Daniel Nagin

He is the co-editor of Criminology and Public Policy, chaired the National Research Council’s Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, and served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Political and Social Science and the recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Edwin H Sutherland Award in 2006, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2014, Carnegie Mellon University’s Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2015, and the National Academy of Science Award for Scientific Reviewing in 2017.

His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in such diverse outlets as the American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Sociology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Child Development, Demography, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review, Crime and Justice Annual Review, Operations Research, and Stanford Law Review. He is also the author of Group-based Modeling of Development (Harvard University Press, 2005).

Education

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, B.S. (Administrative and Managerial Sciences)

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, M.S. (Industrial Administration), 1971

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Ph.D. (Urban and Public Affairs), 1976

## Courses Taught

• 90-777 - Intermediate Statistical Methods
• 95-796 - Statistics for IT Managers