Biographical Sketch for Jack Riley
K. Jack Riley was appointed Director of RAND Public Safety and Justice in September, 1999. RAND Public Safety and Justice includes centers on sentencing and corrections; violence prevention; and drug policy research. Jack leads projects on gun violence, gun markets, terrorism, and criminal justice reforms such as Proposition 36. Jack is the founding co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Prevention of Violence, which is a non-profit organization that integrates RAND’s expertise in analysis and program development with the California Hospital’s expertise in service delivery and community enrichment. He currently serves as principal investigator on a project funded by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to analyze the patterns found from tracing guns recovered from crime scenes and to assist law enforcement with designing effective illegal gun market disruption strategies. His recent publications include: From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a "Pulling Levers" Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio (NIJ, 2002); California’s Vulnerability to Terrorism, (RAND, forthcoming); Drugs and Homicide: A Tale of Six Cities, (Homicide Studies, 1998); and Homicide in Eight US Cities: Trends, Context and Policy Implications (NIJ, 1997). From 1995 to 1999, Jack was with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) where, from 1996 to 1999, he directed the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program. Jack received his BA (economics and Russian) from the University of Michigan in 1986; his MS (foreign service) from Georgetown in 1988; and his PhD from the RAND Graduate School (public policy) in 1993.