Jeffrey A. Roth Associate Director for Research Email: jar@sas.upenn.edu Complete CV here

Dr. Roth is associate director for research at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently principal investigator of one project to develop understanding of the juvenile crime drop that began in 1993 trends and another to help Philadelphia's Department of Human Services implement performance-based contracting for its foster care provider agencies. Previously, he directed the Congressionally mandated impact evaluation of the 1994 assault weapons ban, as well as studies of the Clinton Administration's COPS program to put 100,000 police officers on the street, Maryland's HotSpots Communities Program, Detroit's Handgun Intervention Program, youth violence in the District of Columbia, and Baltimore's Comprehensive Communities Program. Previously, as study director of the National Academy of Sciences panel on violence research, he co-edited the Academy's four-volume report Understanding and Preventing Violence. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University.