Daniel Nagin

Nagin received his B.S. in Administrative and Managerial Sciences and M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1971, and his Ph.D. from what is now the university's Heinz College in 1976. ==Career==

Nagin served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986. He was also the research program area director of Carnegie Mellon University's National Consortium on Violence Research from 1997 to 2001. In 2006, he became the Associate Dean of Faculty at Heinz College, and in 2008, he became the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, positions he still held as of December 2019. ==Research==

Nagin is known for researching the deterrence effect of criminal punishments and he chaired the National Research Council’s Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty. He has also researched the use of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data, as well as changes in criminal behavior over the human lifetime. ==Honors and awards==

Nagin, along with Joan Petersilia, received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2014. He received the Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2006. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. ==References==