Alfred Blumstein
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| Alfred Blumstein | |
| Residence | United States |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Operations Research Criminology Urban Policy |
| Institutions | Institute for Defense Analysis Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Known for | Criminology |
Alfred Blumstein (born in 1930 in New York) is an American scientist and the professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research.
Blumstein graduated with his bachelors degree and PhD from Cornell University and worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses before joining the Heinz School.
Blumstein directs the NSF-funded National Consortium for Violence Research at Carnegie Mellon and was Dean of the Heinz School from 1986-1993
He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Criminology.
Blumstein was president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1977-78, The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) in 1987-88 and in 1996 he was the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
He was awarded the Wolfgang Award for Distinguished Achievement in Criminology in 1998 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He also shares the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the highest award in the field. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.
Blumstein's research centers around modeling criminal careers, deterrence, prison population, transportation analysis, drug-enforcement policy, and he developed "lambda" in criminology as a measurement of an individual's offending frequency.
