Do you work with UCR data to study crime, arrests or police staffing levels? Do you ever have questions about how the data are generated or what best practice is in working with these data? Jacob Kaplan has a new 146-page e-book that is a must-read! ucrbook.com

Thanks Mike! A lot has happened with cannabis policy since we wrote that 7 years ago, but I think its focus on design considerations is still useful For those who are interested, the 200p report is free: rand.org/pubs/research_… For a 1300 word summary: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Listen to Greg Midgette Greg Midgette, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UMD Criminology BSOS @ UMD discuss his work on the effects of the 24/7 Sobriety program in: go.umd.edu/TNb via Probable Causation

Prospective Crim and CJ graduate students, join us Friday, Nov 5th, 3-4pm EST to learn more about our graduate programs during our virtual open house! UMD Criminology Rachel Ellis @_robstew_ @DrHoodFeminist Sarah Tahamont Greg Midgette Gary LaFree

Co-sign. One more reference to add from a team at North Dakota State University UGPTI: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Proud to share this article coauthored with Tim Barnum which just landed in JRCD Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. In it we focus on situational peer influences that occur during offending opportunities rather than value-oriented influences that can occur over time. researchgate.net/publication/35…

Did Elizabeth Holmes design the jury

I am on NPR's 'Future of Policing in Columbus' podcast talking about why identifying and removing "bad apples" is unlikely to have as big an impact on citizen complaints against police as many have supposed. Short thread 👇 npr.org/podcasts/99872…

Don't miss out on an opportunity to join CJARS! We are looking to add multiple research assistants/data scientists to our expanding team. To learn more and apply: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/215…. #DataScience #EconTwitter #soctwitter #crimtwitter Econ RA Listings

We are proud to announce a new student travel award. The Dr. Kimchi Memorial Student Travel Award was created to honor Anat Kimchi who died tragically in 2021. Her family is honoring her by providing two travel awards to doctoral students who plan to attend ASC. See👇for more.

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We are hosting our Virtual Open House Fri, 10/28, from 12-2pm EST. This is a chance to learn more about the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Criminology & Criminal Justice at UMD. To register for this event, visit go.umd.edu/cBe

Talked with two separate CJ practitioners yesterday who were excited to tell me they were paying academics big $$ to do impact evaluations for them. 💔 Practitioners: You should *never* pay academics to do research. Our currency is publications, so we'll work for data.

Dear friends of the late Mark Kleiman, Thx to the hard work of Richard Hahn, National Academies recently established the Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture. To nominate an early career investigator or make a donation 👇 TY Richard & NASEM! nationalacademies.org/our-work/mark-…

Fantastic job opportunity at Arnold Ventures: Vice President of Criminal Justice Research. Great fit for social science or policy PhDs with an interest in supporting rigorous and policy-relevant research on criminal justice policy solutions. Apply here: recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

JMCs working on crime/CJ (and those planning to be on the market next year): you can make your own post-doc by applying for project-based funding through this RFP.

Curious about why synthetic opioids are devastating communities? Where do they come from, and if can we stop the spread? Tune into The Killing Drugs podcast by The Brookings Institution, hosted by Vanda Felbab-Brown, for answers and solutions. brookings.edu/articles/intro…

Which drugs are up, which are down? - YouTube In the 2nd episode of our new show The Killing Drugs, I speak w ⁦Greg Midgette⁩ & Peter Reuter about the state of the US illicit drug market youtube.com/watch?v=QhiF0n…

Are you a researcher looking to improve your causal inference skills? I'm excited to announce that the CJ team Arnold Ventures is hosting 3 causal inference workshops this fall! Two are the day before ASC (Nov 12 in San Francisco), and one is the day before APPAM (Nov 20 just

RAND's Beau Kilmer shares 5️⃣ things he'll be monitoring as a new administration shapes its approach to drug policy: bit.ly/4fkPGMz