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Tom Scott

Assistant Research Professor

College of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Law

Dr. Tom Scott is a social scientist who studies how to improve policing and prevent violent crime. He has contributed to several evaluations of local and national crime prevention programs, coordinated law enforcement agency assessments to improve agency violent crime responses, helped to expand and improve the National Incident-based Reporting System, and most recently collected original data to understand the barriers to victim and witness engagement in the criminal legal system. He has much experience working directly with law enforcement agencies and community organizations to reduce crime and improve the criminal legal system.

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PhD Program Director; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Carlos Cuevas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Kevin Drakulich

Associate Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; PhD Program Director; Director of Race and Justice Lab

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

James Alan Fox

Research Professor of Criminology

Natasha Frost

Associate Dean of Research; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice
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Jack Greene

Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Ineke Marshall

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Ramiro Martinez

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Nikos Passas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy

Simon Singer

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Jacob Stowell

Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Brandon Welsh

Dean's Professor of Criminology; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study; Director, Crime Prevention Lab
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Gregory Zimmerman

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master's Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Krista Larsen

Associate Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice