Anthony Petrosino, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow at the Orion Policy Institute. He is also Senior Fellow and Affiliated Faculty 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, has successfully directed or co-directed several randomized controlled trials, and has co-planned conferences and events, including several successful CEBCP Congressional Briefings.
Petrosino formerly helped to create the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center in 2014 and he directed it until 2025. He 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, including projects funded by the U.S. National Institute of Justice, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 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. Petrosino is a leader in systematic literature reviews and a founding member of the international Campbell Collaboration, serving as Founding Coordinator of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, from which he received a Distinguished Service Award in 2004, and receiving the 2003 Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Child Welfare Policy Association for his pilot Campbell review of Scared Straight programs. In 2025, he was named International Expert Adviser for the Campbell China Network.
Petrosino received WestEd’s Paul D. Hood Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field (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 (2023), and the Glen Harvey Award for Uplifting and Empowering WestEd Colleagues (2024). He was named as a non-voting expert during 2018 by Governor Brian Sandoval to serve on 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).
