Alfred Blumstein

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residence = United States
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fields = Operations Research
Criminology
Urban Systems
workplaces = Institute for Defense Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University

alma_mater = Cornell University

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Alfred Blumstein (born in 1930 in New York) is an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz School and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research.

Biography

Blumstein graduated with his bachelors degree and PhD from Cornell University and worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses before joining the Heinz School.

Blumstein directs the NSF-funded National Consortium for Violence Research at Carnegie Mellon and was Dean of the Heinz School from 1986-1993

He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Criminology.

Blumstein was president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1977-78, The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) in 1987-88 and in 1996 he was the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He was awarded the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology in 1998 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He also shares the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the highest award in the field. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

Work

Blumstein's research centers around modeling criminal careers, deterrence, prison population, transportation analysis, drug-enforcement policy, and he developed "lambda" in criminology as a measurement of an individual's offending frequency.

Publications

* 1968. "National program of research, development, test, and evaluation on law enforcement and criminal justice."
* 1970. "Systems analysis for social problems". Edited with Murray Kamrass and Armand B. Weiss.
* 1978. "Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Panel on Research on Deterrent and Incapacitative Effects. Deterrence and incapacitation : estimating the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates". Edited with Jacqueline Cohen and Daniel Nagin.
* 1983. "Research on sentencing : the search for reform". Edited with others.
* 1986. "Criminal careers and "career criminals". Edited with others.
* 2000. "Crime drop in America". Edited with Joel Wallman.
* 2007. "Key issues in criminal career research : new analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development". With Alex R. Piquero and David P. Farrington.

External links

* [http://www.criminologyprize.com/extra/pod/?id=15&module_instance=3&action=pod_show&navid=15 Alfred Blumstein Stockholm Prize bio]
* [http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/ab0q.html Alred Blumstein's Heinz School bio]
* [http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/jr000257d.pdf US Department of Justice article on Alfred Blumstein's contributions to criminology]