"Nobel Prize" Winner in Criminology Visits Campus

In this photo: Minister for Police, the Hon Paul Hollow MLC and Professor Blumstein.

Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy and Management was honoured to welcome Professor Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former Dean of the Heinz School (1986-1993), to its Adelaide campus on Monday the 7th July 2008.

Winner of the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology – the Nobel Prize of Criminologists, Professor Blumstein gave a lecture to Carnegie Mellon students, that included senior police officials such as the Ministers of Police, the Hon Paul Holloway MLC, and Deputy Commissioner for South Australia, Gary Burns.

Professor Blumstein's research over the past twenty years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence and drug-enforcement policy. He is also the Director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at the Heinz School.

Professors Blumstein explained that seven out of eight crimes are committed by repeat offenders in the U.S. and that teaching people to be better parents would do more to cut crime than sending young offenders to prison.

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