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

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 outside DC). We will cover all workshop costs, including participants' travel. ** The deadline to sign up is September 25th. ** Huge thanks to @instrumenthull, @jmwooldridge, and @EricChyn for teaching these courses. 🎉 Each section is capped at 40 people, to ensure a great learning environment. If we receive more interest than that, participants will be chosen via a fair lottery. Please spread the word! More info and the link to sign up are here: cvent.me/47WByP

Which drugs are up, which are down? - YouTube In the 2nd episode of our new show The Killing Drugs, I speak w ⁦@gregmidgette⁩ & Peter Reuter about the state of the US illicit drug market youtube.com/watch?v=QhiF0ney…

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 @BrookingsInst, hosted by @VFelbabBrown, for answers and solutions. brookings.edu/articles/intro…

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.

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/Rec…

Dear friends of the late Mark Kleiman, Thx to the hard work of Richard Hahn, @theNASEM 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-wo…

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.

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

Terp Your Enthusiasm!

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.

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…. #DataScience #EconTwitter #soctwitter #crimtwitter @econ_ra

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/998722746/t…

Did Elizabeth Holmes design the jury

Proud to share this article coauthored with @tim_barnum which just landed in JRCD @journalrcd. 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…

Co-sign. One more reference to add from a team at @NDSU @ugpti: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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! @UMDCriminology @RachelEllisPhD @_robstew_ @DrHoodFeminist @tahamonster @gregmidgette @glafree

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

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_repor… For a 1300 word summary: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/ne…

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/