Dr. Eric Silver

Eric Silver is Assistant Professor of Crime, Law and Justice and Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research.� He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University at Albany in 1999.� Dr. Silver has co-authored numerous articles, books and book chapters in the areas of violence, mental illness and recidivism prediction.� He received the American Society of Criminology�s 2002 Ruth Shonle Cavan award for outstanding early contributions to the field of criminology, and received the 2002 Saleem Shah award for early career excellence from the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.�Dr. Silver also was co-winner of the American Psychiatric Association�s 2002 Guttmacher Book Award for his contributions to Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence (Oxford University Press).


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