Molly Slothower
About Molly Slothower
Molly Slothower is a Senior Research Manager with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, working primarily in managing pretrial research and jail population reduction efforts. She previously workEd for the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, where teaches in the Police Executive Masters Programme and she managed field randomized controlled trials in policing. Molly served as the field manager of the West Midlands Police (UK) Turning Point Experiment from 2012 to 2014, the primary investigator on the Turning Point Victim randomized controlled trial, a consultant to the TTPS Hot Spots Patrol Strategy randomized controlled trial in 2013, and a researcher in additional USA-based studies. Her research publications include studies testing approaches to managing police discretion, reducing offender recidivism, improving victim satisfaction, and reducing place-based crime. She received her PhD in Criminology at the University of Maryland, where she managed a Family Court-based randomized controlled trial testing a family therapy model of reducing delinquency adapted for gang-involved youth. Molly holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics from Earlham College, and a Masters in Criminology from the University of Maryland, and is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. Substantive Research Areas: Innovations in Policing and Criminal Justice; Management of Police Discretion; Offender Behavior Change; Quality Implementation of Criminological Interventions; Restorative Justice; Desistance; Gang-Involved Youth; Delinquency prevention; Technology transfer.