David Green grew up in central Massachusetts. He earned an MPhil degree in Criminology at the University of Cambridge in England in 2001, and then won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD, which he completed in 2006. In the fall of 2005 he took up a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. While in Oxford he taught at the Centre for Criminology, received a grant from the British Academy to expand his PhD research, and reworked his dissertation into a book entitled When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2008). He left England for John Jay College 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 has appeared in the British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Justice – A Review of Research, and Crime, Media, Culture.