Glenn Pierce

Position: Principal Research Scientist
Degree(s):

B.A., Bates College, 1967, Sociology
M.A., Northeastern University, 1971, Sociology
Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1989, Sociology

Professional Overview:
Glenn Pierce, Ph.D., is currently the Acting Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy and Principal Research Scientist for the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. At Northeastern University he has also served as Director of Strategic Planning and Research for Information Services, Director of Academic Computing, and Director for the Center Applied Social Research. Dr. Pierce has conducted research on a broad range of social and economic issues and has obtained funding for his research from a variety of agencies including the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the National Science Foundation. His most recent research has focused on crime and firearms violence and on criminal justice information and intelligence systems. As Director of Academic Computing he oversaw the implementation of the Northeastern University’s university-wide computer network, the development of a centralized help service, and university-wide delivery of software applications and other network services.

Phone: 617.373.3702
Office: 435 Cushing Hall
Email: g.pierce@neu.edu
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Background:

2004-present Acting Director, Institute for Security and Criminal Justice Policy College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
2000-Present Principal Research Scientist, Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
1999-2000 Director, IS - Strategic Planning and Research, Northeastern University
1991-1999 Director, Division of Academic Computing, Northeastern University
1978-1988 Associate Director, Center for Applied Social Research, Northeastern University

Recent Publications:

“Monitoring Death Sentencing Decisions: Challenges and Barriers to Equity” (with Michael Radelet) Human Rights. American Bar Association (in press)
“Small Arms and Light Weapons Trafficking: Creating an Assessment Framework from the U.S. Experience,” (with Timothy Gildea) The Nonproliferation Review. 14 (1) March 2007.
“The Criminal Purchase of Firearm Ammunition” (with George Tita, Anthony Braga, and Greg Ridgeway) Injury Prevention, October 2006 12: 308-311. doi:10.1136/ip.2006.013052
“Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: the Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of New Handguns to Criminals,” (with Anthony Braga) Criminology & Public Policy. November 4 (4) 2005.
“The Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing for California Homicides, 1990-99,” (with Michael Radelet). Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 46 (1) 2005.
“Closing the Digital Divide: Understanding Racial, Ethnic, Social Class, Gender and Geographic Disparities in Internet Use Among School Age Children in the United States,” (with Paul Cleary and Eileen Trauth). Universal Access in the Information Society, International Journal. , 4 (4) 2005.
“Understanding and Preventing Gang Violence: Problem Analysis and Response Development in Lowell, Massachusetts,” (with Anthony Braga and Jack McDevitt). Police Quarterly (2005).
“Linking Crime Guns: The Impact of Ballistics Imagining Technology on the Productivity of the Boston Police Department’s ballistics Unit,” (with Anthony Braga) Journal of Forensic Science, 49 (4) 701-706, July 2004.
“The Characteristics and Dynamics of Illegal Firearms Markets: Implications for a Supply-side Enforcement Strategy (with Anthony Braga, Raymond Hyatt and Christopher Koper) Justice Quarterly, 21 (2) 391-422, June 2004.
Race, Region, and Death Sentencing in Illinois, 1988-1997. (with Michael Radelet), Oregon Law Review, 81 (1): 39-96, Spring 2002. Reprinted in Pp. 245-304 in Austin Sarat (ed.), The Death Penalty, Vol. II. Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
“Urban Neighborhood Information Systems: Crime Prevention and Control Applications” (with April Pattavina and Alan Saiz) in Urban Technology Review, April 2002.
"Evaluation of a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Education: Effects on Student Behavior" (with Alice Hausman and LeBaron Briggs), Journal of Adolescent Health, 19: 104-110, 1996.
"Reexamining Social Disorganization Theory Using Calls to the Police As A Measure of Crime" (with Barbara D. Warner), Criminology, November, 1993.
“Choosing Those Who Will Die: Race And The Death Penalty in Florida” (with Michael L. Radelet), ¬Florida Law Review, Vol. 43, Number 1, January, 1991.
“The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics” (with Michael L. Radelet), New York University, Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. XVIII, Number 3, 1990-1991.
"Day Reporting Centers: An Analysis of client Characteristics and Program Effectiveness" (with Jack McDevitt and Robyn Miliano), IARCA Journal, March, 1990.
"How Flexible Our Civil Commitment Statutes" (with William Fisher and Paul Appelbaum), Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 39: 711 744, 1988.
"The Impact of Public Policy and Publicity on Admissions to State Mental Health Hospitals" (with Mary Durham and William Fisher), The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 11(1):41 66, Spring 1986.
"Civil Commitment Legislation and the Utilization of Mental Health Facilities" (with Mary Durham), The Annals AAPSS, 484:42 55, March 1986.
"Civil Commitment Reform: Context and Consequences" (with William Fisher), Psychiatric Quarterly, 57: 217 223, 1985.
"The Impact of Broadened Civil Commitment Laws on Length of Stay in a State Mental Health Hospital" (with Mary Durham and William Fisher), Law Medicine and Health Care, 13(6):290 296, December 1985.
"Race and Prosecutorial Discretion in Criminal Homicide Cases" (with Michael Radelet), Law and Society, 19(4):589 621, 1985. Reprinted in Law and Society Reader, Richard Abel, ed.1995.
"The Impact of Change in Civil Commitment Legislation on Admission to State Mental Health Facilities" (with Mary Durham and William Fisher), American Journal of Psychiatry 142(1):104 107, 1985.
"Police Involvement and Influence in Involuntary Civil Commitment" (with Mary Durham and Harold Carr), Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 35(6):580-584, 1984.
"Impact of Raising the Legal Drinking Age from 18 to 20" (with Ralph Hingson, etal.), American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 78, No. 1, 1983.
"Legislative Policy and Resource Allocation in Involuntary Civil Commitment" (with Mary Durham and William Fisher in Julius Roth (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, Inc., 1983.
"The Bartley Fox Gun Law's Short Term Impact on Crime in Boston" (with William J. Bowers), The Annals AAPSS, Vol. 455, May 1981. Reprinted in Economics of Crimie: A Reader. Neil Alper and Darell Hellman, Editors. 1988, Needham, MA: Ginn Press.
"Massachusetts’ Mandatory Minimum Sentence Gun Law: Enforcement, Prosecution, and Defense Impact" (with David Rossman, Paul Froyd, William J. Bowers, John McDevitt), Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 150 163, March-April 1980.
"Deterrence or Brutalization: What is the Effect of Executions?" (with William J. Bowers), Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 453 484, October 1980. Reprinted in Economics of Crimie: A Reader. Neil Alper and Darell Hellman, Editors. 1988, Needham, MA: Ginn Press and reprinted in Readings: Criminal Justice. Volume III. George S. Bridges, Editor. 1996.
"The Illusion of Deterrence in Isaac Ehrlich's Research on Capital Punishment" (with William J. Bowers), Yale Law Journal 85 (December 1975), pp. 187 208. Reprinted in Hugo A. Bedau and Chester Pierce, (eds.) Capital Punishment, AMS Press, New York, 1976. Reprinted in R.F. Boruch et al. (eds.), Reanalyzing Program Evaluations, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1981.

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