Hamilton Project Event on Crime and Incarceration

WASHINGTON, April 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 1st, The Hamilton Project at Brookings will host a forum and release three new papers focusing on crime and incarceration in the United States. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin will deliver opening remarks, and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) will join the forum to discuss the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014, which was recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with bi-partisan support.

The first panel will discuss a new proposal by Steven Raphael of UC Berkeley and Michael Stoll of UCLA for reducing incarceration rates in the United States through sentencing reform and changes to the financial incentives facing state and local governments. A second panel will discuss a new proposal by Jens Ludwig and Anuj Shah, both of the University of Chicago, outlining a strategy for scaling out an educational program—the so-called "BAM" model —to help disadvantaged youths recognize high-stakes situations in which their automatic responses may lead to trouble.

The panels will feature leading policymakers and practitioners, including Dean Esserman, New Haven Chief of Police; Elizabeth Glazer, Director of the Office of Criminal Justice for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; Cristine DeBerry, Chief of Staff for the District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco; and Robert Listenbee, Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the U.S. Department of Justice. Academic experts Daniel Nagin, Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University and co-editor of Criminology and Public Policy, and Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology at Temple University and an internationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence, will also join the discussion.

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1:00 pm
Welcome and Introductions

Robert E. Rubin
Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

1:10 pm
Roundtable: A New Approach to Reducing Incarceration While Maintaining Low Rates of Crime

Author: Steven Raphael
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Author: Michael Stoll
Professor and Chair of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Dean Esserman
Police Chief, New Haven, Connecticut

Discussant: Cristine DeBerry
Chief of Staff for the District Attorney,
City and County of San Francisco

Discussant: Daniel Nagin
Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Moderator: Melissa S. Kearney
Director, The Hamilton Project

2:20 pm
Featured Discussion: The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014

Discussant: The Hon. Richard Durbin
U.S. Senator (D-IL)        

Discussant: The Hon. Mike Lee
U.S. Senator (R-UT)

Facilitator: Roger C. Altman
Founder and Executive Chariman, Evercore

3:00 pm
Break

3:15 pm
Roundtable: A New Approach to Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout

Author: Jens Ludwig
McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy,
The University of Chicago

Discussant: Elizabeth Glazer
Director, Office of Criminal Justice for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Discussant: Robert Listenbee
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice

Discussant: Laurence Steinberg
Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University

Moderator: David Brooks
Columnist, The New York Times|

4:30 pm
Forum Adjourns

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For more information on the event, please contact [email protected] or call us at 202-797-6484.

SOURCE The Hamilton Project at Brookings