Akiva Liberman

Senior Fellow

Akiva Liberman is a Senior Fellow in the Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute, which he joined in 2010. His primary interests concern juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, youth violence prevention, evaluation methods, and the conditions of effective program implementation. From 1999 to 2007 he oversaw much of extramural research concerning juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, in the Office of Research and Evaluation of the National Institute of Justice. From 2007 to 2010, he oversaw research on the effective implementation of effective drug treatment for criminal justice populations, in the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. His edited book The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research was published by Springer in 2008. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University.

Publications by topic:
Crime and Justice

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