Vaughn Crandall is Technical Assistance Director of the Crime and Justice Policy Lab at the University of Pennsylvania where he leads the Lab’s technical assistance support to cities seeking to reduce violence, improve public safety and produce rigorous research findings.
Previously, Vaughn served as Co-Director and Executive Director of the California Partnership for Safe Communities, supporting cities to apply evidence-based strategies to reduce violence, reduce the use of incarceration and build police-community trust. Vaughn has over 20 years of experience in local violence reduction and justice reform efforts and has led and supported violence reduction efforts in various major cities in the U.S. and Mexico. Rigorous impact evaluations have documented the impact of these strategies on community levels of violence; individual victimization and recidivism and police-community trust.
Previously, Vaughn also served as Deputy Director of The Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the New York City Departments of Correction and Probation. He holds an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Kennedy School at Harvard, a Master of Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Ohio University.
