DATE & LOCATION

GUEST SPEAKER

SEMINAR TITLE

Friday, Sept. 9, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101

Robert Brame**

Associate Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
University of South Carolina

Scarlet Letters and Recidivism: Does An Old Criminal Record Predict Future Offending?

Friday Sept. 16, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101

David Ribar

Professor of Economics
George Washington University

Breaking Up the Empty Nest: Implications for Grown Children

Friday Sept. 30, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101

Guillermina Jasso

Professor of Sociology
New York University

A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Processes

Friday Oct. 21, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101

Audrey Singer

Immigration Fellow
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program

Examining the Causes of Immigrant Growth in New Metropolitan Destinations

Wednesday Nov. 2, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101
Please note special day.

Steven Raphael**

Associate Professor
Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

The Effect of Male Incarceration Dynamics on AIDS infection Rates Among African-American Women and Men,
(coauthored with Rucker Johnson)

Thursday Nov. 10, 2005
12 pm
Art/Sociology Bldg
Room 1101
Please note special day.

Myron P. Gutmann

Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR);
Professor of History, University of Michigan

Making the Most of our Data: The Data Sharing for Demographic Research Project (Special Seminar on Datasets)

POSTPONED

Mark Cohen**

Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise,
Owen Graduate School of Management,
Vanderbilt University

Prevention, Crime Control or Cash? Public Preferences towards Criminal Justice Spending Priorities

**Co-Sponsored with the Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy