Firearm deaths among kids under 18 recently jumped by 50%. Now at 3.5 per 100k population, the highest rate since records have been kept. see: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023…

Quite a privilege to co-present today at Safety and Justice Network Meeting in St. Louis! Check out the work we are doing at the Council on Criminal Justice at counciloncj.org!

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Wanted to share my 🚨New Essay🚨. It’s built around a central empirical claim: that most reforms and interventions in the criminal legal space are shown to have little lasting impact when evaluated via gold standard methods. 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Some scenes from the 12th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior.

My friend Jack Riley, VP at RAND, has now been sanctioned by name by both Al Qaeda and Russia. He’s obviously doing something right.

If you are estimating treatment effects, you really should check that in your data, your model has a reasonable chance of detecting them, has well calibrated type 1 error rates, low type S error, etc. This tool makes that easy.

Our new research identifies two actionable proposals for increasing the utilization of buprenorphine—the lifesaving treatment for opioid use disorder. bit.ly/3BW7EDQ

4/“These are people that are trying to compete in the legal labor market,” said Shawn Bushway of RAND Corp; he's found 64% of unemployed men have been arrested & 46% convicted. “You can’t say, ‘Well, these people are just lazy’ or ‘These people really don’t really want to work.’”

Nice article by Tal Smith mentioning our work at RAND about employment for people with a criminal record.

From Shawn Bushway and co. School resource officers protect students from physical attacks and fights within schools (though not gun crime) but lead to harsher disciplinary punishments, particularly for students who are Black, male, or with disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Thanks for the Shoutout for our new paper on school resource officers. RAND @lucy_sorensen University at Albany

RAND criminologist Shawn Bushway joins the program to offer a reality check on crime in America. thedispatch.com/podcast/remnan…

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