Dr. John M. Klofas is the director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he manages a joint project of the City of Rochester, Rochester Police Department and RIT to provide analysis of criminal justice data and policy for the criminal justice system including police, prosecution, community supervision and corrections.

Dr. Klofas’s current areas of focus include community level crime and justice issues including violence, management in criminal justice, and strategies and practices in policing. He has received external funding and published widely in these areas. His most recent book collaboration is an examination of changes in criminal justice at the community level titled The New Criminal Justice.

Professor Klofas continues to serve as a research partner with local criminal justice agencies, on the state’s police training commission and on several national projects addressing community violence. He also works with several police departments across the country on issues of risk management as part of reform focused consent decrees in the Federal Courts.

Dr. Klofas received his bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his master’s and doctorate in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany.