David Green grew up on a farm in central Massachusetts. He worked for five years in direct care human services while earning a BS degree in Urban Studies at Worcester State College. He left Massachusetts for England in 2000 to pursue an MPhil degree in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He was then awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD, which he completed in 2006. He took up a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford, in fall 2005. During his time in Oxford, he won a British Academy research grant to expand his PhD research, set up and taught a new graduate course called News Media, Crime and Policy, and reworked his dissertation into a book titled When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture to be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2008. He left England for John Jay in January 2008. His main research interests involve the interrelationship between crime, the mass media, public opinion and politics in a comparative perspective. His work also appears in the British Journal of Criminology and Crime and Justice – A Review of Research.