Nationality American | ||
Education University of Massachusetts (B.A., 1991), Rutgers University (M.A., 1993; Ph.D., 1997), Harvard University (M.P.A., 2002) Thesis Solving violent crime problems: an evaluation of the Jersey City Police Department's pilot program to control violent places (1997) Notable awards International Association of Chiefs of Police's Community Policing Award and Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award (both in 2011), Joan McCord Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology (2014) Books Policing Problem Places: C, Problem‑oriented Policing and Crim, Police Innovation and Crim, Place Matters: Criminolo, Police Innovation: Contrasti Similar David Weisburd, Brandon C Welsh, Charlotte Gill | ||
Anthony Allan Braga (born 1969) is the Don M. Gottfredson Professor of Evidence-Based Criminology at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice.
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Education
Braga received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts in 1991, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He later received his M.P.A. from Harvard University in 2002.
Career
Braga worked as a research associate at Rutgers University's Center for Crime Prevention Studies from 1993 to 1995. He then began working at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a research associate, where he has been a senior research fellow since July 2010. Also in July 2010, he joined Rutgers again as a professor of criminal justice, and became the Don M. Gottfredson Professor of Evidence-Based Criminology there in September 2012.
Research
Braga's research focuses on multiple topics in the field of criminology, including reducing criminals' access to guns, reducing gang-relatead violence, and crime control hot spots. He has also designed a study on the effectiveness of police body-worn cameras. He has recommended that, to conduct this study, the New York Police Department put such cameras on some of its officers in 20 precincts and compare these officers to their counterparts in precincts where officers are not wearing cameras. His research has also found that hot-spot policing is effective at reducing the crime rate, and that Operation Ceasefire was associated with reductions in violence, but that this relationship may not be causal.
Honors and awards
Braga's work with the Boston Police Department on its Safe Street Teams program led to him receiving the International Association of Chiefs of Police's Community Policing Award and Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award, both in 2011. He later received the Joan McCord Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology in 2014.