Symposium Presentations

Presentations from the 9th Annual Jerry lee Crime Prevention Symposium are available below in pdf format by clicking on the presentation title.

Day 1: April 27, 2009

University of Maryland Inn & Conference Center, Founders Room
3501 University Blvd E., Adelphi, MD
1:00pm-5:00pm

Innovative Methods in Evidence-Based Policy

• Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
  Gary LaFree, START Center, University of Maryland
  
  
• Modeling the Yield and Costs of Early and Late Interventions to Reduce Violence and Homicide
  Rolf Loeber, University of Pittsburgh
  
  Advances in Experimental Criminology
  
  
• The Use of a Life Events Calendar in Experiments
  Julie Horney, SUNY-Albany
  
  
• Using Systematic Social Observation to Advance Experimental Criminology
  Stephen Mastrofski, George Mason University
  
  Limitations of Meta Analysis
  
  

• Challenges with Meta Analyses of Complex Interventions Tested in Varying Contexts
  David Olds, University of Colorado Denver
  
  Discussants:

  • David B. Wilson, George Mason University

  • Meta Analysis and Complex Interventions, Julia Littell, Bryn Mawr College
    
    

Day 2: April 28, 2009

Hall of the States Building, Room 333
444 N. Capitol St., Washington, DC
8:30am-12:30pm

Systematic Reviews:

• Restorative Justice: The Effects of Face-to-Face Conferencing Following Personal Victim Crimes
  Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Pennsylvania & Cambridge University; Heather Strang, Australian National University
  This presentation was featured in the April 29 edition of Crime & Justice News.
  
  Discussants:

  • Art Wallenstein, Director, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Montgomery County (MD)

  • Joye Frost, Acting Director, Office for Victims of Crime
    
    

• Effectiveness of Programs to Prevent School Bullying
  David P. Farrington, Cambridge University; Maria M. Ttofi, Cambridge University
  
  Discussants:

  • Miriam Rollin, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

  • Jeff Slowikowski, Acting Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Roundtable:
"Getting More Bang for Our Buck by Using Evidence-Based Approaches"
Moderator: Laurie Robinson, Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General

Brief Snapshots of Programs That Work:

• Hot Spots Policing- David Weisburd, George Mason University & Hebrew University

• DNA for Solving Burglary/Theft Cases- John Roman, Urban Institute

• Drug Courts- David B. Wilson, George Mason University

• Nurse Home Visits: David Olds, University of Colorado Denver
  

Government Respondents

• Zulima Espinel, Senior Counsel for National Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, Office of Senator Patrick Leahy

• Michael Crowley, Office of Management and Budget

• Neil MacBride, Office of the Deputy Attorney General

• Kristina Rose, Acting Director, National Institute of Justice