Dr. Silver received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University at Albany in 1999. Dr. Silver has co-authored numerous articles, books, and book chapters in the areas of urban violence, mental illness and recidivism prediction. Dr. Silver received the American Society of Criminology's 2002 Ruth Shonle Cavan award for outstanding early contributions to the field of criminology, and received the 2002 Saleem Shah award for early career excellence from the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. Dr. Silver also was co-winner of the American Psychiatric Association's 2002 Guttmacher book award for his contributions to Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence (Oxford University Press).