{{Short description|American advocate for criminal justice reform}} {{Infobox person | name = Marc Mauer | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = |alma_mater = Stony Brook University<br>University of Michigan School of Social Work | other_names = | occupation = Executive director of the Sentencing Project | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Marc Mauer''' was the executive director of the [[Sentencing Project]], a group that advocates for [[criminal justice reform]] and addressing [[Race in the United States criminal justice system|racial disparities in the United States criminal-justice system]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/crack-heroin-and-race/401015/ | title=How White Users Made Heroin a Public-Health Problem | work=The Atlantic | date=12 August 2015 | accessdate=21 March 2016 | author=Cohen, Andrew}}</ref><ref name=wapo/>
==Education== Mauer received his bachelor's degree from [[Stony Brook University]] and his [[Master of Social Work]] from the [[University of Michigan]].<ref name=sp>{{cite web | url=http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/person.cfm?person_id=3 | title=Marc Mauer | work=Sentencing Project website | accessdate=21 March 2016 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115232208/http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/person.cfm?person_id=3 | archivedate=15 January 2016 }}</ref>
==Career== Mauer's career in [[criminal justice]] began with the [[American Friends Service Committee]] in 1975, where he served as the National Justice Communications Coordinator before joining the Sentencing Project in 1987. He became the Project's executive director in 2005.<ref name=sp/>
==Views== Mauer has been highly critical of the very high rate at which America incarcerates both violent and nonviolent offenders in recent decades, and that "we're well past the point of diminishing returns for public safety."<ref name=wapo>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/police-say-repeat-offenders-driving-crime-rise-in-district-and-elsewhere/2015/08/22/d95daee8-473a-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html | title=Police say repeat offenders driving crime rise in District and elsewhere | newspaper=Washington Post | date=22 August 2015 | accessdate=21 March 2016 | author=Hermann, Peter}}</ref> He has also encouraged Congress to pass sentencing reform to combat what he says are the adverse effects of the [[war on drugs]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/14/406768355/after-baltimore-and-ferguson-major-momentum-for-criminal-justice-system-reform | title=After Baltimore And Ferguson, Major Momentum For Criminal Justice System Reform | work=NPR | date=14 May 2015 | accessdate=21 March 2016 | author=Johnson, Carrie}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Google Scholar id|8mFrDu8AAAAJ}} *{{C-SPAN|16394}} {{Authority control}}
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