Edmund F. McGarrell, Ph.D. Director

Contact Information:

Office Location:  544 Baker Hall
Office Phone:  517/355-2192
E-mail: mcgarrel@msu.edu
Departmental Fax:  517/432-1787
Departmental Mailing Address:
        School of Criminal Justice
        Michigan State University
        560 Baker Hall
        East Lansing, MI 48824-1118

Academic Positions

Edmund F. McGarrell is Director and Professor of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). McGarrell also serves as Co-Chair of MSU’s Risk Research Initiative. The Risk Initiative promotes cross-disciplinary research and educational activities across a variety of domains and builds on scholarship related to risk analysis, management, communication, governance, decisions and values. Previously he was a faculty member at Indiana University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice from 1996-2000, and at Washington State University at Spokane. He was Director of the Crime Control Policy Center at the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute, Co-Director of the Washington State Institute for Community Oriented Policing, and a visiting fellow at the National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Current Research

McGarrell’s research interests are in the area of communities and crime. He is the Principal Investigator (with Tim Bynum) of an initiative sponsored by the National Institute of Justice whereby the School of Criminal Justice is the national research team for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). PSN is a major Department of Justice program intended to reduce firearms violence in the United States. He is also the Co-PI for projects involving law enforcement intelligence and food supply chain security, both sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. As part of the Risk Initiative, McGarrell is collaborating with faculty from a variety of fields to promote research on emerging issues related to environmental and natural resource crime, supply chain security, and counterfeiting. McGarrell has conducted several long-term research projects including an experiment on the use of restorative justice conferences as an alternative response to juvenile crime and a strategic problem solving initiative to reduce homicide and firearms violence. McGarrell’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, private foundations, industry, and state and local agencies.

Publications

McGarrell is the author of Juvenile Correctional Reform and co-editor of Community Corrections and Community Policing in a Rural Setting. Additional research reports include Enhancing Security Throughout the Supply Chain (IBM Center for The Business of Government) and Returning Justice to the Community: The Indianapolis Restorative Justice Experiment. His articles have appeared in a number of journals including American Behavioral Scientist, Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, Justice Research and Policy, as well as reports by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the National Institute of Justice.

E-mail Dr. McGarrell at mcgarrel@msu.edu

Updated: 04/25/07