Marc Mauer is one of the country’s leading experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice system. He has directed programs on criminal justice reform for 30 years and is the author of some of the most widely cited reports and publications in the field. The Atlantic magazine has described him as a scholar who has “reframed how Americans view crime, race, and poverty in the public sphere.” His 1995 report on racial disparity and the criminal justice system led the New York Times to editorialize that the report “should set off alarm bells from the White House to city halls – and help reverse the notion that we can incarcerate our way out of fundamental social problems.” He is the author of several books, including Race To Incarcerate, and co-editor of Invisible Punishment and contributing author of Policing The Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment.