Joan McCord, Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University.  Dr. McCord was cochair of the National Academy of Sciences panel on Juvenile Crime:  Prevention, Treatment and Control.  Her research has focused on social environments that are conducive to various types of crimes and on the impacts of a variety of kinds of interventions designed to reduce delinquency.  Dr. McCord has studied violence and psychopathy with an emphasis on the types of social environments that promote violence.  She has also done research on alcoholism, computer crimes, and co-offending.  In addition to these substantive areas, McCord has written about methods for research and about theories explaining criminal behavior.  She has received the Prix Emile Durkheim from the International Society of Criminology and the Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology for her contributions to research.  She has been President of the American Society of Criminology and is a vice president of the International Society of Criminology.  Currently, too, she is on the advisory board of an international society for building a network of credible intervention studies known as the Campbell Collaboration.

Recent publications include:  Violence and Childhood in the Inner City (Cambridge University Press, 1997); "Interventions:  Punishment, Diversion, and Alternative Routes to Crime Prevention," in A. K. Hess & I.B. Weiner (Eds.), The Handbook of Forensic Psychology (Wiley, 1999); "Crime:  Taking an Historical Perspective," in P. Cohen, C. Slomkowski, & L.N. Robins (Eds.), Where and When:  Historical and geographical aspects of psychopathology (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999); "Alcoholism & Crime Across Generations," Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 1999; "Understanding Childhood and Subsequent Crime," Aggressive Behavior, 1999; "Intergenerational Transmission of Violence," in R. Gottesman (Ed.), Violence in America:  An Encyclopedia (Scribner, 1999); "Alcohol and Dangerousness," in G.F. Pinard & L. Pagani (Eds.), Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness:  Empirical Contributions (Cambridge University Press, 2001), "Forging Criminals in the Family," in S. White (Ed.), Handbook of Law and Social Science:  Youth and Justice (Plenum, 2001), and Juvenile Crime/Juvenile Justice (National Academy Press, 2001).