Dr. Alexis R. Piquero
Chair and Professor of Sociology and Criminology; Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami
Piquero served as head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, from June 2022 through August 2023, leading the agency’s efforts to collect, publish, and disseminate information on crime and the justice system. Piquero is a nationally and internationally recognized criminologist with more than 30 years of experience. Piquero has published over 550 scholarly articles and several books and his work has been cited more than 70,000 times.
Piquero is a Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He also currently serves as a member of the Violent Crime Working Group at the Council on Criminal Justice. Previous appointments and positions include serving as a panel member at the National Academy of Sciences panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics; a panel member for the National Academies of Sciences panel on Approaches for Assessing and Communicating the Quality of National Statistics; a Board Member of the Committee on Law & Justice, National Academies of Sciences; a member of the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations; and a Member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice.
George Shaler
President, Justice Information Resource Network
George Shaler is the Senior Research Associate at the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He provides program evaluation and consultation services to state and local government agencies and community-based organizations. He offers technical assistance in evaluation capacity building (using a logic model approach) to many Maine non-profits. Mr. Shaler has extensive experience applying statistical methods and techniques and has been on the SAC staff since 2003. He has examined county jail trends, disproportionate minority contact, prison/jail health care issues, and juvenile and adult recidivism analysis and conducted a community policing program evaluation. Mr. Shaler has co-authored and/or edited numerous SAC reports, including the recent Disproportionate Contact: Youth of Color in Maine’s Juvenile Justice System, a winner of the 2015 Douglas Yearwood National Publication Award in the Statistical Analysis/Management category.