Academic

?I?ve got nothing to hide?

Posted on July 20, 2010
I’m really glad that Daniel Solove (George Washington University) recently posted ” ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy” on SSRN. Now I can simply tell people to read this paper when they make this argument...

Building a more sustainable aristocracy

Posted on July 15, 2010
States have created more sustainable wealth for the rich by getting rid of the “rule against perpetuities” — What?! That thing that gave me fits to learn in law school? Next thing you know, they’ll be getting rid of the “The Rule in Shelley’s case”...

Death in American Jails

Posted on July 07, 2010
New: From 2000 through 2007, local jail administrators reported 8,110 inmate deaths in custody. Deaths in jails increased each year, from 905 in 2000 to 1,103 in 2007. The mortality rate per 100,000 local jail inmates declined from 152 deaths per 100,000 inmates to 141 per 100,000 between 2000 and 2007, while the jail inmate [...

Some thoughts on Empirical Legal Studies

Posted on July 07, 2010
On the Faculty Lounge here, and on Leiter Reports here. I may have something to say on these matters in the future, but the links suffice for now as I have a lot of grading to do and two (ELS) papers to finish. Filed under: Academia, Courts, Data, Jeff, Law, Methods, politics

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Creating your own degree?

Posted on June 30, 2010
Tim “4 Hour Workweek” Ferris considers the tuition costs versus tangible benefits – can a degree be replicated on your own by using your planned tuition money for other learning endeavors? Check it out here. Filed under: Academia, Jeff, Pop Culture

Identity Theft on the Rise

Posted on June 30, 2010
From BJS: The number of households with at least one member who experienced one or more types of identity theft increased 23% from 2005 to 2007. From 2005 to 2007, the number of households that experienced credit card theft increased by 31% and the number that experienced multiple types during the same episode increased by [...

New Data from JUSTSTATS

Posted on June 24, 2010
Women In Law Enforcement, 1987-2008: Presents data from the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) surveys, covering 1987 to 2007, and from the Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (FLEO), from 1996 to 2008. This data brief presents trends in the percent of law enforcement officers at the local, state, and federal level who [...

The Politics of Punishment: Doing Time in Hard Times

Posted on June 21, 2010
This is the title of a new APSA Working Group that will meet during this year’s meeting in DC. If you are not familiar with what a working group is, see the APSA description. Here is the description of the agenda for this group. For a link to the page and instructions for registering (you must [...

Old Commercials ? Flintstones edition

Posted on June 19, 2010
Something tells me that this one wouldn’t go over too well today … I’m just saying… [h//t CG via FB] Filed under: Jeff, Pop Culture

New Data on Immigration Prosecutions

Posted on June 16, 2010
From TRAC: After several months of moderation, U.S. federal immigration prosecutions have returned to the high levels of last summer. According to the most recent figures released by the Department of Justice, there were 8,287 immigration prosecutions in March 2010, up 30 percent from February and more than in any month since July 2009...

Say It Ain?t So?Dio!

Posted on June 14, 2010
RIP July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010 Back in 1980, I forgot to return my Columbia House Record Club notice and ended up receiving Black Sabbath?s ?The Mob Rules? in the mail as the monthly featured selection. It ended up being a great decision. This was my first introduction to Black Sabbath and the [...

Book deals ?

Posted on June 13, 2010
Not for us, mind you, but for these other blogs. Uggh, why can’t we be more popular Filed under: Jeff, Pop Culture

Politics and state punitiveness ?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Since Richard is guest blogging this summer, I thought it might be a good time to highlight some of our co-authored work. Below is the abstract of an article we wrote a while back; you can download the article here. We plan to do some follow up research on this topic in the near future...

?difficult and dysfunctional people in the workplace typically have an asymmetrical effect on group morale and job performance?

Posted on June 10, 2010
The Faculty Lounge Blog’s Jacqueline Lipton on Bad Apples here. Filed under: Jeff

Why American Idol Producers Should Take a Political Science Course

Posted on June 10, 2010
Even if you don’t watch American Idol (I admit I do), you can’t help but be aware that it is the most popular show on television. For contestants, winning the contest can transform an otherwise unknown amateur into an international celebrity...

Memorial Day Post ? just few minutes of your time

Posted on May 31, 2010
Dear Readers – please consider giving just a few minutes of your time to play on our Social Vibe widget (on the right column, just below the twittter feeds) to contribute to veterans. Thanks. Filed under: Jeff

Judith Warner on generation ?why worry??

Posted on May 30, 2010
Honestly, I don’t really quite know what to make of this – it’s either good news or very, very bad news. Here’s an excerpt But at a time when so many of their elders are struggling emotionally to keep their heads above water ? dealing with layoffs or the fear of layoffs, feeling the walls [...

Mass Imprisonment as a Public Health Concern?

Posted on May 27, 2010
At least that is the claim made by Christopher Wildeman, a sociologist at Yale University who has been conducting research on this topic for the last two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan. While political scientists are generally more interested in the politics of imprisonment, a much larger literature now exists on the ?spillover? or ?collateral? effects of the imprisonment boom in the United States...

Science Fiction lunch boxes

Posted on May 27, 2010
Normally, this sort of thing would fall within my twitter posts, but I couldn’t pass up providing the above pic of a “Planet of the Apes” lunch box. Note that it depicts the television show as opposed to the series of movies. I want this lunch box You can find the rest here...

Terrorism Enforcement Declines

Posted on May 25, 2010
New from TRAC: The dramatic post 9/11 surge in prosecutions that the government categorized as terrorism has undergone a four-fold decline, according to TRAC’s analysis of data from the Department of Justice. The data show that terrorism and internal security filings in court have dropped from an average of about 100 a month at their [...

On the relative wealth of presidents

Posted on May 25, 2010
The relative wealth of US presidents is outlined here. Surely there is an empirical study here somewhere — there are some problems in that this apparently looks at their wealth at the time of their death or maybe at different times – it’s interesting though...

Don?t Forget Taxes When Weighing Job Options

Posted on May 24, 2010
When Jeff asked me to guest blog for Voir Dire, I decided that my first post would be the recent article by Jalbert, et al, which ranks university salary packages after adjusting for the local cost of living. Of course, Andy beat me to the punch on that, but after reading the article more closely I realized that perhaps there is more to think about here...

Guest blogger ? Richard Fording

Posted on May 23, 2010
I am pleased to welcome professor Richard Fording of the University of Kentucky to Voir Dire as a guest blogger. He is a c0-author and graduate school classmate of mine. But, despite these disadvantages, he has made quite a name for himself in state politics and public policy...

Travel well

Posted on May 15, 2010
Here’s some interesting advice on traveling and living on a budget – I should probably read it twice (Check out the resource links at the end) Filed under: Jeff, Pop Culture, Uncategorized

A Nightmare During a Perfect Storm on Wall Street

Posted on May 12, 2010
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c A Nightmare on Wall Street www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Filed under: Andy, Policy

Ranking Universities by Cost of Living and Compensation

Posted on May 11, 2010
Yay! From Jalbert, et al.: In this paper we rank 574 universities based on compensation paid to their faculty. The analysis examines universities both on a raw basis and on a cost of living adjusted basis. Rankings based on salary data and benefit data are presented...

Sex, marriage, and divorce ? red/blue style

Posted on May 01, 2010
In the National Journal Magazine, Jonathan Rauch discusses a new book on such socioeconomic trends in the states – Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, by Naomi Cahn and June Carbon (Oxford University Press)...

On the relationship between doctors and insurance companies

Posted on April 30, 2010
The NY Times carries an intriguing story on the increasingly uneasy relationship between doctors and the insurance companies who pay for their services. This comes on the heels of a revealing study which indicates that doctors are not pleased with the way their ability to practice medicine is affected by third parties...

Does this look familiar?

Posted on April 28, 2010
Hopefully it does not look familiar to you, but I’m guessing that you get some emails with the same tone. You can see the rest of the exchange here. Filed under: Academia, Jeff, Uncategorized

CFP: Papers on Race and American Institutions

Posted on April 27, 2010
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JSSW). A special issue of the JSSW will explore the role of race in the United States in light of William Julius Wilson?s classic, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions...

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