was a senior research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at Harvard Law School. He is also a member of the Campbell Collaboration Criminal Justice Steering Committee. Abt is a former member of the advisory board of the Police Executive Programme at the University of Cambridge, and he is also a former senior fellow with the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In November 2022, it was announced that Abt would join the University of Maryland's department of criminology and criminal justice, where he would serve as an associate research professor and founding director of a new venture, the Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction. The Center will synthesize the latest research concerning community gun violence and make it available to policymakers, practitioners, and the public free of charge. The Center will also provide guidance to federal, state, and local leaders on how best to apply anti-violence research in real-world scenarios. Abt is a nationally recognized researcher and expert on crime. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on MSNBC, PBS, National Public Radio, among other places. His TED talk on saving lives by stopping violence has been viewed more than 200,000 times. References External links Living people American male non-fiction writers Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign 21st-century scholars American legal scholars Crime in the United States 1972 births University of Michigan alumni