Anthony Petrosino, Ph.D. is Senior Fellow at the Center for Evidence-based Crime Policy (CEBCP) at George Mason University, where he also serves as Senior Editor of its flagship publication, Translational Criminology magazine. He has nearly 40 years of experience in collaborating on and directing research and evaluation studies. Petrosino has also successfully directed or co-directed four randomized controlled trials. He has also co-planned conferences and events, including several successful CEBCP Congressional Briefings.

Petrosino has been a PI or co-PI on over $30 million in funding for projects over the past 20 years and has helped lead over 60 studies to successful completion. This includes those funded by the U.S. National Institute of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Petrosino also co-directed studies for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation.

He has co-authored over 200 reports, journal articles, book chapters and other publications. He is a leader in systematic literature reviews and a founding member of the international Campbell Collaboration and served as Founding Coordinator of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, for which he received a Distinguished Service Award in 2004. In 2003, he received the Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Child Welfare Policy Association for his pilot Campbell review of Scared Straight programs.

Petrosino also received WestEd’s Paul D. Hood Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field in 2011 and was named Honorary Fellow (2005) by the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He also received the Robert Boruch Award for Contributions to Public Policy from the Campbell Collaboration (2018), the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Scholar Award from Penn State University (2024), and the Glen Harvey Award for Uplifting and Empowering WestEd Colleagues (2024). Petrosino was also named as non-voting expert during 2018 by Governor Brian Sandoval to serve the Nevada Statewide Task Force on School Safety and was selected by the National Academies to serve as a committee member to plan a workshop on violence prevention (2012-2013).