Illinois Family Impact Seminar #1
What Works in Reducing Crime: A Family Perspective for State Policymaking
February 23, 2006
Featured Speakers
Steve Aos, Acting Director, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
Using Taxpayer Dollars Wisely: What Works (and What Does Not) to Reduce Crime
Patrick Tolan, Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research in the Deptartment of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago
Family Focused Prevention of Delinquency and Crime: It Works!
Suan George, Senior Researcher at the Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
Research on Incarcerated Women and Their Children
Mike Lawlor, State Representative, State of Connecticut
Legislative Policy Ideas: Justice Reinvestment in Connecticut and Other States
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