Guns, School Violence and the RAND Study
	K. Jack Riley
	Associate Director of RAND's Infrastructure, Safety and Environment The RAND Corporation
K. Jack Riley was appointed Associate Director of RAND’s Infrastructure, Safety and Environment division in September 2004. The division houses programs on safety and justice; homeland security; and other topics. Jack leads projects on policing, gun violence, terrorism, and criminal justice reforms. His recent publications include: Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona (RAND, 2006); State and Local Intelligence in the War on Terrorism (RAND, 2005); Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati (RAND, 2005); Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles (RAND, 2003); From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a "Pulling Levers" Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio (Wadsworth, 2002). From 1995 to 1999, Jack was with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) where, from 1996 to 1999, he directed the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program. Jack received his BA (economics and Russian) from the University of Michigan in 1986; his MS (foreign service) from Georgetown in 1988; and his PhD from the RAND Graduate School (public policy) in 1993.