Nancy La Vigne

Nancy La Vigne is an American criminologist who became dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice in January 2025. She previously directed the National Institute of Justice under President Biden and served as vice president for justice policy at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Her research favors data-driven approaches to criminal justice reform across policing, corrections, and reentry, work recognized with the American Society of Criminology's Herbert Block Award in 2017 and the LBJ School of Public Affairs' Distinguished Public Service Award in 2018. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/