Daniel S. Nagin

Biosketch

Daniel S. Nagin is Lester Hamburg University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Law Fellow. He is an elected Fellow or Member of the American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Academy of Arts and Science, and (US) National Academy of Sciences. He is also recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Edwin H Sutherland Award in 2006 and August Volmer Award in 2025, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2014, Carnegie Mellon University’s Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award in 2016 and the National Academy of Science Award for Scientific Reviewing in 2017 and 2021 President of the American Society of Criminology.

Research Interests

His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in such diverse outlets as the American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Sociology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Child Development, Demography, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review, Crime and Justice Annual Review, Operations Research, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, and Stanford Law Review. He is also the author of Group-based Modeling of Development (Harvard University Press, 2005) and chaired and co-edited the report of the (US) National Academy of Science’s Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty.