Consulting

I provide balanced, thoughtful, and dispassionate analyses of complex questions and situations. In order to accomplish this task, I collect relevant information, understand the quality of that information, determine numerous possible explanations concerning the dynamics of the question or situation, and then present my analysis in as objective a manner as possible.

Types of work I have done:

My research expertise lies in the fields of:

  • policing/law enforcement
  • corrections
  • oppositional political terrorism
  • crime and criminal justice in Indian Country
  • international issues of crime, punishment, and political violence.

I also have expertise in the research process itself:

  • Developing solicitations for research
  • Managing the peer-review process
  • Reviewing grant applications
  • Selecting grants for funding
  • Managing funded grants.
  • Researching and writing affidavits for legal proceedings (esp. extradition related)
  • Reviewing papers for scholarly journals.
  • Reviewing reports for government agencies.
  • Providing editorial assessments to publishers of book proposals, unpublished manuscripts that are under review for contracting, books that are under consideration for revision, and book series.
  • Extradition-related research for international cases
  • Sentencing outcomes and mitigation
  • Investigative research

I have expertise in developing strategic plans for a variety of nonprofit organizations.

  • Working with diverse groups of stakeholders in organizations to develop a cohesive document that integrates competing perspectives and goals, at the same time providing recommendations to better utilize scarce resources in a rational fashion in order to accomplish each organization’s goals.

Clients I have worked for:

  • CSR
  • Gerson Lehrman Group
  • Westat
  • U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice
  • U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Department of Defense, Strategic Command
  • Maryland Department of Probation and Parole
  • Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
  • Intel Science
  • University of Baltimore, University wide
  • University of Baltimore, Office of the Provost
  • University of Baltimore, Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts
  • Washington Latin Charter School
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Longman
  • Prentice Hall
  • Roxbury
  • Rutgers University Press
  • Sage Publications
  • State University of New York Press
  • Temple University Press
  • University of Alberta Press
  • University of Minnesota Press
  • Wadsworth Publishers