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Criminology and Public Policy
A journal devoted to policy discussions of criminology research findings
Volume 8 Issue 1 • April 2009
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2008 August Vollmer Award
- Vollmer Award Address: Bootlegging: A career caught between fantasy and reality
Malcolm W. Klein - Vollmer Award Commentary: An essay in tribute to Malcolm Klein on his recognition as the August Vollmer Award winner
Scott H. Decker - Vollmer Award Commentary: Malcolm W. Klein: August Vollmer Award winner, 2008
Delbert S. Elliott
Explaining the Prison Boom
- Editorial Introduction: Explaining the imprisonment epidemic
Philip J. Cook - Crime, cash, and limited options: Explaining the prison boom
William Spelman - Policy Essay: Modern time-series methods and the dynamics of prison populations
Michael P. Murray - Policy Essay: Explaining the rise in U.S. incarceration rates
Steven Raphael - Policy Essay: Money and mass incarceration: The bad, the mad, and penal reform
Marie Gottschalk
Perceptual Distortions and Police Use of Force
- Editorial Introduction: Interpreting police use of force and the construction of reality
Geoffrey P. Alpert - Police officers’ perceptual distortions during lethal force situations: Informing the reasonableness standard
David A. Klinger and Rod K. Brunson - Policy Essay: Perceptual distortion and reasonableness during police shootings: Law, legitimacy, and future research
Robin S. Engel and Michael R. Smith - Policy Essay: Reasonable officers, public perceptions, and policy challenges
Kenneth J. Novak - Policy Essay: The elusive nature of reasonableness
William Terrill
Gender and Risk Assessment
- Editorial Introduction: A great debate over using the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) with women offenders
Merry Morash - Can 14,737 women be wrong? A meta-analysis of the LSI-R and recidivism for female offenders
Paula Smith, Francis T. Cullen, and Edward J. Latessa - Policy Essay: Gridlock or mutability: Reconsidering “gender” and risk assessment
Kelly Hannah-Moffat - Policy Essay: The women are not wrong: It is the approach that is debatable
Kelly N. Taylor and Kelley Blanchette
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