13TH ANNUAL HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA JUSTICE IN THE HEARTLAND FEBRUARY 15TH AND 16TH, 2018 JOHN JAY COLLEGE 524 W. 59TH STREET NEW YORK, NY AGENDA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 All Thursday panels take place in the Moot Court, John Jay College, 6th Floor of the new building 8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 12:30 – 2:30pm LUNCH for Fellows and invited guests only 9:00 – 9:30am WELCOME THE WHITE HOUSE PRISON Stephen Handelman, Director, Center on Media REFORM INITIATIVES Crime and Justice, John Jay College Mark Holden, Senior VP and General Counsel, Daniel F. Wilhelm, President, Harry Frank Koch Industries Guggenheim Foundation 2:30 – 4:00pm Karol V. Mason, President, John Jay College PANEL 3: of Criminal Justice CRIME TRENDS 2017-2018— 9:30 – 11:00am IS THE HOMICIDE ‘SPIKE’ REAL? PANEL 1: OPIATES— Thomas P. Abt, Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (PART 1) Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, José Diaz-Briseño, Washington correspondent, Carnegie Mellon University La Reforma, Mexico Shytierra Gaston, Assistant Professor, Department Paul Cell, First Vice President, International of Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington Association of Chiefs of Police; Chief of Police, Montclair State University (NJ) Richard Rosenfeld, Founders Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University Rita Noonan, Chief, Health Systems and Trauma of Missouri - St. Louis Systems Branch, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention MODERATOR Cheri Walter, Chief Executive Officer, The Ohio Robert Jordan Jr, former anchor, Chicago WGN-TV Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities MODERATOR 4:00 – 4:15pm BREAK Kevin Johnson, journalist, USA Today 4:15 – 6:00pm 11:00am – 12:30pm PANEL 4: CORRECTIONS / PANEL 2: OPIATES— SENTENCING REFORM UPDATE THE BATTLE SO FAR (PART 2) Leann Bertsch, President, Association of State Correctional Administrators; Director, North Dakota The Hon. Judith Claire, (ret) Chatauqua County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (NY) Family Treatment Court Director, Public Safety Performance The Hon. Craig Hannah, Presiding judge, “Opiate Adam Gelb, Project, Pew Charitable Trusts Treatment Court”, Buffalo Director, Health and Addiction Scott Higham, Washington Post Kathleen F. Maurer, Services and Medical Director of the Connecticut Brandon del Pozo, Chief of Police, Burlington VT Department of Correction Joseph Rannazzisi, former Deputy Assistant Vikrant Reddy, Senior Research Fellow, Administrator of Office of Diversion Control, DEA Charles Koch Institute John Chapman Young, Senior Assistant Attorney David Singleton, Director, Ohio Justice & Policy Center General, Cherokee Nation MODERATOR MODERATOR Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, Department Stephen Handelman, Director, CMCJ of Law & Police Science, John Jay FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 All sessions unless otherwise noted, take place in the 9th floor conference room, John Jay, new building 8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST STORY LABS for fellows and invited guests only 9:00 – 10:30am PANEL 5: CORRECTING ERROR— 1:30 – 3:00pm CAN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COVERING SEXUAL ASSAULTS: FIX ITS MISTAKES? WHAT’S NEWS? WHAT ISN’T? Brooklyn, NY DA Eric Gonzalez, FACILITATORS Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, Barbara Cassidy, Playwright, Adjunct Professor, Kim Ogg, DA Harris County, Texas John Jay College Associate Professor of Linguistic MODERATOR Shonna Trinch, Anthropology, John Jay College Paul Heaton, Research Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice 3:00 – 3:15pm BREAK 10:30 – 10:45am BREAK 3:15 – 4:15pm PRIVACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: 10:45am – 12pm IS THERE A RIGHT TO BE PANEL 6: UNDERSTANDING THE “FORGOTTEN” ONLINE? UNDERGROUND GUN MARKET Philip Cook, Professor Emeritus, Duke University FACILITATORS David Hureau, Assistant Professor, State University Bruce Shapiro, Director, DART Center on of New York, Albany Trauma and Journalism Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology Miranda S. Spivack, Pulliam Distinguished Visiting and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research Professor of Journalism at DePauw University at Northwestern University Kimberley Smith, Research Manager, The Crime 4:15 – 4:30pm BREAK Lab, University of Chicago MODERATOR 4:30 – 6:00pm Mark Obbie, journalist FINAL WRAP (with Fellows) FACILITATORS 12:00 – 1:30pm Joe Domanick, CMCJ staff, Conference Speakers WORKING LUNCH THE YEAR IN CRIME COVERAGE for Fellows and invited guests only Moot Court, 6th Floor Rubén Rosario, Criminal Justice Journalists Panelist / Speakers Thomas P. Abt Alfred Blumstein Thomas Abt is a Senior Fellow at both the Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., is the J. Erik Jons- Harvard Law and Kennedy Schools, where he son University Professor of Urban Systems teaches, studies, and writes on the use of ev- and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon idence-informed approaches to reducing gun, University. Prof. Blumstein’s research over gang, and youth violence, among other topics. the past 20 years has covered many aspects Abt also serves as a member of the Campbell of criminal justice phenomena and policy, in- Collaboration’s Criminal Justice Advisory cluding crime measurement, criminal careers, Board and as an Advisory Board Member to sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison the Police Executive Programme at the Univer- populations, demographic trends, juvenile sity of Cambridge. Before joining Harvard, Abt violence, and drug-enforcement policy. A past served as Deputy Secretary for Public Safety to president of the American Society of Crimi- Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, where nologists and one of the country’s most re- he oversaw all criminal justice and homeland nowned criminal justice scholars, he has been security agencies. Before his work as Deputy one of the most popular speakers at John Jay/ Secretary, Abt served as Chief of Staff to the Guggenheim Symposia. Among his most re- Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Depart- cent accomplishments, he headed the National ment of Justice, where he worked with the na- Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), tion’s principal criminal justice grant-making a multi-university initiative funded by the Na- and research agencies to integrate evidence, tional Science Foundation and headquartered policy, and practice. at the Heinz College. Leann Bertsch Barbara Cassidy Leann Bertsch, president of the Association of Barbara Cassidy received her MFA Playwrit- State Correctional Administrators (ASCA), has ing from Brooklyn College. Her play, Interim, been Director of North Dakota’s Department of (nominated for the Barrie Stavis Award) pre- Corrections and Rehabilitation since July 2005. miered at SMU (Dallas) in March 2012, and She served as the Commissioner of the North is published in the anthology, New Downtown Dakota Department of Labor from September Now. Her work has been seen in New York at 2004 through June 2005. Prior to entering state The Flea Theatre, Playwrights’ Horizons, Little government, Ms. Bertzh was Assistant State’s Theatre at Dixon Place, The New York Interna- Attorney for Burleigh County (1996-2004) an- tional Fringe Festival, JACK and Bric Studios. dan attorney for Legal Assistance of North Da- She is a 2015 MacDowell Fellow and was a kota (1992-1996). She retired as a Major in the 2010-2011 LMCC Workspace Artist. She has Judge Advocate General’s Corp of the North received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Coun- Dakota National Guard in 2007 after 21 years cil and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is of service. She earned a Juris Doctor from the an affiliated artist with New Georges, and is an University of North Dakota School of Law and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Crimi- a Bachelor of Science degree from North Da- nal Justice. She teaches the class Seeing Rape kota State University. with Shonna Trinch which looks at ideas, ac- tions, uses, and depictions of rape in our world. She is working on a book project with Shonna Trinch stemming from the Seeing Rape course venile Justice and Child Welfare (2015). She is and is heading up the Sexual Justice NOW the author of the Bench Book Guide for Family initiative at John Jay. Her latest play is called Court Judges, written in association with Fam- “Mrs. Loman,” and is a feminist imagining of ily Court Judge Philip Cortese of Montgomery what could happen to someone like Linda Lo- County. Judge Claire retired as a Family Court man from Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Sales- Judge in June 2016 and is currently approved man” after her husband Willy commits suicide. in NYS as a Judicial Hearing Officer. Paul Cell Philip J. Cook Chief Paul Cell is First Vice President Interna- Philip J. Cook, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus tional Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) of public policy, economics, and sociology at and incoming president. A 37-year veteran of Duke University. Much of his research has fo- law enforcement, he has served as the chief of cused on understanding how and why to sepa- police at the Montclair State University Police rate guns from violence through effective regu- Department in New Jersey since 2001. Chief lation and law enforcement. He is author or co- Cell is a member and past president of the New author of books on alcohol control (Paying the Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police Tab), state lotteries Selling Hope, the increas- (NJSACOP) and chairman of the New Jersey ing inequality of income (The Winner-Take-All Police Chiefs Foundation. He is a graduate of Society, a New York Times “Notable Book of the FBI National Academy, FBI LEEDS, the the year”), the economic costs of gun violence, IACP National Law Enforcement Leadership, and, with Kristin Goss, The Gun Debate: What and Institute on Violence Against Women. Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2004). He He has also worked and trained internation- has served as a consultant with the US Depart- ally through programs with the South African ment of Justice Criminal Division and the US Police Services, the Royal Canadian Mounted Department of Treasury Enforcement Divi- Police, the Ontario Police Chiefs, and at the sion.