How to Reduce Crime and Improve Race Relations

Mark Schoofs is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who writes on global public health for the Wall Street Journal. As an Open Society Fellow, Schoofs began research on a book, Sex and Blood: A Tale of Two Epidemics, which explores the distinct historical, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the Russian and South African AIDS epidemics.

Schoofs won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for an eight-part series on AIDS in Africa for the Village Voice. He also contributed to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, which was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer for Breaking News, and helped edit the paper’s coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. His lead role in one of the Journal’s most ambitious investigative series of recent years—“Secrets of the System,” which revealed abuse and fraud in the United States' $500 billion Medicare system—was finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

Schoofs has written on a wide variety of other subjects, as well, including the effects of war in Africa, access to medicine in developing nations, innovative policing methods, the international drug trade, money-laundering, and gay life in Africa.

Tracey Meares is a professor at Yale Law School. Previously, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. She is a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences. Her full CV is available at www.law.yale.edu/faculty/4019.htm.