LISA L. MILLER, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her primary research interests involve legal decision-making in the criminal courts and the development of criminal justice policy in local, state and national politics. She is currently working on a book on interest group participation in crime control policy debates. She is also a co-principal investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation that examines decision-making in the federal criminal justice system. Her publications include a book on the local implementation of a federal crime program, The Politics of Community Crime Prevention (2001), and several articles on the politics of crime policy and criminal courts, including: "Re-thinking Bureaucrats in the Policy Process: Criminal Justice Agents and the National Crime Agenda," Policy Studies Journal (2004); "The Federal-State Criminal Prosecution Nexus: A Case Study in Discretion and Cooperation," Law and Social Inquiry, with James Eisenstein (forthcoming); "A Cautionary Note on the Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment Tools for Social Control," with Eric Silver, Crime and Delinquency (2002); "Looking for Postmodernism in All the Wrong Places: Implementing a New Penology" British Journal of Criminology (2001).