John K. Roman, Ph.D., is a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice, and Society Department and directs the Center for Public Safety and Justice at NORC at the University of Chicago.  His research focuses on the economics of innovative crime and justice policies and programs, cost-benefit methodology, and systems reforms, including justice system interactions with substance abuse, public health, adolescent development, housing, workforce development, and education. Dr. Roman has conducted research on behalf of numerous state and local governments, foundations, and federal agencies.

Dr. Roman is the author of What is the Price of Crime? New Estimates of the Cost of Criminal Victimization, the coeditor of two books, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control and Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse, as well as dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. Dr. Roman is an elected fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, chairs the Crime Trends Workgroup at the Council on Criminal Justice, chairs the Federal Data Infrastructure workgroup at Safe States Alliance, is the co-chair of the National Prevention Science Coalition, and serves on the editorial board of Criminology and the Journal of Experimental Criminology. He served as an associate editor at the Journal of Experimental Criminology and taught in the graduate programs of criminology and government at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He holds a BA from Kenyon College, an MPP from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from the University of Maryland.