Rockville Institute Affiliates in
Criminal Justice & Violence Prevention
David Cantor, PhD
Michele Harmon, PhD
Craig Love, PhD
Karla McPherson, PhD
Andrea J. Sedlak, PhD
David Cantor, PhD, has experience in conducting research in
criminology and criminal justice in the areas of criminal victimization, unemployment
and crime, drug use and offending, and school-based violence prevention
programs. His research includes designing and implementing survey-based
evaluations of both adult and juvenile populations in residential facilities,
implementing and analyzing surveys of victims, and conducting secondary
analysis of existing data to evaluate criminal justice policies.
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Michele Harmon, PhD is a criminologist with experience conducting evaluation and survey research.
Her work focuses on research design, instrument development, and data analysis in the areas of problem behavior, drug prevention,
and court processing. She has directed research projects assessing the effectiveness of various programs and policies for district
courts and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. She has also conducted complex quantitative data analysis for three
large-scale Department of Education studies examining the quantity and quality of drug prevention programs implemented in
schools nationwide.
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Craig Love, PhD, has experience in criminal justice research both as a
university researcher and on the front line as a Federal prison research administrator.
He has conducted studies on prison management, correctional policy, substance abuse
treatment in prisons, inmate classification systems, drug court development
and evaluations (including family drug court), cost-effectiveness of prison-based interventions,
community policing, juvenile delinquency and diversion, as well as adult diversion program evaluation.
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Karla McPherson, PhD, is a social psychologist with extensive experience in teaching and research. Her work has
addressed a variety of issues related to children and families, criminal justice, racial and ethnic minorities, and health care
quality. Dr. McPherson's research experience includes the National Incidence Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS), the National
Evaluation of Runaway and Homeless Youth, the Adoption Assistance Impact and Outcomes study, the Evaluation of Ohio's Title IV-E
Waiver Demonstration Project "ProtectOhio," and the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement for the Office of Juvenile Justice.
She has also directed program evaluation and database development for the African American Health Program in Montgomery County,
Maryland. Dr. McPherson's areas of expertise include survey design and methodology and quantitative analysis.
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Andrea J. Sedlak, PhD, is a social psychologist with experience in research on children, youth, and families, with special focus
on troubled, vulnerable, and victimized groups. She has designed and conducted studies on child abuse and neglect, adopted children
and their families, missing children, runaway and homeless youth, and juvenile offenders in residential placement. Her
methodological expertise ranges from large-scale national incidence designs to in-depth interviews on highly sensitive subjects,
and she is adept at devising creative methods to maintain confidentiality and anonymity of study data.
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