Working Papers

Listed on this page are working papers and other work-related documents from individuals who are affiliated with the
Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. To download a .pdf document, click on the title.
If a listing is not available to directly download, it is necessary to contact its senior author.

Richard Berk, Professor of Criminology and Statistics

[01002] 19-Nov-07 Overdispersion and Poisson Regression, with John MacDonald
[01003] 29-Nov-07 Forecasting Murder Within a Population of Probationers and Parolees: A High Stakes Application of Statistical Learning, with Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes, Ellen Kurtz and Lindsay Ahlman
[01004] 17-Jan-07 How You Can Tell If The Simulations In Computational Criminology Are Any Good
[01005] 31-Jul-07 Some Thoughts on Estimating the Size of Hidden Populations: The Special Case of Forced Labor
[01006] 30-Sep-07 Boosting the Quantile Distrubution: A Cost-Sensitive Statistical Learning Procedure, with Brian Kriegler
[01007] 14-Nov-07 The Dynamics of Crime Regimes, with John MacDonald
[01008] 03-Jan-08 On Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores, with David A. Freedman (download via UC Berkeley Department Statistics)
[01009] 17-Jan-08 Forecasting Methods in Crime and Justice
[01010] 27-Mar-08 Recent Perspectives on the Regression Discontinuity Design

John MacDonald, Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology

[03001] 23-Aug-07 Assessing the Effects of Gang Membership on Victimization Using Doubly Robust Propensity Score Modeling, with Greg Ridgeway, Angela R. Grover and Wesley G. Jennings
[03002] 23-Aug-07 Race, Neighborhood Context, and Perceptions of Injustice by the Police
[03003] 29-Nov-07 Assessing the Relationship Between Violent and Nonviolent Criminal Activity Among Serious Youthful Offenders
[03004] 19-Nov-07 A Developmental Approach for Measuring the Seriousness of Crimes, with Rajeev Ramchand, Amelia Haviland and Andrew R. Morral.
[03005] 29-Nov-07 Assessing the Effect of Community-Based Substance Use Treatment on Dimensions of Criminal Involvement.

Laurie Robinson, Director, Master of Science Program in Criminology

[06001] 24-Apr-07 Congressional Testimony (April 24, 2007): U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
[06002] 21-Mar-07 Congressional Testimony (March 21, 2007): U.S. House of Representatives Appropriation Subcommittee Hearing (same testimony as above)
[06003] 03-Dec-07 Guggenheim Symposium – Crime in America Luncheon Address: Why Crime WIl be an Issue in the 2008 Election

Lawrence Sherman, Director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology

[06001] 20-Apr-07 Testimony (April 20, 2007): The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

Susan Sorenson, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy

[09001] 23-Aug-07 Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Abusers: Handgun Purchase Applications and Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, with Katherine A. Vittes. In press with the American Journal of Public Health. AJPH does not allow authors to post manuscripts online prior to publication. Expected publication date: May 2008.
[09002] 10-May-07 Congressional Testimony (May 10, 2007): U.S. House of Representatives, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Domestic Policy Subcommittee Hearing.
[09003] 23-Aug-07 Intervention on Behalf of Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: Assessment of Support in a Diverse Community-based Sample with Catherine Taylor. The published version of the paper can be found at Child Abuse and Neglect, 2007; 31:1155-68
[09004] 23-Aug-07 “We’ve Got a Gun?”: Comparing Reports of Adolescents and their Parents about Household Firearms with Philip J. Cook. The published version of the paper can be found at Journal of Community Psychology, 2008; 36: 1-19.
[09005] 08-Feb-08 Restraining orders among victims of intimate partner homicide, with Katherine A. Vittes. In press at Injury Prevention. Injury Prevention does not allow authors to post articles online prior to publication. Expected release in 2008.
[09006] 11-Feb-08 Weapons and Intimate Partner Violence, chapter in C. Mitchell, D. Anglin (eds.), Intimate Partner Violence: A Health Based Approach. Oxford University Press. Expected release: October 2008.
[09007] 11-Feb-08 Mental health and firearms in community-based surveys: Implications for suicide prevention, with Katherine A. Vittes. Evaluation Review, in press. Expected release: June 2008.

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