Crime Prevention, Crime and Place, Crime Analysis, Data Science, Computational Criminology
Zachary Drake is a Ph.D. student in Criminology, Law and Society. His areas of study are focused in the quantitative understanding of crime trends, rates, prevention, and policies. Zach is currently a data scientist with Deloitte Consulting, LLP where he helps federal, state, and local government agencies improve their systems and processes for collecting, analyzing and leveraging data to drive decision making. He was previously a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton where he supported the Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Training and Technical Assistance Center. At BJA NTTAC, Zach worked with federal, state, local, and tribal criminal justice leadership to coordinate the federal support, implementation, and performance measurement of training and technical assistance to criminal justice agencies in the field.
Zach is passionate about infusing big data technology, machine learning, and data science to improve criminal justice and security organization decision making and performance evaluation. Likewise, he believes these technologies and approaches can be used in a structured, methodologically valid, research-oriented approach to unlock knowledge and understanding in ways that supersede past research approaches.
In parallel, Zach is interested in the applications of crime prevention and deterrence using non-government tactics. Specifically, these tactics include crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, cyber security, and the role of place managers and neighborhood residents in crime control and security. The enhancement of these approaches produces a lower cost, higher yield, and less politically volatile solution to crime reduction at all ends of the criminal justice spectrum.
CRIM 471 - Prevention and Deterrence of Crime
Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science; Microsoft Corporation, 2018
M.A. in Criminology, Law and Society; George Mason University, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program; U.S. Coast Guard, 2015
B.S. in Integrative Studies (Criminal Justice, Organizational Communication, and Geographic Information Science); Kennesaw State University, 2015