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Contact: Carnegie Mellon Professor Daniel Nagin Wins Edward H. Sutherland Award
Daniel Nagin, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, was named the 2006 recipient of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award.
PITTSBURGH—Daniel Nagin, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor of Public Policy and Statistics in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, was named the 2006 recipient of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award. The award, established in 1960 by the American Society of Criminology, recognizes outstanding contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law or justice.
The award, which is the society's highest honor, was given to Nagin for his innovative research on the evolution of criminal behavior and for his development of related statistical methods. For more than a decade, Nagin and his collaborators have studied the developmental origins of violence. His research challenges the conventional wisdom that violence is a behavior learned during adolescence. Instead it shows that developmental origins of violence can be traced to the earliest stages of life. As part of this research program, Nagin has developed innovative statistical methods for analyzing developmental trajectories of human behavior that are laid out in his book, "Group-Based Modeling of Development" (Harvard University Press, 2005). For more than two decades Nagin has also been a leading contributor to research on the effect of criminal penalties on crime rates.
Nagin will receive the award in November at the American Society of Criminology meeting, where he will deliver the plenary address.
About the Heinz School: The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management is a vibrant center for the study of urban and social issues that impact society. Founded in 1968 at a time when the problems of society burst into public view in the form of violent urban unrest, the school set as its purpose an aggressive effort to understand the causes of critical social problems and to train men and women through master's and doctor's programs to use new knowledge and technology to bring about positive change.
About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon is a private research university with a distinctive mix of programs in computer science, robotics, engineering, the sciences, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions to real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 140-acre campus, Carnegie Mellon is also distinctive among leading research universities because of world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. For more information, visit www.cmu.edu.
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Alfred Blumstein, the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, former dean of the Heinz School and past recipient of the Sutherland Award, praised Nagin's work. "What Dan has developed is a creative and rigorous method for clustering many individual trajectories into a limited number of group trajectories. These methods are of important interest to criminologists as well as to psychologists, medical researchers, urban geographers and many other disciplines. Dan is extremely well deserving of the Sutherland Award."