| Shawn
Bushway
Associate
Professor
(518)
591-8738
SBushway@uamail.albany.edu
Ph.D.
(1996) Carnegie Mellon University
The
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy
and Management
Public Policy Analysis and Political Economy
B.S. (1989) University of Notre
Dame
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Dr. Bushway's CV
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Shawn
Bushway is a criminologist with a background
in public policy, economics and statistics.
In all of his research, he attempts to a) think
about policy relevance and b) empirically identify
causal relationships, usually with quasi-experimental
techniques.
One
broad substantive area of interest is desistance
from crime. Shawn has focused on measuring desistance
and developing methods to study the causal factors
driving desistance using panel data from the
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the
Rochester Youth Development Study. He has also
conducted research on the process of reentry,
and the role of work (and work restrictions)
on offender reentry. This research involves
study of the stigmatic impact of a criminal
history record and of the efficacy of crime
prevention programs based in the labor market.
Recent work has attempted to assess how long
an ex-offender has to remain arrest-free before
he “looks like” a non-offender.
A
second substantive interest involves the sentencing
process. The criminal justice system has multiple
actors who interact to create a sentencing outcome.
Modeling the location and allocation of discretion
within that system is an interesting and important
research endeavor. Recently, Shawn has begun
to study the impact of incarceration on offending
over the life course, a topic that combines
his two interests.
For
additional information on Economics and Crime
see: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/criminologyandeconomics/home.shtml
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