professor and Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, from 1964 through 1989. He was executive editor of the quarterly Journal of Communication and chair of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He founded the Cultural Environment Movement. Fred Graham is the Chief Anchor and Managing Editor of Court TV in New York City. He was previously Supreme Court Correspondent for the New York Times and Law Correspondent for CBS News. He is the author of The Self-Inflicted Wound, a book about the criminal law decisions of the Warren Court, and The Alias Program, about the Justice Department's witness protection program. Hugh Davis Graham is Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He was Co-Director of the Task Force on Historical and Comparative Perspectives of the National Violence Commission and co-editor of its 1969 report, Violence in America. He is author of The Civil Rights Era and Civil Rights and the Presidency. Fred R. Harris is a former member of the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma and now Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. He is Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation and was co-editor of Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race and Poverty in the United States. Professor Harris has authored 15 nonfiction books and is working on his second novel. Laura Harris is an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation and Executive Vice President of Americans for Indian Opportunity. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Policy Alternatives and was a consultant to President Clinton’s Initiative on Race. Vera Huang is a research specialist at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy at the School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. She has been working on projects on violence, juvenile justice, the death penalty and child welfare. Her work has concentrated on survey design, survey analyses, database management and other applied social science research. Paul A. Jargowsky is Associate Professor of Political Economy, School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas. His book Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios and the American City, is a comprehensive examination of poverty at the neighborhood level in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1970 and 1990. It received the Urban Affairs Association's Prize for the "Best Book on Urban Affairs Published in 1997 or 1998" and was chosen by Choice Magazine as "One of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1997." Robert W. McChesney is Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. McChesney is the author or editor of Rich Media, Poor Democracy; Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935; and, with Edward S. Herman, The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. Leila McDowell is co-founder of McKinney and McDowell Associates in Washington, DC, a media company with clients that have included the NAACP, National Institutes of Health, National Organization for Women, National Rainbow Coalition and TransAfrica. She has been a television and radio reporter, anchor and producer in New York City and other locations. Dora Nevares-Muniz is Professor of Law and Criminology at Inter-American University Law School, San Juan. She is the author of 5 books published in Puerto Rico, and coauthored with Marvin Wolfgang Juvenile Delinquency in Puerto Rico: The 1970 Birth Cohort Study, published in 1988. In the late 1980's she directed the revision of the Puerto Rico Penal Code. JoAnne Page has been the Executive Director of the Fortune Society in New York City since 1989. Ms. Page graduated from Yale Law School in 1980 and has been employed as a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society in New York City and as Director of Court programs at the Court Employment Project. She was a member of the National Criminal Justice Commission and currently serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation. Ms. Page frequently is interviewed on national television about criminal justice issues and has appeared in such diverse settings as CNN, Court TV and Geraldo. Rosalinda Rendon is Research Coordinator at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. She has been active in the social service field since 1980. She has supervised the operations of a shelter for abused woman and illegal immigrants and, more recently, has been involved in research and technical assistance projects at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. Jerome H. Skolnick is currently Adjunct Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at the School of Law, New York University. He retired in 1995 as Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for more than 30 years. For 10 years, he was Director of the University of California's Center for the Study of Law and Society. He is the author of numerous books and edited books. Dr. Skolnick was Director of the Task Force on Demonstrations, Protests and Group Violence on the National Violence. Stephen P. Teret is Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy Research. He is a pioneer in gun violence prevention policy, a prominent national expert, and the proponent of many innovative recommendations to reduce needless injuries and death. He is Professor of Health and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and holds joint appointments in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also is co-director of the Johns Hopkins joint degree program in Law and Public Health and Adjunct Professor of Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Neil Alan Weiner is Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. He was Senior Research Associate on the National Academy of Science's Panel on Understanding and Preventing Violence and a Visiting Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. His ongoing research interests include individual violent criminal careers, situations in which violence occurs and escalates, historical patterns in violent crime, and evaluation of juvenile justice and child welfare programs. Joseph F. West is a doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Health and Social Behavior. In 1999, he won the Albert Schwietzer "Reverence for Life Award" and the Harvard Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship.
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