The Illinois Academy of Criminology honored Mary Powers, founding member of Citizens Alert, and Dennis Drahos, former chief, Cook County Department of Corrections, at their annual Past Presidents' Night Dec. 11.
Ed Mogul, longtime attorney and activist, including in support of LGBT organizations, is a former president who helped organize the event.
Creasie Finney Hairston and Elvis Slaughter introduced the honorees.
Special guest speaker Professor Daniel Nagin of Carnegie Mellon University discussed research on prisons and prison reform.
Nagin is the incoming editor of Criminology and Public Policy, chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, and served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986.
Nagin is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He is the 2006 recipient of the American Society of Criminology Edwin H Sutherland Award ( for research contributions ) and is a 1985 recipient of the Northeastern Association of Tax Administrators Award for Excellence in Tax Administration.
His research focuses on the evolution of criminal and antisocial behaviors over the life course, the deterrent effect of criminal and non-criminal penalties on illegal behaviors, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data. His work has appeared in such diverse outlets as the American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Sociology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Child Development, Demography, Psychological Methodology, Law & Society Review,Crime and Justice Annual Review, Operations Research, and Stanford Law Review. He is also the author of Group-based Modeling of Development ( Harvard University Press, 2005 ).
For more info on Bagin, see here: www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/faculty-details/index.aspx .
Videos for Windy City Times of the lecture and awards:
IL Academy of Criminology 12-11-2013 Honors Mary Powers, Dennis Drahos : www.youtube.com/watch .
IL Academy of Criminology 12-11-2013: Speaker Prof. Daniel Nagin :h www.youtube.com/watch .