Amanda Charbonneau is a policy researcher at RAND. Her work focuses on law enforcement, firearms, and violence. Currently, she co-leads evaluations of a decision-support tool for police officers responding to domestic disputes; a diversion program in Yolo County, California; and prison reentry services in Long Beach, California. She has published studies of police decisionmaking, the implementation of Extreme Risk Protection Orders, and background check policies for firearm purchases. She also designed evaluations and led evaluability assessments for federal law enforcement, homeland security, and military programs.
Charbonneau's work relies on a range of research designs and methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs, field randomized controlled trials, complex survey designs, machine learning techniques, and psychometric scale development.
Charbonneau received a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. in public policy, University of California, Berkeley; M.P.P in public policy, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in public health, English, University of California, Berkeley
