Don Stemen received his Ph.D. in Law and Society from the Institute for Law and Society at New YorkUniversity in 2007. Before coming to Loyola, he was the Director of Research on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice, where he worked with state and county governments to reform criminal justice policies.Dons research focuses primarily on sentencing and corrections issues, examining the innovation and diffusion of sentencing and corrections policies across the United States and the impact of those policies on criminal justice agencies.
Recently he co-authored a report, Of Fragmentation and Ferment, focusing on the relationship between state sentencing policies and incarceration rates. He is currently a co-Principal Investigator in an NIJ-funded evaluation of a statewide drug-treatment program in Kansas and continues to work with technical assistance providers at Vera to examine racial disparities in prosecutorial decision-making.
