Crime, Law and Policy Workshop

The Crime, Law and Policy Workshop provides an opportunity for students and faculty to engage with frontier works-in-progress from leading scholars focusing on various aspects of the criminal legal system.   This includes policing and deterrence, prosecution and the courts, as well as, violence perpetrated against civilians and law enforcement.

Schedule of the Series

• Thursday, January 30^th, Tom Tyler – Yale University Law School
  • Legitimacy-Based Policing
     
• Thursday, February 13^th, Kerri Raissian – UConn School of Public Policy
  • Introducing the Harms and Benefits Inventory: Waves 1 and 2
     
• Thursday, February 27^th, Scott Cunningham – Baylor University, Economics
  • Finding and (Trying to) Stop Suicide and Self Harm in Texas State Prisons and Travis County Correctional Complex Using Administrative Data, Machine Learning and Causal Inference
     
• Thursday, March 13^th, David Johnson – University of Central Missouri, Department of Economics and Finance               
  • Guns, Law Enforcement, and Death in the United States of America
     
• Thursday, April 3^rd, Andrea Headley – Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
  • On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral and What Effect Does it Have?
     
• Thursday, April 17^th, James Wright – Arizona State University School of Public Policy
  • TBD
     
• Thursday, April 24^th, Derek Neal – University of Chicago, Department of Economics
  • Early Predictors of Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice Involvement