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Robert J.
MacCoun
, a psychologist, is Professor of Public Policy and Law at Goldman School
of Public Policy and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Previously, he was Behavioral Scientist at RAND from 1986-93, where he is
now a consultant. Professor MacCoun’s work on street-level drug dealing
in Washington, DC, European drug policies, harm reduction, and other drug
policy topics has appeared in Science, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of
Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and
American Psychologist. His research on jury decision making and civil
litigation has appeared in Science, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, Law & Society Review, Law & Human Behavior,
and The Handbook of Psychology and Law. Professor MacCoun’s current
work examines bias in the interpretation of research results (Annual Review
of Psychology, 1998). He has testified before Congress and given
policy briefings to many government officials in the US and Europe, and is
a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee on drug policy research.
Peter Reuter, an economist, is Professor of Public
Policy, School of Public Affairs and Department of Criminology, University
of Maryland. He founded the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, directed
it from 1989 to 1993. and continues to serve there as a consultant.
Professor Reuter is currently editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee
on Law and Justice and has served on two Institute of Medicine panels.
His early research focused on the organization of illegal markets and resulted
in the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand
(MIT Press, 1983), which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding
book of the year in criminology and criminal justice. Recent papers
have appeared in Addiction, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, American
Journal of Public Health, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and
Science. He testifies frequently before Congress and has addressed
senior policy audiences in many countries, including Australia, Chile, Columbia
and Great Britain. He has served as a consultant to numerous government
agencies.
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