Speaker Bios

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.

Grant Duwe is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Minnesota Department of Corrections. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Dr. Duwe is the author of the book “Mass Murder in the United States: A History” (McFarland and Company, Inc.), and he has written more than 40 articles that have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. Currently a Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics, he is a member of the editorial board at Criminal Justice Policy Review. His recent research has focused on the development of recidivism risk assessment instruments. Dr. Duwe is currently co-principal investigator for a project involving the development of a sexual recidivism risk assessment instrument for juvenile sex offenders, and he is the creator of the Minnesota Screening Tool Assessing Recidivism Risk (MnSTARR). He received the American Society of Criminology’s inaugural Practitioner Research Award for his development of the MnSTARR, a prediction tool that assesses risk for multiple types of recidivism for male and female prisoners.  Dr. Duwe’s recent research has also focused on the importance of social support in reducing recidivism, as evidenced by studies that have examined Circles of Support and Accountability for high-risk sex offenders, prison visitation, and faith-based programming. Along with Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson and Sung Joon Jang, he is a co-author of the forthcoming book, “The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance and Rehabilitation” (Routledge).

Amy Farrell, Ph.D., is the Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. She also serves as the Co-Director of the university’s Violence and Justice Research Lab.  Her research is aimed at understanding and describing how the criminal justice system administers justice. Over the past decade she has studied and published research about how local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases. Her focus has also included labor trafficking victimization, and how the public views the problem of human trafficking and potential solutions. She works with policymakers and practitioners, including through her service on Governors Working Group on Human Trafficking in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Stephen Haas is a director of research and evaluation for the justice research and victim services practice at ICF. He has over 30 years of experience in project management, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, applied research and program evaluation, and training and technical assistance. Dr. Haas has served as the principal investigator and project director for more than 50 national, state, and local research and evaluation projects. He writes about performance measurement, crime and victimization surveys, implementation science, risk assessment validation, program quality assurance approaches, best practices in adult and juvenile corrections, recidivism prediction, and other topics. Stephen has also led many training and technical assistance (TTA) projects for multiple levels of government, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit agencies in multiple justice areas and contexts. He routinely consults and provides TTA in core correctional practices, juvenile and adult risk and needs assessment, case planning, motivational interviewing, and cognitive-behavioral interventions with justice-involved populations. Dr. Haas has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and political science from The Ohio State University and a master’s and a doctorate in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati.

James P. Lynch is professor and former chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He served as the director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the United States Department of Justice from June of 2010 through January of 2013. .Previous academic positions include distinguished professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College, City University of New York; professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University and chair of that department from 2003 to 2005. Lynch’s research focuses on victim surveys, victimization risk, the role of coercion in social control, and crime statistics. He has published four books and numerous articles many of them dealing with crime statistics.   He was vice president-elect of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and served on the Committee on Law and Justice Statistics of the American Statistical Association. From 2008 to 2010 he was co-editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.  Lynch received his B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Fernanda S. Rossi, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, implementation scientist, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University and completed her clinical psychology predoctoral internship at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). She also completed postdoctoral research fellowships in medical informatics and health services research at VAPAHCS/Stanford University and addiction implementation science at the Stanford Center for Dissemination & Implementation. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating, and implementing assessment tools and interventions, including clinical decision support tools, to improve the safety and mental health of individuals at risk of intimate partner violence, suicide, and drug overdose. Within implementation science, Dr. Rossi has also worked on providing recommendations for developing sustainable and effective dashboards using human-centered design and implementation science methods.