Alex Knorre

I am a quantitative criminologist and study gun violence, victimization, and drugs. I got my PhD in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, where I also got my MA degree in Statistics. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Boston College.

I was born and grew up in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. After high school, I moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where I got my BA degree in Sociology from Saint Petersburg State. Shortly after finishing my Master's in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg, I joined the Institute for the Rule of Law there, where I studied how Russian police plant drugs, conducted the first Russian Crime Victimization Survey, and had a really good time.