Neil Weiner is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Research on Youth and Social Policy (CRYSP) at the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. degree from Queens College and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was Senior Research Associate on the National Academy of Science's Panel on Understanding and Preventing Violent Behavior and was a Visiting Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.

Dr. Weiner's major and ongoing research interests include individual violent criminal careers, situations in which violence occurs and escalates, historical patterns and trends in violent crime, violence in the judiciary, human trafficking, classification and management of violence risks, evaluation of juvenile justice and child welfare and protection programs, interventions, and operations, disparities in death sentencing, public-policy formulation and evaluation, and research methods.