Todd Foglesong

Todd Foglesong is a Senior Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government and Coordinator of the Justice Systems Workshop at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. Todd's research focuses on the use of arrest and pretrial detention around the world and the alignment of government efforts to administer criminal justice.

Prior to joining the program, Todd worked at the Vera Institute of Justice. Todd joined Vera in May 2000 to establish and direct the Center for Justice Assistance in Moscow, Russia, a joint venture of Vera and the Russian INDEM Fund that works with government and non-governmental agencies to improve the system of justice. He helped design and implement the Nizhegorod Project on Justice Assistance, a demonstration managed by the Center that reduced the length of time people were held in jail before trial. Todd also supervised Vera's work with the prosecution service in Chile to evaluate the effectiveness of its new system of justice.

Before joining Vera, Todd was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas and University of Utah. With Peter Solomon, he wrote Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform (Westview, 2000) and Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in Post-Soviet Ukraine (National Institute of Justice, 2001). Todd received a B.A. in Russian and Economics from Bowdoin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the board of RiskMonitor, a non-governmental research center in Sofia, Bulgaria, that supports better public policies on organized crime and institutional corruption.

Recent Publications

Foglesong, Todd. "Supervisión legislativa y judicial en un sistema de responsabilización policial: Debilidades estructurales y nuevas oportunidades (Legislative and Judicial Oversight in a System of Police Accountability: Structural Weaknesses and New Opportunities)" in Responsabilidad policial en democracia. Una propuesta para América Latina. Ernesto López Portillo Vargas and Hugo Frühling E., editors. Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia, 2008.

Foglesong, Todd. “Grand Ambitions, Modest Scale: An Empirical Turn in the Reform of Pretrial Detention” in Justice Initiatives: Pretrial Detention, Open Society Justice Initiative, April 2008.

Foglesong, Todd, and Christopher Stone. "Measuring the Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to the Control of Crime and Violence: Lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP07-019, April 2007.

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