Alan Curtis (criminologist)

Alan Curtis is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Eisenhower Foundation. [http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org] This private sector organization continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission) (1967-68) and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1968-69).

Education and Positions

Dr. Curtis has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Economics from theUniversity of London and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.

*1977 to 1981--Executive Director of President Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Group, Urban Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Administrator of the Federal Urban Initiatives Anti-Crime Program (Carter’s administration) ,

*197x-1977 - Co-Director of the Crimes of Violence Task Force (Johnson administration)

Dr. Curtis has served on many Boards and advisory committees, including Independent World Television, Partners for Democratic Change, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National African American Male Collaboration and the Congressional Human Rights Foundation.

Publications

Books written

*Violence, Race and Culture, published by D.C. Heath
*Youth Investment and Community Reconstruction, the Tenth Anniversary Report of the Eisenhower Foundation (with Elliott Currie)
*"Investing in Children and Youth," the Foundation’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary update of the Kerner Riot Commission
*"The Millennium Breach: Richer, Poorer, and Racially Apart," (Thirtieth Anniversary update of the Kerner Riot Commission)
*"Youth Investment and Police Mentoring"
*"To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility, the Foundation’s Thirtieth Anniversary Update of the National Violence Commission."

Books edited

*"Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad", Rowman & Littlefield (2004) [http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php]
*"American Violence and Public Policy," Yale University Press
* "Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States" (with Fred R. Harris) Rowman & Littlefield

References

External links

*Model programs for youth development, crime prevention, public school reform, high school drop out prevention, GED acquisition, job training, job placement and the reintegration of ex-offenders (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/replicating.php)
*http:www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/Media%20Forum%20Bios.pdf
*Eisenhower Foundation Web Site www.eisenhowerfoundation.org (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/index.php)
* Kerner Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission), (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/WashPostKernerProphecyMar1.pdf) (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/BostonSunGlobeKernerReport30.Mar1.pdf)
* Milton S. Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Eisenhower)
* Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php)