Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union
Host: Ray Paternoster Memorial Fund and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Speaker: Steven Raphael, Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy, UC-Berkeley
On Thursday, May 16 the Ray Paternoster Memorial Fund and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice will host the inaugural lecture and reception to honor Professor Ray Paternoster and celebrate his life, scholarship to the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and to the profession.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Memorial Bench Unveiling, LeFrak Hall, Main Entrance
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Lecture, Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Reception, Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union
Speaker: Steven Raphael, Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy, UC-Berkeley
Please RSVP by Friday, May 10, 2019. RSVP here.
Additional gifts in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster can be made to: go.umd.edu/paternoster
Questions? Contact Lauren Grant Campbell at lgrant@umd.edu
About the speaker:
Steven Raphael is a Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and holds the James D. Marver Chair at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. His most recent research focuses on the social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates and racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. Raphael also works on immigration policy, research questions pertaining to various aspects of racial inequality, the economics of labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing. Raphael is the author (with Michael Stoll) of Why Are so Many Americans in Prison? (published by the Russell Sage Foundation Press) and The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research). Raphael is research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the California Policy Lab, the University of Michigan National Poverty Center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, IZA, Bonn Germany, and the Public Policy Institute of California. Raphael holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.
