Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
Nancy G. La Vigne
Nancy G. La Vigne is the dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. She has previously served as the director of the National Institute of Justice; special assistant to the assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs within the US Department of Justice; director of the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute; a senior research associate at the Urban Institute; the founding director of the Crime Mapping Research Center (since renamed the Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety program) at the National Institute of Justice; research director for the Texas sentencing commission, research fellow at the Police Executive Research Forum, and consultant to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Her research interests focus on criminal justice evaluation, prisoner reentry, policing, crime prevention, and the spatial analysis of crime and criminal behavior. She has published widely on these topics, appearing in a variety of scholarly journals and practitioner publications.
Dr. La Vigne holds a bachelor's degree from Smith College, a master's in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, and a doctorate from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.