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DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC) invites you to 
 attend\none or both of the following talks by\n\nPeter Greenwood, 
 PhD\nFounder and Former Director of the\nRAND Corporation's Criminal 
 Justice Program\n\n"Progress and Politics in Crime Prevention"\nwith 
 Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and 
 Wolfen\nDistinguished Scholar, Boalt Hall School of Law, as 
 respondent\n\nWednesday, October 25th, 12:00-1:30pm\n554 Barrows Hall, UC 
 Berkeley\n\nDr. Greenwood will review recent breakthroughs in 
 evidence-based youth\ncrime prevention and discuss how they are likely to 
 be received and\nutilized by public officials and 
 practitioners.\n\nCo-sponsored by Center for the Study of Law and Society, 
 Boalt Hall\n \n=================\n\n?Evidence-Based Youth Violence 
 Prevention: What Communities Can Do?\n\nWednesday, October 25th, 4-5:30 
 pm\nNCCD, 1970 Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland\n\nDr. Greenwood will explain 
 how community-based organizations can implement\neffective youth violence 
 prevention programs based on evidence from\nresearch.\n\nCo-sponsored by 
 the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)\n\nDr. Peter Greenwood 
 is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of\njuvenile justice, 
 delinquency prevention and sentencing policy.  He is a\nFellow of the 
 Academy of Experimental Criminology and recipient of the\nAugust Volmer 
 Award from American Society of Criminology.  Dr. Greenwood\nhas served on 
 the Advisory Board for the Blueprints Project, and as the\nfounding 
 Director of the RAND Corporation?s Criminal Justice Program. He\ncurrently 
 serves on the Board of VisionQuest and as a private consultant\nto other 
 juvenile corrections organizations attempting to make their\nprograms more 
 evidence-based. He has published widely in the areas of\nviolence 
 prevention, juvenile justice, criminal careers, sentencing,\ncorrections, 
 law enforcement and cyber crime. His most recent book,\npublished by the 
 University of Chicago Press, is entitled Changing Lives:\nDelinquency 
 Prevention as Crime Control Policy.\n\nFranklin Zimring is the William G. 
 Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen\nDistinguished Scholar at Boalt School of 
 Law. Zimring's major fields of\ninterest are criminal justice and family 
 law, with special emphasis on the\nuse of empirical research to inform 
 legal policy. He is a fellow of the\nAmerican Society of Criminology and a 
 member of the American Academy of\nArts and Sciences. He is the principal 
 investigator for the Center on\nCulture, Immigration and Youth Violence 
 Prevention. Zimring is the author\nor co-author of many books on topics 
 including deterrence, the changing\nlegal world of adolescence, capital 
 punishment, the scale of imprisonment,\nand drug control. Recent books 
 include The Contradictions of American\nCapital Punishment (2003), American 
 Youth Violence (1998), and Crime is\nNot the Problem: Violence in America 
 (with Hawkins, 1997).\n\nThese Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence 
 Prevention Speaker Series\nevents are free and open to the public. Please 
 forward this announcement\nto anyone who might be interested. We apologize 
 for any cross-posting and\nmultiple copies of this message.\n\nLight 
 refreshments will be served. Wheelchair 
 accessible.\n\n************************************************************\nFor 
 more information contact ISSC Seminar Series Coordinator Mahad\nIbrahim, 
 642-0813; mahadi@sims.berkeley.edu.\n\nInstitute for the Study of Social 
 Change\nUniversity of California, Berkeley\n2420 Bowditch Street\nBerkeley, 
 Ca 94720-5670\nTel: 510.642.0813\nFax: 510.642.8674\n\n\n[reposted 
 anonymously by a recipient of an email bulletin]\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/18/18321417.php
SUMMARY:Two Youth Crime Prevention Talks at UC Berkeley 12-1:30 and 4-5:30
LOCATION:Wednesday, October 25th, 12:00-1:30pm\n554 Barrows Hall, UC 
 Berkeley\nand\nWednesday, October 25th, 4-5:30 pm\nNCCD, 1970 Broadway, 
 Suite 500, Oakland\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/18/18321417.php
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