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How do we decide how to allocate criminal justice resources in a way that minimizes the social harms from both crime and policy efforts to control crime? How, for that matter, do we decide how much to spend on the criminal justice system and crime control generally, versus other pressing needs? These questions are at the heart of benefit-cost analysis.

Since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, great strides have been made in the areas of child protection and advocacy. However, the concept of children, and specifically adolescents, as functional and engaged citizens has also emerged. Through the guidance and recognition of adults, children can participate in deliberative democracy as legitimate and competent citizens. This citizenship, like that of adults, can be used to enrich and improve local communities by creating a sense of ownership and fairness. Dr.

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Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.

Since the implementation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, thousands of abused women have faced complex litigation after seeking safety in the United States. Many have been court ordered to return their to the country from which they fled and often to their abusive partners custody. The presenters discussed the findings of an NIJ-funded study focusing on the experiences of women who as victims of domestic violence in another country, come to the U.S.

Professor Christopher Stone recently completed a study of police-on-police shootings as part of a task force he chaired in New York State. He reported on his findings and recommendations, exploring the role of race in policing decisions, methods to improve training and tactics to defuse police-on-police confrontations before they become fatal, and methods to improve the investigations of such shootings.

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Laurence Tribe, Senior Counselor for Access to Justice Initiative, U.S. Department of Justice

Cindy Southworth discusses how technology is a new tool that abusers are misusing in their harassment, threats and stalking.

John Lazet, Chief of Staff, The Office of Senator Alan Cropsey (Mich.), at the 2010 NIJ Conference

In this interview conducted at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference 2011, Michel Moore, Director of the Office of Special Operations, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, California, discusses the benchmarks of successful and effective collaboration between researchers and law enforcement.

Karen D. Carroll, Associate Director, Bronx Sexual Assault Response Team, New York, at the 2010 NIJ Conference

Rebecca Campbell, Professor, Michigan State University