Robert John Zagar

Robert’s research resulted in US Presidential executive decisions freeing 6,800 federal nonviolent prisoners by commutation and pardon, US Supreme Court decision (Miller v Alabama, Graham v Florida) causing the re-sentencing of 2,500 juveniles with life sentences without parole, an Act of Congress on predictive analytics for military and veterans, and the recent Illinois bill signed by Governor Rauner reforming the prison system.. After Dr. Zagar gave Mayor Daley “Predicting and Preventing Homicide a Cost Effective Empirical Approach from Infancy to Adulthood,” the entire February 2009 issue of Psychological Reports, volume 104, 1-377, the University of Chicago opened a Crime Lab to coordinated city policy. Robert shared his research with Cook County President Preckwinkle 25 September 2011 resulting in a 56% reduction in Cook County prisoners. Robert gave Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel the progress with Daley. One Summer Chicago continued to provide jobs, mentors, and anger management to 255,806 at-risk youth over a decade saving 1,070 homicides prevented or lives and $1,070,000,000. Dr. Zagar testified before the. U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security 24 July 2012 on how his predictive algorithm saved 324 lives and $2.089B from 2009 to present in Chicago resulting in over 130 million in USDOJ and Chicago Public Safety Funds. After Drs. Garbarino and Zagar shared their 2016 paper with Pope Francis he ordered all pedophile moving bishops to be removed by canonical court hearing and organized a February 2019 conference on Protection of Minors in the Church. President Trump read Dr. Zagar's work obtaining the National Rifle Association endorsement and later enacted prison reform in the First Step Act. Pope Francis changed canonical law 1 June 2021 after reading Dr. Zagar's 2019 paper in the Review of European Studies, showing that one could find sex offenders with computer tests and machine learning equations. Dr. Zagar is a registered clinical and certified school psychologist on National Register of Health Care Psychology Providers, a probation officer of the “first” Juvenile Court (1899) if Cook County. As an economist, Robert designed Mitsubishi plant and Illinois Labor Unemployment Compensation Act Lawyer Rewrite Committee human resources selection, and Motorola work sharing programs. Robert taught at Northwestern, Illinois at Chicago, Argosy, Barry, DePaul, and Lewis Universities, Chicago, Illinois and Forest Schools of Professional Psychology, and Calumet College. For three decades Robert is an expert witness in competency, crime, custody, personal injury, presentencing, workman’s compensation, among others. Before his doctorate he performed 1,000 neuropsychological exams. Robert completed a doctorate from Northwestern University in research design and statistics (the best program in the world), a bachelor’s from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master’s from Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of Illinois at Chicago, NIMH national service award fellowships in sleep disorders at Rush University Medical School, and prevention at University of Illinois Medical Center, 2 years of pre-medical sciences at DePaul, and 2 years basic medical sciences at Barry Universities. Robert served on the American Psychological Association Youth Violence Committee and on the international example of how to deal with pedophilia, the Chicago Archdiocese Committee for Clergy Abuse. He is the son of a U.S. Navy Seal who served behind enemy lines in China during WWII in the Sino American Cooperative Organization and and his mother, US Navy Wave nurse. Robert was born at Great Lakes Navy Base Hospital. His wife Agatha, an actress, banker and teacher, is from Poland. They are both members of the University Club of Chicago and Holy Name Cathedral parish. They founded and funded the Society of the Friends of Radgoszcz, a nonprofit organization to help students and less fortunate in Poland.
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