| Affiliation: | Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He received a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the prevention of delinquency and crime and economic analysis of prevention programs and policies. He is an author or editor of five books, including Evidence-Based Crime Prevention;(Routledge 2002, with Lawrence Sherman, David Farrington, and Doris MacKenzie), and was an editor of a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, entitled "What Works in Preventing Crime: Systematic Reviews of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research" (2001). Recent articles have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and British Journal of Criminology. David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He is director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development and co-investigator on the Pittsburgh Youth Study. He is also chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group, and is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law. He has received the Sellin-Glueck and Sutherland awards of the American Society of Criminology and the prize for distinguished scholarship of the American Sociological Association Criminology Section. He has published 24 books and about 350 papers on criminological and psychological topics. |
