The Brookings Institution will host a forum and release three new papers focusing on crime and incarceration in the United States. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin will deliver opening remarks, and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) will join the forum to discuss the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014, which was recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with bi-partisan support.
Panels will feature leading policymakers and practitioners, including Dean Esserman, New Haven chief of police; Elizabeth Glazer, director of the Office of Criminal Justice for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; Cristine DeBerry, chief of staff for the district attorney for the city and county of San Francisco; and Robert Listenbee, administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the U.S. Department of Justice. Academic experts Daniel Nagin, professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University and co-editor of Criminology and Public Policy, and Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University and an internationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence, will also join the discussion.
Register and get more details at the Brookings website. There will also be a webcast.