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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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