Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research: Workshop Summary (2003)

9:00-9:15 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks

Charles Wellford, Chair, Committee on Law and Justice

Colin Loftin, Workshop Chair

Andrew A. White, Director, Committee on National Statistics

Carol V. Petrie, Director, Committee on Law and Justice

Session One

9:15-9:45 a.m.

Sensitive Questions in Survey Research

Paper by Roger Tourangeau and Madeline E. McNeeley, Joint Program in Survey Methods, University of Maryland, College Park Presented by Madeline E. McNeeley

Comment

Judith Lessler

Research Triangle Institute

James Walker

University of Wisconsin, Madison

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Q&A/Discussion

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

Session Two

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Small Area Estimation

T.E. Raghunathan, Survey Methodology Program, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor

Comment

Elizabeth Stasny, Ohio State University, Columbus

Charles Manski, Northwestern University

11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Q&A/Discussion

12:00-2:00 p.m.

Working Lunch

Charles Wellford, University of Maryland, College Park

Session Three

2:00-2:30 p.m.

Comparison of Self-Report and Official Data

Terence P. Thornberry, School of Criminal Justice, and Marvin D. Krohn, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany

Comment

David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Laura Dugan

Georgia State University

Alfred Blumstein

Carnegie Mellon University

3:00-3:15 p.m.

Q&A/Discussion

3:15-3:30 p.m.

Break

Session Four

3:30-4:00 p.m.

Measuring Rare Events in Small Populations

Richard McCleary, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

4:00-4:30 p.m.

Comment

James Lynch, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC

4:30-4:45 p.m.

Q&A/Discussion

4:45-5:30 p.m.

General Discussion

5:30 p.m.

Reception and Dinner