The evidence on crime and policing

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Texas A&M's Jennifer Doleac joins Matt to explain what we know (and don't know) about criminal justice. Resources: "How to Fix Policing" by Jennifer Doleac, Niskanen Center "How to Make a Police Force More Diverse" by Jennifer Doleac, Bloomberg "Changing Police Recruitment Messages Attracts a Larger and More Diverse Applicant Pool" by Jennifer Doleac, CCJ "Making Fair and Respected Cops: Procedural Justice Training in Chicago Proves Successful" by Jennifer Doleac, CCJ "Encouraging desistance from crime" by Jennifer Doleac "The Unintended Consequences of “Ban the Box”: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories Are Hidden" by Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M) & Benjamin Hansen (Univ. or Oregon) Guest: Jennifer Doleac (@jenniferdoleac), Economics professor, Texas A&M / Host of the Probable Causation podcast Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.0	risk of loss. Today's show I was able to sit down with Jennifer Doliak who is a professor at
1:20.4	Texas A&M. She's the host of a great podcast called probable causation. As you can tell from
1:25.2	the name, she's really into criminal justice issues, policing issues, being scrupulous about
1:30.6	evidence and causation and understanding what we really know. We set down to talk about data on
1:36.5	policing, what we know about reforms at work, what we know about recidivism that works, what we know
1:41.7	about law enforcement that works, and the frustrating fact that in a lot of these areas, like our
1:46.9	aspirations to build a better world, they just run ahead of what we really know. So how we can think
1:53.0	about finding better evidence. So you're going to learn a lot here and also I think learn a lot
1:58.0	about how we can learn even more in the future.
2:02.8	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. My name is
2:18.0	Matthew Glacias. I'm here today with a guest Jennifer Doliak. She is an economics professor at
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