CURRICULUM VITAE. Crime over the life course, the history of criminology, and crime and public policy

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1 February 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE John H. Laub Distinguished University Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 2220 LeFrak Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD Tel: (301) Fax: (301) Note: I served as the Director of the National Institute of Justice from July 22, 2010 to January 4, The National Institute of Justice is the research, development, and evaluation arm in the Office of Justice Programs in the Department of Justice. The position of Director is a presidential appointment with confirmation by the United States Senate. On October 5, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated me for this position. My confirmation hearing with the Judiciary Committee took place on November 18, 2009 and I was confirmed by the Senate on June 22, I was sworn in as the Director of NIJ on July 22, During my tenure, I made more than 100 presentations, including briefings for the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and the Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice, the Office of Management and Budget, the President s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and House and Senate Staff. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Crime over the life course, the history of criminology, and crime and public policy EDUCATION: Ph.D., 1980, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York M.A., 1976, School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany B.A., 1975, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Major: Criminal Justice, Minor: History SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Distinguished University Professor, 1/08 to the present University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor, 8/98 to 12/07 University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 1

2 Professor, 7/91 to 6/98 Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS: The 2014 University of Illinois Alumni Achievement Award, the University of Illinois Alumni Association, October 10, The Shirley M. Buttrick Lectureship in Social Policy, Jane Addams College of Social Work and the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, A Tale of Two Eras: A Reconsideration of Turning Points and Pathways Out of Crime, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 9, John H. Laub. Keynote Speaker, Northeastern University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Class of 2013, Senior Celebration, May 1, The Hans W. Mattick Award, Center for Research in Law and Justice and the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 19, The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, Swedish Ministry of Justice, award ceremony June 14, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, , University of Maryland, College Park Edwin H. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology, November, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Harvard University Press, 2003, recipient of the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Award for Distinguished Book from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, August, Excellence in Arts and Letters Award, The University at Albany Alumni Association, June 3, Invited keynote address, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, Second International Conference on Crime and Its Control, Taipei, Taiwan, April 22, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Harvard University Press, 2003, recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Harvard University Press, 2003, recipient of the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, November,

3 The Annual Lecture of the One Plus One Foundation at the Royal Institution, London, England, Turning Lives Around: Boys in Trouble and How They Age, January 15, President, American Society of Criminology, November, The Beto Chair Lecturer, Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, February 7-10, The Distinguished Wilson Abernethy Lecture, Institute for Human Development, Life Course, and Aging, University of Toronto, "Crime and the Later Life Course: A 50 Year Follow-up of 500 Juvenile Offenders," December 10, Distinguished Alumni Award, , School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, November, Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, November, Vice President, American Society of Criminology, November, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, Harvard University Press, 1993, recipient of the Albert J. Reiss Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, August, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, Harvard University Press, 1993, recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, Harvard University Press, 1993, recipient of the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, November, SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES: Member, Scholars Strategy Network, Harvard University, 5/14 to the present. Editorial Board, Translational Criminology, Springer Briefs in Criminology, 1/14 to the present. Member, University of Chicago Crime Lab Advisory Committee, 12/13 to the present. Consultant, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and Their Partners, Research Triangle Institute, 1/08 to 7/10, 12/13 to the present. Member, The Policy Roundtable of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, The National Academies of Science, 9/13 to the present. 3

4 Visiting Scholar, 9/05 to 7/10 The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Member, Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council, 8/02 to 12/08. Co-Principal Investigator, 10/08 to 7/10 Pathways to Desistance: Special Projects, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency. Faculty Associate, 8/01 to 8/06 Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Affiliated Scholar, 7/00 to 6/05 The Henry A. Murray Center, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Co-Principal Investigator, 7/01 to 12/02 The Aftermath of Incarceration in the Lives of Disadvantaged Men: A 50-Year Follow-Up Study, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Fellow, 7/99 to 6/00 The Henry A. Murray Center, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Research Fellow, 7/96 to 9/97 The Study of Adult Development under the direction of Dr. George E. Vaillant, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Visiting Scholar, 1/88 to 6/99 The Henry A. Murray Center, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA. Editor, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 7/91 to 9/96. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: A. Books/Edited Books: John H. Laub, Committee Member, Community Supervision and Desistance From Crime, Parole, Desistance from Crime, and Community Integration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub, special issue editors. Developmental Criminology and Its Discontents: Trajectories of Crime from Childhood to Old Age. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 602, November

5 John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. Harvard University Press, Paperback Edition, John H. Laub. The Craft of Criminology: Papers by Travis Hirschi. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by John H. Laub. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, Joan McCord and John H. Laub, editors. Contemporary Masters in Criminology. New York: Plenum Publishing Company, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Paperback Edition, John H. Laub. Criminology in the Making: An Oral History. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, B. Journal Articles, Magazine Articles, Newsletters, and Other Outlets: John H. Laub. Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward, with support from the William T. Grant Foundation. This paper is part of the Foundation s Inequality Paper Series, December, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Crime and Turning Points Across the Life Course. Scholars Strategy Network, Harvard University, June John H. Laub. Moving the National Institute of Justice Forward: July 2010 thru December Crime, Law, and Deviance News, Newsletter of the Crime, Law, and Deviance section of the American Sociological Association, Spring/Summer John H. Laub. Translational Criminology. Translational Criminology, Fall, 2012, pp John H. Laub. Nurturing the Journal of Quantitative Criminology Through Late Childhood: Retrospective Memories (Distorted?) From a Former Editor. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2010, pp David S. Kirk and John H. Laub. Neighborhood Change and Crime in the Modern Metropolis. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Vol. 39, 2010, pp Bianca E. Bersani, Paul Nieuwbeerta, and John H. Laub. Predicting Trajectories of Offending over the Life Course: Findings from a Dutch Conviction Cohort. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2009, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2009, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. A Life-Course Theory and Long-Term Project on Trajectories of Crime. Special Issue on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology in The Journal of Criminology and Penal Reform (Monatsschrift), 2009, Volume 2/3, pp

6 Bianca E. Bersani, John H. Laub, and Paul Nieuwbeerta. Marriage and Desistance from Crime in the Netherlands: Do Gender and Socio-Historical Context Matter? Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2009, pp John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Glen Elder s Influence on Life-Course Criminology: Serendipity and Cross-Disciplinary Fertilization. Special issue of Research in Human Development, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2008, pp Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub, and Christopher Wimer. Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within-individual Causal Effects. Criminology, 44, No. 3, 2006, pp John H. Laub. Edwin H. Sutherland and the Michael-Adler Report: Searching for the Soul of Criminology 70 Years Later. The 2005 Sutherland Award Address. Criminology, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2006, pp John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson, and Gary A. Sweeten. Assessing Sampson and Laub s Life- Course Theory of Crime. Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory, Advances in Criminological Theory (Volume 15), edited by Francis T. Cullen, John Paul Wright, and Kristie R. Blevins. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Seductions of Method: Rejoinder to Nagin and Tremblay s Developmental Trajectory Groups: Fact or Fiction? Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. When Prediction Fails: From Crime-Prone Boys to Heterogeneity in Adulthood. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 602, 2005, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. A Life-Course View of The Development of Crime. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 602, 2005, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology. In Integrated Developmental and Life Course Theories of Offending, Advances in Criminological Theory (Volume 14), edited by David P. Farrington. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005, pp Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub, and Elaine P. Eggleston. On the Robustness and Validity of Groups. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2004, pp Elaine P. Eggleston, John H. Laub, and Robert J. Sampson. Methodological Sensitivities to Latent Class Analysis of Long-Term Criminal Trajectories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2004, pp John H. Laub. The Life Course of Criminology in the United States -- The American Society of Criminology 2003 Presidential Address. Criminology, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2004, pp

7 John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Strategies for Bridging the Quantitative and Qualitative Divide: Studying Crime Over the Life Course. Research in Human Development, Vol. 1, Nos. 1&2, 2004, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Life-Course Desisters? Trajectories of Crime Among Delinquent Boys Followed to Age 70. Criminology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2003, pp Philip J. Cook and John H. Laub. After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 29, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "Understanding Desistance From Crime." Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 28, edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp John H. Laub and George E. Vaillant. "Delinquency and Mortality: A Fifty Year Follow-up Study of 1,000 Delinquent and Nondelinquent Boys." American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 157, No. 1, 2000, pp Philip J. Cook and John H. Laub. "The Unprecedented Epidemic in Youth Violence." Youth Violence, Crime and Justice, A Review of Research, Volume 24, edited by Michael Tonry and Mark H. Moore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp John H. Laub, Daniel S. Nagin, and Robert J. Sampson. "Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending: Good Marriages and the Desistance Process." American Sociological Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, 1998, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. "Socioeconomic Achievement in the Life Course of Disadvantaged Men: Military Service as a Turning Point, Circa " American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, 1996, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. "Urban Poverty and the Family Context of Delinquency: A New Look at Structure and Process in a Classic Study." Child Development, Vol. 65, No. 2, 1994, pp Special Issue on Children and Poverty, Guest Editors: Aletha C. Huston, Cynthia T. Garcia Coll, and Vonnie C. McLoyd. John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "Turning Points in the Life Course: Why Change Matters to the Study of Crime." Criminology, Vol. 31, No.3, 1993, pp Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. "Crime and Deviance in the Life Course." Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 18, 1992, pp John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "The Sutherland-Glueck Debate: On the Sociology of Criminological Knowledge" American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 96, No. 6, 1991, pp

8 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. "Crime and Deviance Over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds" American Sociological Review, Vol. 55, No. 5, 1990, pp C. Book Chapters: John H. Laub. Life Course Research and the Shaping of Public Policy. Forthcoming in Handbook of the Life Course: Volume II, Michael Shanahan, Jeylan Mortimer, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Springer, John H. Laub, Zachary R. Rowan, and Robert J. Sampson. The Status of the Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, edited by David P. Farrington, Lila Kazemian, and Alex R. Piquero, Oxford University Press, John H. Laub and Sarah L. Boonstoppel. Understanding Desistance from Juvenile Offending: Challenges and Opportunities. Pp in The Oxford Handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice, edited by Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop, Oxford University Press, Elaine Eggleston Doherty, John H. Laub, and Robert J. Sampson. Using Group-Based Trajectories in Life-Course Criminology. Pp in The Craft of Life Course Research, edited by Glen Elder and Janet Giele, Guilford Press, Christopher Wimer, Robert J. Sampson, and John H. Laub. A New Approach to Estimating Time-Varying Causes and Outcomes, with Application to Incarceration and Crime. Pp in Applied Data Analytic Techniques for Turning Points Research, edited by Patricia Cohen, New York: Routledge, Janet L. Lauritsen and John H. Laub. "Understanding the Link Between Victimization and Offending: New Reflections on an Old Idea. Pp in Surveying Crime in the 21 st Century: Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the British Crime Survey, edited by Mike Hough and Mike Maxfield. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press and Cullompton, Devon, UK, Willan, John H. Laub, Elaine Eggleston Doherty, and Robert J. Sampson. Social Control and Adolescent Development: A View from Life-Course Criminology. Pp in Approaches to Positive Youth Development, edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen and Richard M. Lerner. London, U.K.: Sage Publications, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Coming of Age in Wartime: How World War II and the Korean War Changed Lives. Pp in Historical Influences on Lives and Aging, edited by K. Warner Schaie and Glen H. Elder, Jr. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Leana Allen Bouffard and John H. Laub. Jail or the Army: Does Military Service Facilitate Desistance? Pp in After Crime and Punishment: Ex-Offender Reintegration and Desistance From Crime, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. London, UK: Willan Publications,

9 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. Desistance from Crime over the Life Course. Pp in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan. New York, Plenum/Kluwer, John H. Laub. Comment on Disarming Batterers: The Impact of Domestic Violence Firearm Laws by Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor and James A. Mercy. Pp in Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence, edited by Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, John H. Laub. A Century of Delinquency Research and Delinquency Theory. Pp in A Century of Juvenile Justice, edited by Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, David S. Tanenhaus, and Bernadine Dohrn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck s Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency Study: The Lives of 1,000 Boston Men in the Twentieth Century. Pp in Looking At Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century, edited by Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Anne Colby. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson, and Leana C. Allen. "Explaining Crime Over the Life Course: Toward A Theory of Age-Graded Informal Social Control." Pp in Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory, edited by Raymond Paternoster and Ronet Bachman. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company, John H. Laub. "Alterations in the Opportunity Structure: A Criminological Perspective." Pp in Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future? edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, and Michael J. Shanahan. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, John H. Laub and Janet L. Lauritsen. "The Interdependence of School Violence With Neighborhood and Family Conditions." Pp in Schools and Violence, edited by Delbert Elliott, Beatrix Hamburg, and Kirk Williams. New York: Cambridge University Press, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "The Long-Term Reach of Adolescent Competence: Socioeconomic Achievement in the Lives of Disadvantaged Men." Pp in Competence and Character Through Life, edited by Anne Colby, Jacquelyn James, and Daniel Hart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data." Pp in Methods of Life Course Research, edited by Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder, Jr. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Darnell F. Hawkins, John H. Laub, and Janet L. Lauritsen. "Race and Ethnicity and Serious Juvenile Offending." Pp in Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions, edited by Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,

10 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub. "A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency." Pp in Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency: Advances in Criminological Theory (Volume 7), edited by Terence P. Thornberry. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. "Crime and Context in the Lives of 1,000 Boston Men, Circa " Pp in Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle, Volume 4: Delinquency and Disrepute in the Life Course: Contextual and Dynamic Analyses, edited by Zena Smith Blau and John Hagan. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,