J. Erik
Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and
Operations Research, The
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management;
Professor, Engineering
and Public Policy.
Methodologies
for public policy analysis with specific reference
to the criminal justice system, family planning, and
transportation systems.
B.Eng.Phys.
1951, Ph.D. (Operations Research) 1960, Cornell University.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1969 -.
Professor
Blumstein has had extensive experience in both research
and policy in the public sector. His interest in the
criminal justice system began with his service on
the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Justice in 1966-67, as Director
of its Task Force on Science and Technology. His research
has covered many aspects of the operation of the criminal
justice system, with special attention to prison populations
and sentencing, and has involved extensive research
of criminal careers.
Professor
Blumstein was a member of the National Academy of
Sciences Committee on Research on Law Enforcement
and the Administration of Justice from its founding
in 1975 until 1986. He served as Chairman of that
committee between 1979 and 1984, and has chaired the
committee's Panels on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative
Effects, on Sentencing Research, and on Research on
Criminal Careers.
Professor
Blumstein was President of the Operations Research
Society of America in 1977-78, and was awarded its
Kimball Medal "for service to the profession and the
society" in 1985. He was President of The Institute
of Management Sciences (TIMS) during 1987-88. In 1999,
he became President-Elect of the Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Professor
Blumstein is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology,
was the 1987 recipient of the Society's Sutherland
Award for research contributions, and was President
in 1991-92. Professor Blumstein is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.
Representative
Publications
Blumstein,
Alfred, "Crime Modeling" (2002) Operations
Research, vol. 50, no.1, Jan/Feb 2002 (one of
invited papers for special 50th Anniversary issue)
pp. 16-24.
Blumstein,
Alfred, and Joel Wallman (eds.).The Crime Drop
in America (2000). Cambridge University Press
Blumstein,
Alfred, "Prisons: A Policy Challenge" (2002)
in Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control
(James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia, eds.) ICS Press.
pp. 451-482.
Piquero,
Alex R., David P. Farrington, and Alfred Blumstein,
"The Criminal Career Paradigm" (2003) in
Crime & Justice, A Review of Research,
vol. 30, pp. 359-506
Blumstein,
Alfred, Frederick R. Rivara, and Richard Rosenfeld,
"The Rise and Decline of Homicide - and Why"
(2000), Annual Review of Public Health, vol.
21, pp 505-541.
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