2015 Veritas, Issue 3

Derek Cohen, Ph.D., is the director of Right on Crime at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Dr. Cohen was instrumental in the passage of the First Step Act, federal legislation that borrowed from successful changes to prisons and sentencing that he had helped pass in conservative states. In previous legislative sessions, Dr. Cohen has successfully worked on issues of occupational licensure, truancy reform, and orders of nondisclosure.  In addition to leading the Foundation’s work on criminal justice, he is also the lead researcher of firearms policy.