SGER: A Workshop to Build Bridges Between Economists and Criminologists; College Park, MD; June 2005

如今，经济学家越来越多地参与犯罪研究。例如，经济学家现在定期在顶级期刊《犯罪学》（Criminology）上发表文章，他们也定期出现在国家研究委员会（National Research Council）处理犯罪问题的小组中。这次会议的目的是承认和鼓励经济学在犯罪学和犯罪经济学中越来越多的存在。当经济学家希望用观察数据来解决困难的因果问题时，优秀的犯罪学家与经济学家合作，将会创造出更好的犯罪研究。夏季研讨会是专门为经济学家和犯罪学家/社会学家之间的合作而设计的。邀请了两个领域的高级和初级学者，以便初级学者建立新的工作关系。即将上任的美国犯罪学学会主席GaryLafree同意在2006年11月举行的2006年美国犯罪学学会年会上主持一个“犯罪与经济学”系列会议，并邀请一位杰出的经济学家参加他的主席全体会议。组织者正在积极寻求获得经济学家和犯罪学家都感兴趣的行政数据，这些新数据将在会议上展示，并规定访问这些数据的研究团队必须是跨学科的。这是一个非常令人兴奋的提议，对犯罪学和犯罪经济学的重要领域具有潜在的巨大影响

Economists are now a growing presence in the study of crime. For example, economists now regularly publish in the top journal Criminology and they are also showing up regularly on National Research Council panels dealing with crime. This conference is designed to recognise and encourage the increased presence of economics in criminology and of crime in economics.Better research on crime will be created when good criminologists work with economists when they wish to tackle difficult causal questions with observational data.The summer workshop is designed specifically to enable collaborations between economists and criminologists/sociologists.Both senior and junior scholars from both fields have been invited, so that junior scholars can establish new working relationships. The incoming president of the American Society of Criminology, GaryLafree, has agreed to host a "crime and economics' series at the 2006 American Society of Criminology annual conference in November 2006 as well as pursue a prominent economist for one of hisPresidential Plenary sessions. The organisers are actively pursuing the acquisition of administrative data which would be of interest to both economists and criminologists and these new data will be presented at the conference, with the stipulation that research teams accessing the data must be interdisciplinary. This is a very exciting proposal, with potentially great impact on the important area of criminology and the economics of crime