Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Workshop on Criminology and the Economics of Crime

In June 2005, the Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy held the first annual workshop bringing together criminologists and economists working on related topics. The goal of the workshop was to improve each group’s understanding of the other’s work and to generate collaboration between them. As a result of the success of the conference, we have been able to secure funding for the second annual workshop, now scheduled for June 5-6, 2006 at the Wye River Conference Center facility about 50 miles from both Baltimore and Washington. We are seeking proposals for papers and sessions.

Papers can be on any crime topic that is likely to be of interest to both criminologists and economists, such as illegal markets, cost benefit analysis and desistance from crime. This year, we plan to include a set of sessions entitled “The Effect of Incarceration On . . .” The dependent variable of these analyses can be anything which might be affected by incarceration. Given that criminologists and economists bring quite different methodologies and findings to the issue of incarceration, we anticipate that this will be a particularly invigorating and productive exchange.

A session will consist of two or three papers, which will be available to participants prior to the session. The format will emphasize short presentations (20 minutes), followed by a comment on the paper from a scholar from the other field (10 minutes) and then general discussion.

Proposals should be sent by February 1, 2006.