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The Pennsylvania Institute on Criminal Sentencing provides cutting-edge sentencing research and analysis with a particular emphasis on the laws and policy of Pennsylvania. In fact, the PA Institute on Criminal Sentencing is the only legal academic center of which we are aware that is dedicated to the exploration and study of Pennsylvania sentencing. The Institute offers news, information and updates on Pennsylvania sentencing. Based at Villanova University School of Law, the Institute is also able to offer scholarly analysis of important questions in the field.
Professor Richard E. Redding and Professor Steven L. Chanenson are the co-Directors of the PA Institute on Criminal Sentencing.
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Richard E. Redding
Professor Redding received his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College (with honors), his M.S. from Vanderbilt University, his J.D. (with honors) from Washington and Lee University (where he was the Frances Lewis Law Fellow), and his Ph.D. (in psychology) from the University of Virginia. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Michael W. Farrell at the D.C. Court of Appeals in Washington and practiced law for several years in Virginia. As the Director of the J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology at Villanova and Drexel Universities, Professor Redding also holds an appointment as Research Professor of Psychology at Drexel University.
Prior to joining the Villanova faculty in 2001, Professor Redding was an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught Mental Health Law, Psychiatry and Criminal Law, Law and Psychology, and the Mental Health Law Clinic. He also has been a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and the University of Malaysia, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the University of San Diego School of Law.
Professor Redding conducts research on forensic issues in criminal law (criminal law and psychology), juvenile justice, the use of social science in law and public policy, sociopolitical biases in public policy research, and sociopolitical multiculturalism. He has published over 75 articles and book chapters in leading legal and scientific journals, including the University of Chicago Press, Law and Human Behavior, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, the University of Chicago Roundtable, the Utah Law Review, the American University Law Review, the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, the American Psychologist, and publications of the American Bar Association, the Mac Arthur Foundation, and U.S. Justice Department. He also has co-authored three books.
Professor Redding is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He also has received awards for his work from the American-Psychology Law Society and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. He also has been a reviewer for numerous journals, serves on the editorial boards of the journals Criminal Justice and Behavior, Psychology Public Policy and Law, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, and the Journal of Child and Family Studies and was formerly the Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.
In addition to practicing law, Professor Redding has worked as a clinician with children and families, has directed major research and development projects for state and federal government agencies (including the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, the U.S. Air Force and Navy, and the Federal Aviation Administration), has served on juvenile justice task forces for the state of Virginia, and serves as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Professor Redding is the Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Institute on Criminal Sentencing. He also occasionally serves as an expert witness in cases involving juvenile offenders or social science research evidence.
Other Interests and Hobbies: Polo, Following Politics, Antique and Antiquities Collecting, and Archaeology.
Steven L. Chanenson
Steven L. Chanenson is an Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. At Villanova, he teaches courses on sentencing and white-collar crime, and writes in the area of sentencing and criminal procedure.
Professor Chanenson serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, and is the Chairman of the Commission’s Research Committee. Professor Chanenson is also the Liaison from the National Association of Sentencing Commissions to the American Law Institute’s efforts to revise the sentencing portions of the Model Penal Code. Furthermore, he is an Editor of (and frequent contributor to) the Federal Sentencing Reporter (University of California Press/Vera Institute of Justice), the leading professional journal of brief commentary on sentencing law, theory, and reform. He has been an invited speaker at many national conferences on sentencing, including the Judicial Conference for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Annual Conference of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions.
Professor Chanenson’s recent publications include Write On!, 115 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 146 (2006), http://www.thepocketpart.org/2006/07/chanenson.html; Guidance From Above and Beyond, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 175 (2005); The Next Era of Sentencing Reform, 54 Emory L. J. 377 (2005); Hoist With Their Own Petard?, 17 Fed. Sent. Rep. 20 (2004); and Get the Facts, Jack! Empirical Research and the Changing Constitutional Landscape of Consent Searches, 71 Tenn. L. Rev. 399 (2004).
Professor Chanenson received his B.A. (economics) and M.S. (criminology) from the University of Pennsylvania, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. At Chicago, he was a comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. While at the Supreme Court, he also served in the Chambers of the Honorable David H. Souter. He worked as an associate at Jenner & Block in Chicago, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago assigned to the Criminal Division before joining the Villanova faculty in 2000 as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
In 1986, Professor Chanenson received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship in recognition of his commitment to public service. For much of the past decade, he has been active in the Truman Scholar selection process, serving on both the Finalist Selection Committee and regional Selection Panels.
In a ceremony at the United States Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas presented Professor Chanenson with the 2005 Judge Joseph Stevens, Jr. Public Service Award, recognizing outstanding public service in the field of law. The award is named for Judge Stevens, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Missouri, and a Trustee and then President of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. The Foundation presents the award annually to a former Truman Scholar who as an attorney has made significant contributions in the public sector.
The views and opinions expressed by Professor Chanenson are not necessarily those of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, its staff or other Members.
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