Daniel Steven Nagin (born November 29, 1948)[2] is an American criminologist, statistician, and the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.
[4] Nagin served as the Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986.
[4] He joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as an associate professor of management in their School of Urban and Public Affairs.
[4] In 2012, this committee released a report concluding that existing research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is inconclusive.
[6][7] He has also researched the use of statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal data, as well as changes in criminal behavior over the human lifetime.