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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
The Costs and Benefits of Crime
Control and Prevention Pre-conference
July 23, 2009
Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig, Justin
McCrary, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:
6:00 pm Group Dinner
Bambara
Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe,
THURSDAY, JULY 23:
8:30 am Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am Introductions and Introductory Remarks
9:15 am STEVEN DURLAUF, University of
Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
DANIEL
NAGIN, Carnegie Mellon
Imprisonment and Crime: Evidence, Policy
Implications, & Future Research Directions
9:45 am PETER REUTER,
HAROLD
POLLACK,
Adapting
Drug Policy to the Changing Demographics of Abusers
10:15 am Break
10:30 am JOHN DONOHUE,
Rethinking America's Drug Policy
11:00 am JUSTIN
McCRARY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Tradeoffs
Between Police and Prisons
11:30 am ANNE PIEHL,
Organizational
Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines and other Alternative Sanctions
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm STEVE RAPHAEL, UC, Berkeley
Improving Employment Prospects for Former
Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy
1:30 pm PHIL COOK,
Limiting Criminal Opportunities
2:00 pm SETH SANDERS,
Crime and the Family: Lessons from Teen
Chilbearing
2:30 pm LANCE LOCHNER,
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm JENS LUDWIG,
BRIAN
JACOB,
Housing
Policy Effects on Crime
4:00 pm RICHARD FRANK,
TOM
McGUIRE,
Mental Health Treatment and Criminal
Justice Outcomes
4:30 pm CARLOS DOBKIN, UC,
KITT
CARPENTER, UC,
Alcohol
Control Policy and Crime
5:00 pm JEFFREY GROGGER and JONATHAN GURYAN,
BRENT
ROBERTS,
Improving
Non-Cognitive Skills as a Means of Reducing Adolescent Crime
5:30 pm Adjourn
6/10/09